Think about it. Right now, windows is a fucking hog of an OS. It takes up huge space, gas huge overhead, and needs huge amounts of ram. Ram and storage are expensive as hell right now.

Linux can run well on a laptop on decade old tech (One of my old laptops is literally from 2016 and runs Linux mint butter smooth).

So by promoting Linux, HP can sell a laptop with less ram and less storage, that doesn’t run like shit. Saves them loads of money. They may not give a flying fuck about Linux. This still helps their bottom line.

Not really.

I just don’t mind a days worth of unconvince fir something that I know for a fact will end up helping some people. Waiting a single day to install whatever I want is a non issue and is better than the OS getting further locked down from apk permissions. It’s already bad enough that there’s so many root restrictions you can’t really get around anymore.

“oh my God. Oh dear. No. Not 24 hours before I can install f-droid. I’m crippled. Wasting away to nothingness. My edgelord life is ruined. I’m never going to leave the basement again. This one day has ruined anything worth living for. Bleeeeaaagh”

I got news for you, buddy. 90% of people already don’t know shit about their phones. Half the population couldn’t even tell you how much ram is in their phones or what os version it’s on. People are lazy and ignorant. Just look at what they allowed the government to become. You overestimate the common man.

…Do you not know what they’re implementing?

All it is, is a one time 24 hour hold when you want to install a non play store apk. You click “allow apks from unknown sources” and then a day later your phone behaves just as it does right now. The end.

You mean the side loaded app anyone could make to allow remote device use of a phone if you install it?

It’s not for me. It’s for the tech illiterate. Secure boot doesn’t stop you from granting remote access apps from running.

Yes, I know it will help prevent it. I’ve seen it happen in real time. You have time to think if it sounds suspicious after you get off a phone. You have time to decide to call your bank and ask. A lot of times scammers will pretend it’s to help a family member in trouble and they need the money immediately, but now the person has time to call others in the family and discover it was all a lie.

You obviously don’t know how easy it is to pressure people in the moment, and how much harder it is to do after they aren’t under an instant time constraint. Hell, I used to work in sales and I’ve done it. People do illogical things when they’re caught up in the moment. I know 100% this will prevent some people from being scammed.

There’s a middle ground between complete disregard and complete lockdown. If you’ve got a better solution to scammers that isn’t going to drain your battery, invade your privacy, or hog up resources, I’m all ears. Grow up a little and maybe stop being so “me” centric.

It’s a holding period so a phone scammer can’t be on the phone with you or over a live chat having you enable and install what they want right away. You’re kind of an idiot if you can’t see that it would work. Cry me a river if you have to wait a day before installing some of your shit.

Lol at what you call “proof”. Also, no one said you had to leave it enabled. Also, also, dev options is a security risk BECAUSE it allows for side loading. Hahaha

I still say fuck them and push back and that total control is there end goal.

However. I agree with what they’re putting in place at this time. It’s a one time 24 hour hold before you can install apks from unknown places.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are pieces of shit, and I know for pretty much a fact that making this move will prevent old people from getting scammed. Especially for more targeted attacks where you can use ai to fake one of their relatives voices. It pumps a brake on scammers getting people to grant access while under a panic.

So if you’re tech savvy, you’ll just have to wait an extra 24 hours before you can start side loading after a phone reset or new phone purchase. Not a big deal if it keeps my pops from having his bank account drained. The guy got in a panic when his Facebook billiards game lost his score data. The guy would have left his phone with someone for a week if they told him they could have gotten it back.

Well fuck

Like bttf 1 and 2 where filmed back to back and then released a year apart from each other. That was ambitious. Nothing based on books or prior proof. They just knew they had such a banger they did 2 movies right out of the gate.

You’re a bit of a dumb one, eh?

Study more history. This isn’t the thing with the most dead, the most raped, or the most cruelty, or the longest lasting. It was really fucked up, sure. But the worst thing humanity has ever done?

Hell… Religion might be the worst thing humanity has ever done.

Or hitler killing like 6 million unarmed Jews, or the other slave trades that lasted far longer, or the terrible human experiments Japan did to people during ww2, or when hundreds of black people were blocked from having their syphilis cured for 50 years because scientists just wanted to see what happens, or the tons of times entire cities would be raped and pillaged and taken over with no male child left alive… I mean, there’s been so many atrocious acts done by humanity… To actually vote and say this was the worst one is just tacky.

Acknowledged? It’s always been acknowledged. This was a vote to say it was the single worst thing ever done by humanity… Ever.

This. Not the slave trades that lasted far longer, or any of the wars or rapings or genocides or slaughtering of children or ww2 human experiments or anything else. It was a vote to say that this one thing was the shittiest thing humanity has ever done.

Everyone should have voted no. The African enslavement was really fucked up, but “the worst human attrocity in history, ever”? The world has done some really, really, fucked up things. I don’t really even know why this particular slavery would be picked out from the other slaves over thousands of years except that is was pretty recent and large scale. Why is the world even voting on this shit while on the verge of world war three, while it seems that half the rich elites running the governments are pedophiles?