Oh, this is about the delay if you're using a full adblocker? I'd assumed this was about the awful choppy rendering performance I get in FF Mobile when it's just starting up a vid (which smooths out after about 5 seconds). I just use FF on Android to be able to run YT vids in the background or with my phone-screen locked.

There are monopolistic things about the Play Store, but compared to competing platforms it's a lot better than most. Android allows you to install apps from outside of the store without any extreme hacks. Contrast that vs iPhone or game consoles.

But yes, the fact that Google doesn't want anybody else to have official stores bundled on Android/Play-services supported devices is a huge anticompetitive action. Also, the Play Store does get some premium support from the OS.

But I've used 3rd-party stores in addition to installing direct-downloaded apps and the workflow isn't bad at all. I just wish you could whitelist a domain when using the browser, so I could say "I only want to download APKs from HumbleBundle.com since their app is gone" without opening up APK installs from all domain names in the browser. Possibly some kind of store-signature system would be better for this instead of controlling by installing app.

Idunno, I don't fuss about that because I'm perfectly capable of thinking that they're both terrorists and freedom fighters.

They're fighting for the freedom of Gaza... but they use terrorism tactics, refuse to abide by ceasefires, and have genocidal beliefs.

Those don't seem mutually exclusive for me.

We all contain multitudes.

But that said, somebody who goes to "freedom fighter" as their first noun for them, that's kind of a red flag.

It's not Epic doing this, but Songtradr, which is the company that purchased Bandcamp from Epic.

Over the last few days I've noticed that the Venn diagram "Russia's recent attacks on Ukraine are good, actually" and "Hamas' recent attacks on Israel are good, actually" posters is a circle.

Seriously, whenever you find the most extremist pro-atrocity stuff you can search their names and "ukraine" and find the worst Vatnik crap.

If you're rooting for either team in Israel vs Hamas, I'm giving you the stink-eye.

It's a war between genocidal terrorists and apartheid colonialist fascists, with a massive civilian body count on both sides. Can't we all just be sad about dead kids instead of being cheerleading freaks?

edit:

Y'know, I though this @ name was familiar and so I figured I'd take a look.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/3944960

@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml

Israel is genociding and colonising Palestine since about 80 years. Ukraine was genociding Donbass for 8 years.

... yeah, I'm not sure I'm really going to take him seriously on his opinion on geopolitics. Blocked.

They also bought 7digital.com this year, which is a site I sometimes buy MP3s from since they have a better selection of mainstream record-label stuff than Bandcamp (no Amazon MP3s here in Canada).

The players still have their stuff and their user ID, just under a new login process. They've been pestering users to make this migration for years and years.

Edit: also, this is Java edition, meaning the worlds they built are just Minecraft save files that a new user could access. The cloud-based one was Bedrock Edition, that's the one where you'd have cloud-based worlds that you could lose if you lost your account.

I really hope this is the stuff that turns the squishy middle against them. I know some trans kids and I'm scared to death of shit like this for them.

But I also know most people see trans kids as weird and scary as a concept, and are ready to go along with this fear.

Listen to the kids.

Wow. You can take the Redditor out of Reddit but you can't take the Reddit out of the Redditor.

Oh my God you idiots just bring back the Xperia Play how hard is that???