Yeah I was surprised. I’m hoping it was a manufacturing defect and assuming they replace it it doesn’t happen again. If they don’t replace it though I have to stick to my convictions.

As an avid dbrand fan, their grip case for the Pixel 9 Pro was disappointing. The plastic around the USB port is super brittle and broke after less than a week. Now the bottom is deformed and I’m waiting on a reply to my support ticket before I find an alternate case and kiss my skin goodbye

There are some great mobile games out there. A few of my favorites include Dawncaster and Slice & Dice. Personally when I’m looking for a new game I use https://www.darkpattern.games/ to check if they are exploitive.

I haven’t checked in a while, so they may have walked back on this, but supposedly we finally get coop in the next one.

Pretty much the same here. Switched to AMD after Heartbleed/Spectre. Was torn between AMD or giving Intel another shot in my next build, up until a few weeks ago when this news broke. It’s going to take alot for me to consider Intel again.

Safety Net was replaced with the “Play Integrity API”. The current workaround I’m using is “Play Integrity Fix” by chiteroman and playcurl by daboynb. I believe this is still limited to Android 14 but could be wrong. The xda thread for it could shed some light.

In the settings under options -> gameplay you can turn off “5% generated heroes” which prevents that behavior you mentioned.

Seconded. The Android version runs extremely well and feels purpose built for mobile (looking at you, Slay the Spire).

Time to plan that week for PTO.

My old project I got to architect the frontend ran lean at around 300KB - part of our target audience had older phones so it was designed with that in mind.

At my new job 22MB is child’s play. To be fair they might do it better with the next version.

I have a Pixel 7 Pro, in the U S. (and some other countries) call recording is disabled by default and sometimes it’s possible to get your phone to think it’s from a region where it isn’t, and then enable it, but I haven’t really looked into it recently. It’s also really fucked because my state in the U S. allows call recording, so I really feel Google is being lazy by restricting it countrywide.

I use skvalex’s Call Recorder. Been using it around half a decade.

I root my phone so I can record my calls. That’s about it. I do other things with root but they aren’t the reason.

Why do I want to record my calls? Because my memory is shit and it’s nice to just be and to go back to a recording lol

BG3 for me. It’s been a while since a game has captured me so much.

Once you hit Android 14 you’ll have to.

Safety net is on the outs, now the go-to is “Play integrity fix”.

Good. I’d rather wait longer for a polished game as opposed to the current paradigm.

One of the first things I did when I took over an old php project was convert to bcrypt and add logic to automatically upgrade the hash on their next login (and in case you’re wondering, we also removed the old insurance hashes and the upgrade logic after a while, forcing remaining users to do a password reset).

To be fair, a lot of the game breaking launch bugs that hurt the game for me were with PVP (specifically, the instanced wars). I do know there were others but those PVP bugs are what I’ll always remember. The lag, the broken healing, the hatchet exploit, and a few others.

Netflix you just can’t get from Google Play, but people report having no problem installing from Aurora (basically a Google Play store frontend).

I’m not sure how it works on Graphene as I personally just rooted my phone but didn’t take the plunge to Graphene, but there is a list of compatible banking apps here: https://privsec.dev/banking

For anyone doing similar: battle tested software is still fallible, and exploits could emerge at any point (same goes for VPNs). Be sure to set server_tokens to off, this prevents NGINX from revealing it’s version to the world, which will help protect you in case an exploit is discovered down the line.

It’s a deterrent. Which is a pretty apt comparison for robots.txt and user agent blocking.

Just because some people might break into my house doesn’t mean I’ll stop locking my doors.