Google is not trying to block any sideloading (at the moment, at least).

Google isn’t, and likely won’t since it’d very likely result in fines in the EU.

Amazon are working on a new Linux-based OS for their devices called Vega that won’t be able to sideload apps. Even if apps could be sideloaded, it wouldn’t be able to run Android apps since it’s not Android based.

It’s definitely possible for Steam games to be DRM-free, especially older ones. https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

For those games, you can literally just make a copy of the game directory after downloading it, and back it up somewhere. Just run the game EXE (or equivalent on Linux) to run it, even on a system that doesn’t have Steam installed. Everything you need is in there. That’s all Steam is doing when you ‘install’ a game - downloading its files and extracting them. It also installs any required runtimes like MSVC or .NET, but you can do that yourself too.

Of course, the best idea is still to buy games on GOG instead.

So far, nobody has proven that any major phone apps are constantly listening and sending that data somewhere. That would be huge news if it ever happened.

For voice assistants, they’re tuned to listen specifically for wake words like “hey Siri”.

How would this be enforceable, though? Part of the benefit of the Fediverse is that multiple different apps can communicate with each other (for example, you can see Lemmy posts on Mastodon). Even if Lemmy implements something like this, what’s to stop someone from commenting using a different app that doesn’t implement it?

I’m actually surprised we don’t see more spam on ActivityPub-powered systems, since spammers don’t even need to have an account with Lemmy, Mastodon, etc and could instead have their own ActivityPub server to send the spam. I guess they don’t do that since the spam instance would be defederated pretty quickly.

Not unless it’s DRM-free. You don’t own games that have DRM. You just have a license to use them, which can be revoked at any time.

The fact that so many people use Steam mean that gamers haven’t really learnt either. Some games are DRM-free on Steam, but a lot aren’t.

Oh, I didn’t realise (I don’t use it). Thanks for the info.

You don’t need to root it to install other, more useful apps.

For example you can run your own Plex server on a spare PC, download movies and TV shows (I hear you can use torrents for this), and install the Plex app on your TV stick to watch them on the TV. Or, ask a friend for access to their Plex server :)

If you like cable TV, you can sign up to a much cheaper IPTV service and use the TiviMate app.

On the Onn one, I think you can just use Google Play to install other apps. On the Amazon Fire one, if it’s not in Amazon’s app store, you’ll have to download the APK file.

Ideally use a VPN with port forwarding (like AirVPN or Mullvad) so you can properly seed :)

Just because the company has a high valuation, doesn’t mean they’re making a profit. They’re indeed losing a lot of money and will go bankrupt if they don’t get new investment and/or increase their ARR soon. Right now, they’ve only got 12 months left before they’re out of money. https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/openai-could-be-on-the-brink-of-bankruptcy-in-under-12-months-with-projections-of-dollar5-billion-in-losses

have a Warrior container

This is an ArchiveTeam project, which is a totally separate effort to the Internet Archive. As far as I know, they’re not related other than the fact that ArchiveTeam use The Internet Archive for storage.

Forced launchers like uplay and origin are the issue

These are usually first-party though (made by the same company that makes the game), not third-party.

they literally have no means to directly collect voice data from you

The Facebook app doesn’t collect voice data either though, or at least I haven’t seen any actual data proving it. Some Android phones show a dot on the screen when the microphone is in use. The Facebook app doesn’t even ask for microphone permission unless you use a feature that needs it.

then complain about them later.

I don’t see where they’re complaining? They don’t seem to be asking anything of the C devs other than help with API definitions.

Sounds like the equivalent of Alt+SysRq+B.

It’s likely that Google offered, and Mozilla doesn’t have a reason to say no. Google Research do this for a bunch of open source projects.

Chrome needs a JPEG-XL decoder too, so I’d guess they’re going to share the code across both Chrome and Firefox.

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In this case, the issue is really the C kernel devs, not the Rust devs. Some are not open to new ideas at all. Take a look at the conference video he linked to for example: https://youtu.be/WiPp9YEBV0Q?t=1529. He clearly states that he’s not trying to make the C devs learn Rust.

Title is basically clickbait given it’s Cox Media Group doing this, not Facebook. They’re partnered with a bunch of companies.

Except it’s not Facebook doing this, it’s Cox Media Group.