I’m sure they’re doing this not for user privacy but simply because they’re going to save a lot of money in server expenses and they didn’t find a good way to monetize that data

They restart it for the third or fourth time? Will oems believe them now?

That’s weird! It appeared now! I am 100% sure that this morning it was missing. Probably some server-activated feature

Not seeing that option in my pixel 7 with the latest December update (which revamped the settings menu with a different order, placing Google at top instead of bottom)

I remember this, used extensively 10-15 years ago

Is has been superseded by winget, which has a much larger app selection and is pre installed in every supported consumer windows version

Need Firefox? Just run winget install firefox

Now you can update everything by just typing winget update -all

Unofficial site to browse packages and generate command line instructions: https://winget.run/

When I’m installing new machines I use https://winget.run/ to generate a batch that will download and install the couple dozen apps that I need

Why smaller attack surface? Bigger attack surface. For an attacker is way easier to hack a single developer and publish a malicious APK on their GitHub (or alternative) rather than hosting malware on the official fdroid repository.

The first just requires a phishing email (trojanize a random Dev with poor opsec, get his apk signing key and his browser cookies) while the second is way more complex (get full access to fdroid build servers)

i don’t think that there’s no check at all. There’s either a server side check or a digital signature to verify, or both. You can trick the train ticket check (here they don’t even scan the qr code, they see the screen on the phone and continue) or the lazy airbnb landlord, but that can be done also today

it’s more like searching messages for some keywords, then use the result to justify a full car search

and they accept that as a valid id? I mean in a store ok, but a public official? It’s incredibly easy to make a fake screenshot

the digital version of id cards are glorified qr codes: they scan it and their device downloads from the government servers the official version. Or, for offline usage: the qr code contains all the data, signed with their key, they check if the signature is valid

In the gbatemp thread they wrote that this guy flew too much near to the sun:

1. Reused his username everywhere to the point that his name and the fact that he was from Arizona was public

2. Sent back to Nintendo multiple switches to repair using that name with an Arizona address

It wasn’t hard for them to dox and sue him as he literally gave them his real address multiple times…

I also took 30 minutes of reading the manual before realizing that, yes it doesn’t appear in the wifi network list because it doesn’t actually have wifi connectivity…

edit before someone calls me dumb “u even don’t know how to read the manual”: the user manual is shared with other 10 models and has sections like “how to share the scanner in the network”

Are you expecting feature parity with windows me?

And also with a randomized name/logo that changes at every election, so there’s no more “i vote for that party because my family voted for them since 200 years ago, and i will still vote for them even if they want to do immoral things”

Meanwhile, ai companies that are doing exactly the same are allowed to rack up billions in revenue.

“It’s American for profit corporation, not a Russian cybercriminal!”