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Edit: Replaced "Restrictions" in place of the word "Ban"

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[–] Thoven@lemdro.id 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Does anyone know how graphine performs on foldables? The big reason I haven't just switched to it is a healthy skepticism about it's ability to handle the two screens well.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

No plan required, as I'm not using stock Android of any kind.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I low key wish I could go back to a flip phone.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I wish more people were sending talking using text-based packet radios. Much harder to censor. No ISP needed, just need one radio-enthusiast in each area to set up repeaters and you can talk to people far away. Like just ignore cell towers everyone gets a meshtastic. Fuck the reliance on corporate infrastructure.

What is it, the government put up a firewall? Haha, radio waves in the air go brrrrr across the border.

Too bad the current state of thing is that meshtastic is only has people sending test messages to each other or a small excusive club of friends, and ham radio or gmrs are all old conservatives who are already acquaintances. Not really useful as a open forum for strangers talking to each other.

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[–] dataprolet@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I don't get how this would impact de-Googled phones like GrapheneOS?

It won’t apply to GrapheneOS. It only applies to certified OSes and GrapheneOS is not certified because it doesn’t license Google Mobile Services.

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[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago

Probably just register as a hobby developer and in worst case scenario sign apps I build from source with my own key and install them on my own devices, in case the original developer is not registered. None of the information I give google is new, they know all of that probably long time ago, and I don't plan to distribute apps, just install them myself.

This seems like a macOS system where you can install apps from outside of Apple Store, but it still needs to be a registered developer. It's not THAT bad, as it may initially look like. Just remember the old Android Marketplace with tons of shady fart and flashlight apps.

But, I bet there will be a root workaround for that so... no worries. Root, disable, hide root, enjoy like nothing happened.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Source for this ban claim?

I know there is a ban on not being able to install unsigned apps, but it won't limit apps to only Google Play apps.

Please, while the whole situation is BS, adding complete misinformation to the mix isn't going to help.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 0 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It never fails to amuse me how confidently wrong some people can be when they don't even read what they link to.

Because, you know, if you did read that link, you'd know how wrong you were.

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