This level of data gathering shouldn’t even be legal to begin with. Lawmakers are two decades behind still.

If I understand well, even if you were able to install F-droid through the store (which you can’t because Google doesn’t like it), you won’t be able to install apps with F-droid anyway if they implement this.

Again, I never called you a shill. You just made it all up yourself. You just said it yourself you’re not even disagreeing with my precision. And yet you still cling to the delusion that this precision was an attack somehow and used it as justification to insult me multiple times.

Just because I didn’t return those insults doesn’t mean I’m going to keep taking them. There is no point repeating myself any further. You’re blocked now. You seem more interested in attacking and insulting an imaginary version of myself so you won’t miss me anyway.

All I did is expand on the other negative side effects of this measure that weren’t mentioned so people know that the consequences might much worse than what you lead on. This is by no means an accusation, more like a much needed precision as whether you like it your not your statement was downplaying the consequences Google’s actions even if you weren’t aware of it at the time.

You immediately took that as a personal attack and accusation of being a shill. Go read back my original comment and see I did nothing of the sort and simply provides additional info. I’m getting pretty tired of those poorly disguised and uncalled for insults you’ve been throwing my way ever since too.

Go sleep over it and read this all again with a rested head.

You say that people who use degoogled phones will be unaffected by this measure and downplayed the impact those measures will have on them. My point is that they will be hurt by it regardless.

If Google makes side loading of apps impossible unless you have a degoogled phone, projects that need side loading to function like F-Droid and other open source apps that do things Google doesn’t like will see their already small user base collapse to only the niche audience that has a degoogled phone. I don’t expect those projects and apps to maintain the level of support they currently have if it is for such a reduced audience.

As a bare minimum it is a blatant attempt by Google to gain even more control over the entire Android ecosystem and I would absolutely not say that we should wait and see where this is going like you did.

That will still significantly hinder the development of independent apps if only a small niche proportion of people can install them.

Hypocritical corporate virtue signaling at best

The way we split them is still purely arbitrary though. We could have metric time that uses multiples of 10 just by adjusting the duration of a second accordingly and adjusting how we divide time in a day.

Days of the calendar would be more challenging. But it’s still possible to make something much more workable I’m sure of it.

Samsung make shit appliances that are particularly non-repairable anyway.

That sounds pretty good.

The main reason why I ditched Mint was because I wanted to run the latest KDE Plasma 6. This will make Mint a legit option again for me.

Picking up a few pages out of Elmo’s book I see. He forgot the part where he distracts from the blatant underdelivery with more empty exaggerated promises!

I gave the F-droid app Automation a try. It definitely lacks the functionality and refinement that Macrodroid has but it can work in a pinch.

Key Mapper on F-Droid fills in a few gaps as well for anything that uses button presses as a trigger.

May I ask how you got that patched version and how you can trust it?

It wasn’t always this bad. It never was perfect. It used to have a few crash reporting, analytics and ad trackers from the beginning. They snuck in more profiling trackers in 2023. Then back in June they added a fuckton of trackers in the version 5.55.9 update. I just noticed it now. This app is dead to me now.

Macrodroid sold out and became spyware crammed with trackers that send data to dozens of third party analytics companies. Stay away from Macrodroid. Exodus report on the app

There are people actually paying for this crap?

I’ve quickily looked up Sailfish and am shocked that we haven’t been hearing more about it. Why is so? Where’s the catch?

It’s mentioned in one of their official videos about the core one on their YouTube channel. They really should put it on their website in written.

They announced that they were working on a new system that would depart from the MMU3 for the core one.

I’m personally keeping an eye on Prusa. They’re working on a new multi-filament system for their new Core One printer and it might be worth the wait.

It is pricier because it is made in Europe but at least the company has a solid reputation for quality, repairability, consumer respect, and more ethical business practices than whatever enshitification hell Bambu is heading down the road towards.