Come on, man. If you’re going to goon it to anime, at least pay a real artist.

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Some lawyer on Capitol Hill: “Hmm…”

Not if, when.

Who knows, the same demand may be given of certain other federated social media sites in a few months.

Seems about right, for as long as they can.

I’d even consider the possibility of “google-free” phones showing up on kickstarter in two or three years for the tinkerer market. That market exists. Raspberrypi didn’t buy itself. We are here!

Looks to me like they’ve been complying for 20 years or so. No real change needed on their part.

I see it this way.

Google wants everyone using gapps to be identified but isn’t outright saying you can’t use Android without certification.

“Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it’s a certified device”

So LOS and Graphene may get off the hook on this and be able to install whatever non-google apps they need. By default, neither have google services.

Sucks for the gapps people, but, I mean. They knew it was coming, right?

…What about after September 2026?

Well, there’s one teensy tiny caveat.

Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it’s a certified device.

So, in theory… no gapps, no approval necessary?

Open devs just have to have two versions, as many already do, one signed with Google’s spyware and one on github/fdroid with nothing.

Looks like I’m gonna just carry a stock phone, give it nothing but the most basic information and tether it to a laptop over a VPN. They stop tethering? I’ll use VOIP and a hotspot.

Welcome back to 2011. Maybe messenger bags will come back into fashion in foss culture.

I LOVE FMA:Brotherhood, I love 90% of the ending but this seemingly intelligent being letting himself drain to nothing, knowing full well he was, was convenient and a bit flat, tbh.

He had tons of opportunity to gtfo and go back to scheming.

I can buy the “he’s too vain and he never feared or respected humanity” argument on Father though.

FMA: Brotherhood until the ending when a teenager fist-fights an otherworldy being powered by magic and thousands of dead people.

Old enough to be disappointed in their sons.

Sounds lovely for making a swiss-army-knife of distros.

You people don’t have phones?

So you fixed it with a simple search and a bit of research, r-right?

Debian is where the jaded users end up when they lack the will to flash another usb stick.

“I’m good, fuck it.”

Assuming most end users for Debian even have monitors connected…

OpenWRT One

They have their own router.

Why no one mentioned this yet, I have no idea.

“Ah yes, I survived the great systemd/init war…”

Imagine how many they haven’t stumbled across yet.

Didn’t ask

Huh

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