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Here's how Google's getting ready for Android's upcoming sideloading restrictions
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You mean installing? How Google is going to handle restricting us from installing apps on our phone? Thats what it is. Sideloading doesn't fucking exist.
Stop complaining, just use a different mobile OS.
... oh, shit!
See y'all on !linuxphones@lemmy.ca
Thank you. I gave that community a subscribe because I want to use a Linux phone at some point in the future.
The big thing I have to make sure of is accessibility as I am a low vision user who requires the use of screen magnification at the very minimum and a screen reader is preferred for text such as articles and websites.
A Linux phone won't help with the problem side loading stopping problem.
Last time I used side loading was on a driving trip in Italy, I wanted the ZTA app so I could see where I wasn't able to drive and plan routes that avoided ZTAs. A Linux phone wouldn't have helped as no one would publish such an app for Linux unless the user population was in the tens of percentage
ZTAs are the no cars allowed areas, usually the middle of towns
Id argue linux phones being used will fix the problem. People not publishing an app for linux isn't because it's impossible it's because nobody is using it.
Waydroid let's you use Android apps on linux, and Jolla (I think thats the right company) has their own proprietary Android compatibility layer. Not to say the experience is perfect, I'd say its closer to how WINE was 10-15 years ago. But it wouldve been do-able, albeit probably with a bit of headache.
Waydroid works great on my steam deck
+1
I've heard people call it sideloading for actual PCs.
Like, the fuck?
If your computer came shipped in windows S mode it's kinda apt.
"Actual" PCs.
They are actual pcs
Your not-so personal walled garden is a personal computer?
I have no clue what you're trying to say.
PC = Personal Computer
Are you an ai