Better than I expected.
But I also worry this is the first twist of the dial to boil the frog.
Yeah, honestly for me I’m going to run graphene until postmarketOS matures or someone gets VOLTE working for ports for sailfish so all I want is devs to keep deving until I can move
This is a huge relief, for me.
It means that I can keep my current phone until it dies, which should give Linux phone enough time to mature that I never buy an Android phone again!
It sounds like Linux phone is close to being “ready” as a daily driver, at least for power users. Reliable VoLTE sounds like it’s not quite there, which is necessary for me (living in a country with only VoLTE calling).
At some point I want to setup linux on my android phone and tablet with chroot. I have heard devices with reasonably good output are getting some pretty amazing performance.
To me this could be one of those moments like how the steam deck basically opened the door for linux on pc’s. The hardware is there. A modern phone with 12gb of ram can do plenty at this point.
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It’s the 24 hour wait portion that makes me continue to think Google is not acting in good faith. Any or all of the following steps - hiding it behind developer options, a warning about being coached, and even the restart to disconnect any live sessions, I could buy as reasonable efforts to protect people. 24 hours is ridiculous though. They also didn’t seem to address what happens if you factory reset your phone or get a new one. Would it be a days wait each time? A lot of us will be fine with adb during that time period, but an “intermediate” user who likes f-droid but isn’t comfortable with the adb command line shouldn’t have to wait a day to install their apps.
One day! Are they stupid???
Making competent users wait a day to install apps they want to install is ridiculous
It’s a one-time wait when you first enable the feature, not a wait each time you want to install something, but yes.
That is even more stupid.
To be fair, old people and less tech-savvy people would download apps from scammers giving them access to everything.
I think this is a reasonable middle ground.
There’s already a check where you have to allow an app to be installed from any source outside of the play store.
I even question sketchy looking apps from the Google shop, so forcing me to wait a day to load something is just going to be obnoxious as hell for no real gain.
They could instead allow people to enable a ‘high security mode’ to block things if the less savvy are a concern without forcing it on everyone else.
Being fair, I have to help people that didn’t install from third-party stores or side-loading that get hit with apps that basically keep popping full screen ads and fake infection warnings. So many bad/scamy apps are in the official Play Store. It is possible that some of the spam apps somehow hide the prompts within some of the ads to enable installing from unknown sources in order to side-load more. But Google should be putting all the effort to stop users from using apks and third-party stores into getting their own house in order.
I could not care less about the children lol.
Quit drinking the kool aid.
I have to wait 24 hours and then do everything I do now. It’s quite literally the best middle ground. Help prevent scams, be inconvenienced for 24 hours, once.
This isn’t age verification. That one can die in a pit of flaming tar.
thanks for not taking more away, Google-senpaiii
ughhh
