We need the corporate death penalty.

Or at least take 100% of their revenue (not profit) until they comply.

That sounds really floppy.

I think we should ask Chuck Schumer. He’s really good at getting things done.

We need better than that. We need a pinky promise.

As Louis Rossmann likes to say, this is a rapist mentality.

Ask for forgiveness instead of permission.

In capitalist America, laws decide you!

Best thing you can do in that case would be to try to strip out as much data collection from their driver as possible (or use Linux with the as of now, not-that-great-but-getting-better open source Nvidia drivers if you have a 2xxx series or up). As for the hardware, they aren’t making any more money from that one time purchase.

You weren’t doing that already?

Yeah, when Discord first became popular, the whole “server” terminology was massively confusing to me.

Yeah, it’s possible with something like Shizuku. scrcpy works via adb, so something similar could work on-device.

It’s just not a part of Android’s standard permission system.

And LineageOS. Might just be a part of AOSP now.

Which “once in a lifetime” market crash is your favorite so far?

Whenever you try to install an apk with sideloading disabled, Android will prompt you with a popup that will take you directly to the setting you need to toggle to allow sideloading.

What is legally defined as personal data in this case? Public usernames, public posts, or private messages to another instance, which states clearly that messages aren’t private and to use Matrix instead? Or is there something else?

How? I just read the full text of that website, and I couldn’t find any language in there that would harm the fediverse.

I call that Tuesday.

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.devicelockcontroller

If you’re using Shelter, then in addition to that command, replace --user 0 with --user 10

You don’t need root to do this. You can also uninstall other bloatware using this same method.

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