Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

[tian2992@mastodon.social]

@grote this is BS

[numodular@c.im]

@grote But... ya know... 'unbridled' Capitalism!..

[itsfriday@toot.community]

@Li @CalcProgrammer1 @grote True. I see "advanced user" as just some one knowing a bit more as the average user. Maybe there is a better term.

[pavel@social.kernel.org]

@grote Yeah, "committed to openness", what an ugly lie.

And "one time 24 hour wait" ... I bet that will be a lie, too. I'm pretty sure this will hit me more than once :-(.

Google is evil.

[tedmielczarek@mastodon.social]

@grote @fdroidorg sorry, that was directed at Tim, not you. I understand and appreciate what F-Droid provides and agree that this sucks badly. I just also think that people have a tendency to get off in the weeds instead of focusing on the things that matter.

[razemix@mamutovo.cz]

@Lioh @grote Well, the 24-hour wait basically means that for a whole day, you're banned from using the device that you own however you like. What's stopping them from extending it to a week? Or a month?

[aerique@genart.social]

@grote SailfishOS is waiting for these people.

Made by ex-Nokia employees and a viable daily driver since 2013.

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@utf_7 @grote

Credit union browser access europe.

Start making enquiries now and let them know it might be a revolition for memberships?

https://help.bcu.org/s/article/Accessing-BCU-Mobile-Banking-App-in-the-EU

[lioh@social.anoxinon.de]

@Razemix sorry, I have waited three month to unlock my Xiaomi. 24hrs is a blessing! @grote

[dusk@todon.eu]

@burnitdown @grote

Where indeed

[maxxcan@mastodon.social]

@grote is it necessary a dragon blood and sirens tears?

[glennmagusharvey@sakurajima.moe]

@grote What if I don't ever connect my Android phone to a Google account in the first place?

[millihertz@oldbytes.space]

@grote or alternatively:

• sidestep this whole mess and install APKs through adb install

if they want to call installing apps sideloading, then we'll do sideloading for real.

[grote@chaos.social]

@millihertz for all apps you will ever want from F-Droid? And their updates?

[millihertz@oldbytes.space]

@grote yeah, if that's what it takes

[millihertz@oldbytes.space]

@grote i'm guessing it'll take the F-Droid website about two seconds to figure out how to have Chrome automate the process

[heislertecreator2049@mastodon.social]

@grote just wait until they download and inspect, validate, do a security check on, and....

run a jar?

[millihertz@oldbytes.space]

@grote it sucks, but fuck google

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@argv_minus_one Are you talking benchmarks or specific usages? In benchmarks they'll probably always look to come out ahead because they have a LOT of accelerators. Real life usage is much much trickier and really depends on what you're doing. For example, ARM may have some advantages in, say, encoding if the encoder can take advantage of all those accelerators and if it's allowed to still use lots of watts (just less than the desktop presumably) with good heat dissipation.

But in something where accelerators start being tricky to use like, say, emulation or a game, ARM starts falling behind. Often way behind.

The thing about x86/64 is it's very good at general usage.

(I got curious and looked up a benchmark btw. The latest M5 seems to barely claim better SC benches than my CPU)

[millihertz@oldbytes.space]

@grote (sorry, did you think i was coming at this from an "i can see what google is trying to do here" angle?

.....nnnnnnnnope