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If it is the system launcher and that permission was provided automatically, all you need to do is use another launcher.
I am using stock android on a smartphone that was in the Android One program.
I have not changed the the launcher.
My expectation when keeping the Google first party screen lock thing is for it to not make it easier for me to make the mistake of leaving the phone unlocked.
At this point, any app installed on a certified Android device in these regions must be registered by a verified developer.
And that will mean that if I were to feel like making my own app for the smallest of things and just install it on my own phone, I need to tell Google: “Hey! I am programming for Android!” as if they don’t already have enough of my data.
And then sideloading would probably require signing it with a certificate, so Google will always know that I made a software and installed it on my phone.
There is no PR stunt here
Yes. There is no PR “stunt” here. Not everything that includes PR is a stunt.
Using the phrase “PR flavour text” refers to whatever PR is saying to make the actions of a company, seem less controversial. And that is the main job of a company’s PR department.
In this case, it is:
‘This change aims to reduce malware and scams associated with unverified apps, as sideloaded apps are significantly more likely to contain malicious software’
And yes, that thing is a lie as you already explained. That is why I call it PR flavour text.
2027 and beyond: We will continue to roll out these requirements globally.
This just gives me a deadline for switching to a Linux phone.
Seems to have come earlier than what I thought I would be able to manage, but I will have to manage somehow.
What’s their PR flavour text for that?
And how does a company get the authority to do a “ban”? Isn’t that supposed to be a Government thing?
Seems like their real goal is to make the users of their devices as vulnerable as possible. How?
- First they remove the ability for other apps to record phone conversations, so we can’t use call recorder apps
- Then, in the recording feature of their own app, they don’t record the part where it says, “This call is being recorded”, making it possible for anyone to claim that they had not been informed of the call being recorded.
- While the phone goes screen-off and lock in 15 seconds (that’s the timer I set) when doing something useful, like reading stuff on a website, if I leave it on the home screen, it seems to randomly decide sometimes that it doesn’t want to turn off (last I checked, I waited for > 2minutes before I pressed the off button myself)
- and then using the off button too much, will make it go bad faster, which will then not have a replacement.
- they will definitely call this a “bug” if the matter falls out of their hand. But until then, they will keep on denying it. Do they even read bug reports?
It would make a lot of sense to the company trying to decide how large their production run should be.
For the customer, it only really makes sense if they are getting something out of it, like immunity to possible price hikes at launch.
I don’t pre-order, but then, I am a late stage buyer, so it doesn’t really apply to me.
I normally like GitLab issues as a place for bug reports.
A FAQ and an old style forum works pretty well for help.
In fact, just make a community on Lemmy for the forum part and you’ll have what’s required.
GitHub also has this new “Discussions” thing which should do some good, for those that want to stay on GitHub
“can be” ⇏ “has to be”
And it’s not fiction that sets high standards, but the people watching it, that are doing so.
Now you may say that the people are setting those standards only because they are watching said stuff.
But that is just rephrasing, “the people watching fiction are incapable of having their own imagination”.
Back in school, I had a classmate that had a much greater height than others, due to steroid usage.
Now if you say that his parents did that because they watched “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure”, I’ll say it was not released yet and I have no reason to believe that they bought comic strips from another country and went ahead and made a ‘gag’ piece a basis for their standards.