Google Will Require Developer Verification Even For Sideloading
Do you like writing software for Android, perhaps even sideload the occasional APK onto your Android device? In that case some big changes are heading your way, with Google announcing that they wil…
Seems like they want control so badly they're willing to risk the ones tired of all this cat and mouse game that the end result is no more cell phone. Which means less social media addiction.
I'm okay with this. We can regress back to a wall hanging phone in the kitchen with a 50 foot cord.
Eventually people will just start making their own phones that aren't phones.
Raspberry Pi + Starlink + VOIP
If communication devices can share the internet then a lot of the damage from these locked-down cell radios can be routed around, and no cellphones having any internet sharing capability will be really hard to enforce.
I think a few people already have. Back in 2004, or maybe 05, I saw a lady on a plane that had a voice modem of some kind hooked to a battery on one side and an actual land line phone on the other. All inside a handbag.
She said that a rechargable power brick is all that was needed to make calls to anywhere no matter where she was. And to prove it, she let me use the phone.
And it worked.
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they'll start requiring phones to log in to things and they'll do that gay shit where they hardware id it so you can't use a burner number
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Reject smartphone, return to rotary.