2026-09-24 21:28 UTC
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@dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2026-09-25 02:37
Can anyone ELI5 for the nontechy how things are going to work once Google rolls out the new bullshit? I’m seeing so many of my apps put out notices that they will no longer work once Google goes through with the verification system. Will I still be able to install shit through f droid?
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@statelesz@slrpnk.net 2026-09-24 21:51
Isn’t everybody using Droid-ify anyway?
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@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2026-09-25 04:39
keepandroidopen.org Google says “power users” can “still install” unverified apps. Here’s what that actually looks like: Delve into System Settings, find About Phone Tap the build number seven times to enable Developer Mode Dismiss scare screens about coercion Enter your PIN Restart the device Wait 24 hours Come back, dismiss more scare screens Pick “allow temporarily” (7 days) or “allow indefinitely” Confirm, again, that you understand “the risks” Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own. Worse: this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can change it, tighten it, or kill it at any time, with no OS update required and no consent needed.
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@Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-24 22:18
Nice. There’s just a FOSS alternative for almost everything these days. I get 80% of my apps from F-Droid.
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@hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 2026-09-25 05:17
So F-droid “evolves” to become F-droid Basic?
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@Joelk111@lemmy.world 2026-09-25 05:20
But does it allow you to backup your app list to move to a new device?
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@Kissaki@feddit.org 2026-09-25 06:31
F-Droid News: f-droid.org/…/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-andro…
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@Fermenade@feddit.org 2026-09-25 14:59
I’ve just tried it. The UX is great and the downloads are faster than ever. It’s soo much better noww!
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@diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-26 15:30
I had alpha updates on and got this early. I then mistook this for malware. Because it fucking sucks. This is the only time I had to wait for fucking F-Droid to load. All because they are still sucking Google’s dick and abiding by their orders of “meh use this 320GiB framew*rk so that this button can be this much rounded”. They have been bitten quite a few times and they still haven’t learned anything. AND the alpha didn’t have offline sharing. I figured they would add it later. They did not. It’s gone. In some places, one rarely ever goes online. The app auto-updates once and the feature is gone. Reduced to atoms. Cannot share anything. Also, they used corpo speak to justify it. I repeat, this so called “collection of nerds” used corporate speak to justify something. EDIT: I guess they added it, but the corpo speak was so bad that the blog post makes it read like it was not added. My conclusion is fuck Android, fuck smartphones, that platform is dead, go back to Thinkpads. Older ones. And not E series. And not L series. These Thinkpads. Normalize sharing .c files via an Ethernet cable. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.