Ghoelian

Wait what? There isn’t even a pixel tablet 2 yet, why are they talking about a third

Wait so it’s just a design choice? I mean I get they were the first but really, who really cares about stuff like that?

“The changes would put consumers’ privacy and security at risk, make it harder for developers to promote their apps, and reduce competition on devices,” Google said in a statement.

Lmao I’m pretty sure it would do the exact opposite of all of those things.

Yeah that doesn’t sound incredibly cheap, and also you have to factor in all the employees time used in your pizza

Tldr: It’s just better compression

Afaik that only applies if the app is processing payments, which in this case it shouldnt be.

True, but that just means no more contactless. They don’t entirely block you out of the app afaik, like many other foreign banks I’ve seen do.

McDonald’s was just an example, the point is most apps don’t need to do that at all.

I do happen to know how payment systems like that work, and thankfully those are all cloud-based, the only thing the app does is start transactions and check with the server if they’re paid. If they implemented it well, as I suspect a big corpo like McDonald’s probably would, their own order screen also checks server-side if orders are paid. Not much you can do from the app side to mess with that.

Oh I don’t know if mcdonald’s specifically does this, I’ve never used the app, I just used it as an example because that’s what the guy above was talking about as well.

Fortunately so far I haven’t come across a bank here in the Netherlands that wouldn’t work because my phone was rooted or because I’m running grapheneos. Hope it stays that way too.

It’s the same system, it’s all part of play integrity. And that also applies to this bullshit, why does McDonald’s care if I didn’t install their app from the play store?

Not a single app on my phone was installed through Google Play, it’s all Aurora. Guess if apps really do this i’ll just have to stop using them, cause I’m not installing the play store.

Same in the Netherlands, and I pretty much never see stray shopping trolleys anywhere around here. Seems to work really well.

Ngl i think I’d prefer just entering a password once manually over Google doing some magic bullshit to make it work across devides.

I usually put them in /media, so my games drive for example lives in /media/games.

Seems to mostly fit with the usual external media that gets mounted there.

The “it’s more lean on resources” always seemed to me like a strawman people don’t like it came up with to diss on Gentoo.

Wait but isn’t being more lean a good thing? Or am I misunderstanding how they’re using that word?

It’s pretty nice, especially in combination with slurp which lets you select a part of the screen.

I have this mapped to my printscreen shortcut: grim -g "$(slurp)" - | wl-copy, which lets you select a part of the screen to screenshot, and copies the image to the clipboard.

• TalkBack now uses Gemini
• Chrome has TTS built-in now
• Circle to search for music, seems to be just a manual way to trigger song recognition
• Earthquake alerts more coverage in the US
• Offline Google maps on smartwatch

Is the word “nude” in the link not enough to know it’s gonna be nsfw?

I’m not sure about the others, but I’m pretty sure Hitman isn’t linux native.

As far as I can find on protondb, neither are Deus Ex or Tomb Raider.

I’ve never had any issues running those games through Proton though, so that’s great.