Yup that sounds about right for iOS.

Meant more that if Android ends up in the same boat (and by the looks of it, that's exactly what Google and Samsung want), then iOS starts to look viable because the situation becomes: all the same bullshit but iOS is polished to a shine.

Don't plan on switching phones until my less than year old Note 9 kicks the bucket 😅

Huh...the more you know. I just assumed Magisk was a spiritual successor, apparently I misunderstood how any of it works.

This!

APK signatures exist and they're enough for making sure the file you got isn't modified. Warning people when they use apks for stuff like banking, I get, but if they wanna take the risk, it's on them.

Blocking root makes no sense because I'd argue that if the person knows enough to root their phone and got past all those bricked phone/thermonuclear war warnings, the onus is on them to not get their keychain compromised by giving root to some random app. Again, a warning is fine.

Aside from that, people need to understand: THE CLIENT IS NEVER SECURE. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Any self respecting secure API is made under the assumption that all the calls are coming from some malicious state actor using curl until proven beyond doubt that it's an actual user.

I've used Magisk with the safetynet module + hiding root from apps with like a 95% success rate. Quick search for "magisk safetynet" and look at the xdadevelopers threads

Whoa, is Xposed still a thing that works? Had to use Magisk instead to get the safety net stuff working on Lineage OS android 11

Hardware isn't everything. Apple has a couple of advantages over iPhone that let them do more with less:

• iOS needs to support a MUCH fewer devices than Android. Even before they switched to their own silicon, they've been optimizing the OS to the hardware really well giving you devices that go toe to toe with Android flagships of the same generation with SIGNIFICANTLY better hardware and like double the RAM. Also why Apple doesn't really care to increase RAM as much as the android side of things.
• Apple silicon is actually really good and making their own hardware allows them to optimize on both sides of the equation and lets them do more with less.

The selling points for Android (at least the way I've seen it over the years) have always been full control (talking about non-root, I'd rather not go down the root rabbit hole here) and (since iPhone 11 started doing firmware blocks on parts) reparability...but both seem to be going out the window lately.

Prices are crap though, but then again Android phones on the top end don't seem much better. 1-2 gen old iPhones are usually a bit more reasonable though tbh.

The more I think about it, this may finally convince me to...shudders...switch to an iPhone. I've always stayed on Android because despite the recent Google bullshit, it still for the most part lets me do whatever. Side-loading apks is a huge part of that.

If it's turning into a shittier iOS clone, what's the point?

There's a bank here that refuses to let you log into their app if you have developer options enabled. Their service was getting much better until that point, but I dropped them completely after that.

I use developer options to get better screen density on my large ass screen, and to you know...develop apps 🤷‍♂️

FUCK THESE ASSHOLES WHO THINK THEY CAN TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CAN NOT DO WITH MY PHONE

My favorite was the bit about the increased chocolate rations! 😄

On Android, Flud has been good to me over the years even though the ads can get annoying at times. Hopefully it helps you get Linux ISOs on your phone with ease :)

That may be to speed up the download using multiple connections. Other downloaders do it on other sites as well, doesn't mean the files are split on the server.

I tried searching but found nothing. What incident?

Came late to the party for Firefly but I've watched it. Fuck whoever decided to cancel it.

This was an interesting read. Good to know that from now on I should treat official CDs just like pirated content: with caution.

The beatings shall continue until morale improves

I'm gonna look into this, thanks! 😄

I have a few go-tos foe different types of content but it's always scary they might just stop existing one day.

...I mean...piracy's bad m'kay 👀

Jellyfin isn't perfect, but by god it's incredible! I've trued to contribute but the obly stuffeft is stuff I don't fully understand :(

Maybe one day...

A 5TB portable hard drive only costs as much as three months and can hold most of the stuff you ACTUALLY wanna watch. To be fair, DVDs and BluRays can get expensive but at least that's yours forever and you don't have to worry about the studio suddenly deciding you need to subscribe to THEIR bullshit too. If it's not available outside of streaming, well Gabe Newell said it best.

This may be more involved than most people are willing to go but just wanna add:

• This can be painfully slow without a dedicated GPU. Even low-mid range dedicated is gonna be a huge upgrade over CPU or integrated GPU so get one of those (if you can) or prepare to leave it overnight.
• I recommend playing with Handbrake settings a little. Use options with HEVC (x265) or AV1 for significantly smaller file sizes at the same level of quality. If you're leaning towards x265, an Nvidia card using the NVENC option is gonna be significantly faster.
• Handbrake has a preview feature which outputs a 30 second segment at the given settings. Very useful if you wanna tune the quality/file size.

Bonus: Look into Jellyfin for a streaming service like interface

All good shows that don't blow up to Stranger Things levels get cancelled and the recommendation algorithm prioritizes mediocre over great. Why would I pay for that 🤷‍♂️