Bring back call recording APIs. I don’t want to root my phone to get back basic functionality.

Is there an official source for this?

The article links to this blog post, but I did not see anything relevant in it:

https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-drop-march-2025/

I had not heard of Revolt before. Here is a link:

https://revolt.chat/

What free software alternatives are there?

Disable YouTube app from opening URLs. Use Firefox + uBlock Origin instead. No ads.

https://github.com/Fr4gorSoftware/SecScanQR

SecScanQR can not scan from an image.

Many phones specifically blow fuses in the device to make sure that attempts to downgrade will fail for security reasons.

I think you are mixing e-fuses (Samsung) and tamper-evident storage (Pixel). First one is used to lock Knox after rooting, second one to prevent downgrades.

This eget?

With automated in this context I mean non-interactive ways to install multiple apps, as opposed to having to manually tap install on each app.

I continued Witcher 3 after a long time. Trying to stop thinking of it as a chore to complete, and instead live it like an adventure where I can go and do something funny for a while without worrying if I get any progress.

I can confirm, OBS Studio is perfect for recording Microsoft Teams sessions. Other parties are not aware of the recording unlike Teams built-on recording.

Probably works for every similar application as well.

Of course. When you run a monopoly, you get to make your own rules.

EU should force Google to open Android back up.

What option is that? And which Android version?

Steam should have an option to send feedback to publishers: “I didn’t buy this because of [select all that apply]”.

Oh, the story mode is not finished yet? Any idea if they have a goal date?

What region is that?

Minesweeper

Daaad :(

Hi it’s me your son!

Sorry to hear that. Sail the high seas with no worries. You can still contribute to digital preservation of games by seeding. But don’t worry if you can’t do that.

I hope things get better for you!

Care to elaborate?

I should probably get around to continuing Witcher 3. I just have a mental issue with quests and choices blocking other quests that I just end up reading the wiki. Help me.

First at least make sure the poor sod does not have a family!

I concur. I hope this goes to court and the judge throws those patents out.

Stop wasting time on useless features, Google, and give us back call recording.

whose

who has

Mostly FICSIT, though.

I hope you told them to go fuck themselves.

Samsung takes security almost as seriously as Google, but they deliberately cripple their devices when you unlock them to install another OS and don’t allow an alternate OS to use important security features

What does the crippling and security features refer to?

The Play Integrity API is less about security and more about Google asserting their monopoly.

They do not want truly open source Android platforms to gain popularity, because there would be a high chance people would want ad blocking, which is a direct threat to their profit margins.

I hope EU takes regulative action to force Google to allow GrapheneOS, LineageOS etc. to be able to run the same apps without issues.

Is No Man’s Sky still “a mile wide and an inch deep”? What are the basic gameplay loops?

If you hate XCOM’s PRNG hit percentages, you may want to try or watch Hard West. It has somewhat deterministic luck mechanic, that prevents idiocy that happens in XCOM. The game itself is a bot buggy, though.

Oh, it has Denuvo. I hope they remove it later.

And GrapheneOS has call recording btw

Thank you for the information. Unfortunately it does not seem to have automatic call recording yet:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/2083

Which apps do you mean?

You answered this already: apps that use the Play Integrity API. Includes some local banking apps, some random ones and Google Wallet. I wish app developers didn’t use those APIs, but they are probably not aware of the implications or don’t care.

I also have LineageOS 21 and Magisk 27, and WhatsApp works without issues. I don’t remember having to do anything. But I have a different phone.

Maybe the Pixel 8 LineageOS images have some issues?

Did you flash the Google apps image?

pkg search syncthing shows that it’s packaged, version 1.28.0.

Any experiences with running cron jobs in Termux? Is it reliable?

Inertia.

I’m looking to upgrade my phone as well. One important thing I want is call recording, and that really narrows the options.

Samsung phones can record calls, but you need to use SamFW to change the CSC. LineageOS does not support recent models.

OnePlus phones have better hardware specs, but I think nowadays you have to root with Magisk and use BCR for recording. That breaks banking apps. LineageOS supports some OnePlus models, but not 12.

Pixels don’t have native call recording? But GrapheneOS works on them. Again, many apps are broken.

Fairphone might be interesting, I should look into that.

If you are asking for help in english, change the locale to english before sharing error messages or screenshots.

Someone would have to maintain it. And someone would have to make sure it’s not Jia Tan.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1457320/Techtonica/