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Cake day: April 25th, 2024
  • AkipOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27
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    5 days ago

    Agreed. Google just didn’t consent to you getting an app without ads. My hope is maybe we can circumvent it for a while with PWA or browser website bookmarks. Maybe long enough for alternatives to arrive or consumer protection to kick in. I refuse to give up hope even though I might need to abandon android. For now I guess I will just not buy another phone since androids time seems limited. Really hard to find something to recommend to family and friends that just works. My goto grapheneOS also seems more and more cut down with more and more apps refusing to work outside play store downloads or refusing to work on 3rd party OS.

  • AkipOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27
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    6 days ago

    Thank you for these links they are fantastic! I was aware of the procedural lock in via play integrity services and also the lockdown on side loading so that didn’t get past me, but I wasn’t aware google also wants to alienate developers now by requiring ID. It seems to me google want to now fully commercialize the platform, transforming it into the ad infested network that web2+3.0 already became. I think their plan, by alienating non commercial devs, is that all apps will run on their ad models and non without them will be left.

  • AkiptoBuildapc@lemmy.world•Any recommendations for large mice?
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    23 days ago

    Been pretty happy with my glorious gaming i2 big enough for my hand plenty of utility and nice and light-weight. Lightweight is one of those things you dismiss until you experience it, it’s game changing in my opinion.

    Had to set up profiles initially on win10, for lack of Linux software support, but the changes stay on the device memory, so works fine in Linux afterwards

    Found the company after deep diving switches, difference between chinese and japanese OMROM and digging for optical switches for mice. The i2 isn’t that but they use high quality switches that dont die easily like my Logitech ones did.

    I respect them for their openness towards repair and their mission statement I remember something about making the mouse they wanted themselves, but couldn’t find a link to it.

  • AkiptoVideos@lemmy.world•Gamers Nexus' response to Nvidia black market documentary getting taken down
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    1 month ago

    Yes and google took care of it to stays this way by running yt at a loss for 10 years to kill all competition. Thanks capitalism. Any competitor would need to climb this mountain of 10 year investment billions before, having a chance of becoming a competitor, is not quite feasible. I’ve seen this trend time and time again people idolizing the golden days of a product when the company was out “acquiring users” when the product was great and fun to use before eventually becoming enshittifacted, not realizing they’ve been fooled. Its just rich people coaxing you in crushing the competition while running at a loss. The product was too good to be and you pay the price later because antitrust laws are a joke.