Some carriers also lease your phone. This could be what OP is asking.

It’s silly that a socket to affix a lens on a phone isn’t a normal thing. Unless I don’t understand how lenses work.

I don’t see why they can’t just make the system more customisable. This stuff is highly stylised and ugly in my opinion.

Are these more design options? Or will we be forced to have an “expressive” tacky looking design

Grocy

Will require self hosting, unless someone has a hosting service for this

The Switch has a SNES emulator as well

So you’re saying it should allow for developers to allow exclusive installation from third party stores as well? Like amazon? Fair.

Sounds more like DRM, since it’s for developers to choose whether or not to disable side loading their apps

I used to use Total launcher to make the most convoluted home screen possible that literally nobody but me knew how to use. Like several circles you swiped on in different directions to open folders, absolutely no labels, etc. Now I just use the stock pixel one lol

Setting up a pay-as-you-go option would be rather neat

It seems it’ll ask some form of password

Or literally just Android’s “lockdown” feature

What about RCS?

First news story on Lemmy

That’s ambitious

I’ve had a banking app think my phone was rooted before. Had to basically switch banks.

I’d do it if I didn’t lose access to Google Pay, banking apps and RCS. AKA, be sent back to 2011

Isn’t that normal?

YT isn’t fandom-level bad.

Why would we need a fediverse alternative 😂 unless you want to go around editing wikis with your mastodon account, wikis are basically just static webpages. It’s called HTML 😂

Mfw you want to check some quick Minecraft details and you get a pop up then half your screen covered with one video. Thank heavens that they created minecraft.wiki as a wiki is basically essential for playing that game.

Also for some reason you cannot access app data like you used to. Now if you want to export a Minecraft world you have to connect your phone to a computer.

I am sometimes guilty of the same- I mean, how dare you!!! Take my downvote, unkind person!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Did you read the article?

a Google spokesperson confirmed that yes, benchmark apps were blocked on Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro ahead of the public launch. The aim behind this was to “avoid” leaks, and it was Google’s intention to unblock these apps prior to general availability of its new devices.

That’s a software problem

Can you run phones without batteries off of AC?

Yep, I was sent one email to an old email address I do not use.

You had a limited time window to manually do that. I didn’t get the memo.

I bought a bunch of music on Google Play Music, forgot about it. Come back a year later and it’s all deleted because they shut the service down.

Ironically Nintendo sort of did that on physical boxes for their consoles that was actually just a download key in a cartridge

That’s completely different? Also the owner still had an art piece. Just a destroyed one. That was arguably worth more.

Games don’t get lossy compressed when sent. They aren’t films or photographs.

Literally true

I use Jerboa

Gosh remember how that phone didn’t have a compass

I love it, glad Jerboa uses it

FM radio. Also my old Motorola had a “karate-chop to activate camera” which was very useful

I miss the FM radio