Eagle0110
@Eagle0110@lemmy.world
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
Yeah I also think it would take a lot more than just one single bit of discrete information in an universe of completely uniform and homogeneous nothingness, to restart the universe lol /s
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
And not as many people ever even care about doing this is exactly how we got to this point.
- Comment on Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech 2 weeks ago:
If the people on the good side stop trying to find exploits like this, and by finding them develop awareness and knowledge about them, so that countermeasures can be devised, then bad actors are much more likely to find new exploits first, and when they exploit it you won’t even see it coming anymore.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
XDA is dead, and you just described one of the symptoms of a forum being dead.
That said there are still a small amount of people posting detailed posts for rooting Xperia phones, for how to flash OS updates with unlocked bootloader without losing your user data, for how to bypass carrier restrictions to get international model to work with the 5G bands in the US via build.conf edit and baseband flashing, etc. There are perks of a community being small and niche, and I guess not everyone is brained washed by Samsung’s propaganda they use to justify permanently locked bootloader on their phones lol
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
You said it like banking apps will be happy to work with a Linux phone lol, and rooting and getting a custom ROM (one which exists or otherwise) are two completely different things that have nothing to do with each other, and you shouldn’t support manufecturers who choose to make it difficult to unlock bootloader anyway.
By 2025, rooting still empowers you to make your own Android device however you like it to be.
Also not many people care about custom ROM these days because Android stock ROM got much better in average, so there’s much less a need for creating a brand new ROM just to get basic features. Why making a brand new ROM instead of modding the pretty good one you already have now. And root empowered ROM modding tools that are developed as Magisk module or Xposed modules still have a pretty big community, there’s a long list of pretty big repos with hundreds of modules each, and with how sophisticated Magisk and Lsposed have evolved it’s easier than ever to write your own mods
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
Recent AOSP repo added lines of code to Package Installer to handle enforcing restricting whether Package Installer installs an APK file or not based on dev signatures, as well as denying installation if internet isn’t available so it can’t contact Google’s servers for dev signature verification.
So this is enforced by Package Installer, which is already how Google enforces their ridiculous minimal SDK version requirement for installing APK packages, as well as for updating an app with an APK package with mismatched signature or blocking downgrading an existing app with an APK package, which I already have bypassed via Xposed this way.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
Thankfully I have root, I’ll just simply hook into it runtime via Xposed to bypass this nonsense.
Seriously anyone who doesn’t have root on their Android devices these days and age, well may Google have mercy on you lol
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
Same! Although still on my 512GB SD card but I’ll have to upgrade to 1TB soon at this rate lol
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 3 weeks ago:
Curious, on which phones is it called “Smooth Display”?
On my Sony Xperia 1 VI running Android 15, this option is called “High Refresh Rate” like a sane person would call it lol
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Curious, as someone who’s an actual author, do you have any legal option at all for preventing Amazon (which I assume technically act as your publisher in this case?) to pot DRM on your books, or demand them to remove DRM if they added DRM without your notice?
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 month ago:
The game has a really bad problem with incompetent developers and project leaders who have shitty moral and ethical principles, and no I don’t think they are fixing that any time soon lol
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 month ago:
This also makes me curious how it was even possible for them to bring it to Steam in the first place, logically speaking, with Russia being under international sanctions and all major payment processors no longer accepting business from there?
Did they like make this happen with a shell company or something elsewhere? Lol
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 1 month ago:
Just get root, and it wouldn’t be too difficult to bypass.
I already bypass many of Google’s stupid and arbitrary restrictions like their minimal SDK version requirement for side-loading apps and such with Magisk and Xposed modules.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 2 months ago:
Exactly, the users/installation count of such products are clearly a much more accurate indicator of the success of their marketing team, rather than their user’s perceived value in such products lol
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 2 months ago:
A drone can be shot down, a drone can malfunction and crash, a drone can be jammed or otherwise electronically interfered and crash, a drone can structurally fail due to quality control issues or previously unidentified damage from prior rough handling in a warzone and crash.
It’s a lot better if any of those happen to a eBike, than if it happens to a person who’s literally hanging below a drone flying at even just a hundred meters altitude.
Also a eBike can be folded into much more aerodynamics-friendly shape and size to maximize the drone’s range further, a human, not so much lol
- Comment on Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free 2 months ago:
I’m not sure Valve have folded as much as pretending to comply for now to stall for time to work on a more strategic countermeasure that will stay long into the future.
