I always wondered why samsung phones and tvs had that “vivid” high contrast color tuning turned on by default that just blows out the contrast and saturation. I thought surely no one actually prefers this kind of look. Reading some of the comments on here and on youtube, now I understand.

Two 5090s for this shit lol. The first 5090 calculates all the shadows and then the second 5090 takes it back out again lmao. What a fucking joke.

Yes, however, the article is titled “F-Droid Security Issues”, not “F-Droid FOSS Issues”. I’m not sure why anyone would read that and say “well what about the four freedoms?”. That’s not what the article is talking about.

ultimately conclude that its premise is inherently flawed regardless of implementation details

In terms of security, which is true.

aside from a bizarre claim that F-Droid supporting multiple repositories is a Bad Thing because it interferes with, and I quote, “UserManager which can be used to prevent a user from installing third-party apps” - what does this have to do with privacy?

It doesn’t. It’s a security issue.

Just allow devs to upload their own build with their own keys like Accrescent. It’s not like the whole “audit” system is meaningful anyways.

It’s true, F-droid’s signature doesn’t provide any meaningful security guarantees.

Yes, well, everything they say about F-Droid and Firefox is more or less true.

I can’t imagine people would be “all over” highguard even if it had mod and server support.

I believe the right text is 頭巾, so “頭巾は私のおともだち。私に安らぎを与えてくれるの” something like “this hoodie is my friend, it comforts me”

Turns out that if you want to have similar performance as a non-GC language you use about 3 times as much RAM compared to the non-GC language.

How does this work with respect to your previous comparison with iOS now that the iPhone 17 comes with 8GB RAM? Are you implying that no Android phones will reach performance parity with iPhones until they start shipping with 24GB RAM?

FydeOS is ChromeOS based, not android - in that area there’s brunch as well, which is closer to what’s officially distributed. I believe you are correct to assume that x86 android that you can just install on your own is not really a thing anymore.

wrong country 😅

cutting it from seconds to milliseconds.

Who in the world is in that much of a hurry to continue using their phone 😅

Nicks and Russel Mocs both have models with zippers and they are about as quality as they come.

I’m playing through it now and the virtual tourism comparison is bang on. I personally don’t mind the repetitive gameplay so I’m still having a good time with it the rest of it though.

You are likely thinking of google play protect, which does the same verification on their platform’s end (to try to remove bad actor developer accounts as soon as possible), and the local device end as well (to remove said developers apps if they are already installed on your device). But yes, at the base level, what arrives on your phone from the play store are just signed apk files. That’s why mirror sites like apkmirror or apkpure can do what they do, by extracting said apks after they have been released onto the play store.

The signing step you see at the end of each revanced install will require a registered google developer account going forward. The question of who will be brave enough to submit their real life information to sign revanced apps, as well as how long those accounts will last are anyone’s guess.

How is this going to be enforced if you are just downloading apks? It states they will enforce verification across sources outside of the play store. This doesn’t sound possible unless they just make stock android unable to side load

apks will have to be cryptographically signed through Google’s developer console, and this signature will be checked by the operating system at install time regardless of where you got the apk from. It’s like how windows has signed applications for smartscreen, except in this case all applications must be signed through Google, and in order to sign it, you have to let Google know where you live, and unsigned applications will simply be denied instead of just being presented with a warning.

In the article:

TL;DR

Here’s a first look at the Desktop Android version of Google Chrome, which supports browser extensions.

Extension support is pretty rudimentary at the moment, but Google is hard at work making it better.

The Desktop Android version of Chrome is intended for Chromebooks and PCs that run Android and not phones or tablets.

The distinction is significant, because there is no support for hardware keyboard and mouse in firefox for android, which makes it difficult to use for Chromebooks and PCs that run Android.

“Every sub on Reddit is like a HS drama fest” is too true. I’m not interested in the drama. What I’m interested in is the fact that Mr Threat Interactive has admitted to not knowing what the fuck he was talking about regarding anything related to graphics and engine design a year ago, put out a video titled “graphics are being murdered” just a few months after, and now thinks the entire industry is out to get him after being put in his place by people who do actually have experience in this niche field because he thinks his facebook boomer tier research is just as good as their experience. This guy is the anti vax of video games.

Please, Unsubscribe from Threat Interactive.

It still has an extremely charming aesthetic that’s still hard to find anywhere else.

It’s also a compiled blob, which is wonderful news if you were developing closed source software. You don’t have to work around javascript with pesky obfuscation tricks to protect your intellectual property anymore! ♥️