Maybe I’m coping but it’s the logical thing to do in the US where Valve is based, and Valve is one of the few US companies who are not always under time pressure because they are like one of the biggest companies who’s private and not publicly traded.
- Comment on Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones 2 months ago:
Yuck indeed.
People tried many ways to get around it, back when I was still using an US variant Samsung Note 9, people went as far as using a leaked engineering/preproduction ROM, which can be flashed using Samsung’s official tool because it does have the correct key for the locked bootloader to accept, being built and compiled by Samsung, and because it’s an engineering ROM it would give you root and everything despite of the bootloader still being locked.
But it was only meant for preproduction for a reason, it is very VERY unstable and not exactly usable for a daily driver lol
So happy I am leaving all that BS from Samsung behind with my current Sony Xperia 1 VI which is bootloader-unlocked and rooted and deeply modded and truly my own device lol
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 months ago:
You are the only one here carrying on a grudge and being vocal about it.
Are you a big fan of FOSS? How much are you going to support FOSS developers today hmmm?
- Comment on Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones 2 months ago:
Even the non-carrier variants in the US, misleadingly called “International variants” despite of being regional to the US, have locked bootloader.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 months ago:
He’s not obligated to provide support but there are infinitely many ways for decline providing support without insulting someone for being an Android user, and insulting Android users in general, at the same time, literally the moment when someone sought for support.
Especially when Discord is not even inherently a support platform to begin with, Discord is a fricking instant massaging platform, this is fundamentally no different from insulting a stranger on the street the moment they started a conversation, with the most BS insult ever.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 2 months ago:
So the answer is very clear, when laws/agreements/contracts/etc. no longer have an effect at all, usually authority becomes solely defined by force and force alone.
I fear it’s only a matter of time before a civil war breaks out.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 3 months ago:
There is an Xposed module to replace the tiles back to a simple on/off toggle, for both BT tile and WiFi tile.
You need to grab your control back lol
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 4 months ago:
Well considering he chose to use a pyro-mechanical firearm, instead of things like social/political/legal/economical tools to accomplish his goal, seems to check out lol
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 4 months ago:
Regurgitating am impression of, not regurgitating verbatim, that’s the problem here.
Chess is 100% deterministic, so it falls flat.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 5 months ago:
At this point it’s pretty much only the competitive games with kernel level anti-cheat that don’t work on Linux because of their kernel level anti-cheat.
But then again, if 90% of the games you play are competitive games that require kernel level anti-cheat, you should probably consider expanding your gaming experience lol
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 7 months ago:
Awwww darn as a fellow languages and linguistics enthusiast I feel your pain too XD
I found it helpful if some of the languages you focus on happens to be written in an entirely different writing system :p
- Comment on Denmark to ban mobile phones in schools and after-school clubs 7 months ago:
That’s the whole point here, allowing or disallowing phones should be the discretion of teachers based on what class they are actually teaching, be it language classes where there’s no need for phones or STEM classes where a pocket general purpose computer has many good uses and offer particularly good opportunities to teach students how to make constructive uses of smartphones in practical real life situations.
And instead having this being outright a ban on the school level, like being proposed here, is exactly the single worst possible way to do this. Having it banned on school level but having arbitrary “exception” being allowed defeated the whole purpose and makes it practically no difference from the above, and also open up lots of loopholes for abuse. You also can’t just have a list of school or government level “officially approved exceptions” because it’s ultimately about a technology, and technology is always evolving way faster than bureaucracy.
- Comment on Denmark to ban mobile phones in schools and after-school clubs 7 months ago:
Exactly, and banning mobile phones is one fantastic way to make sure schools can never provide classes that teach them about positive and healthy technology choices, and I meant a real class about that, not just a class for the sake of pretending to be a class filled with only hypotheticals
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 8 months ago:
Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there’s a lot less serious ones of that kind lol
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 8 months ago:
I think what matters more, or perhaps at least in Valve’s perspective, is that microtransactions are inherently binding between the game’s developer/publisher and the player, so the game’s developer/publisher is the sole party held accountable here (by Valve), while ads inherently involve and invite a 3rd party advertiser, muddying the situation for everybody. While on the other hand, microtransactions can only be done for content already a part of the game, while ads serve content outside the scope of the game.
So this is much much more enforceable for Valve, while DLC and microtransactions marketing is already subject to the established rules on Steam.