Virkkunen

6 people in a support team working on R&D

It’s a small team of 6 in the USA that worked as a support team for R&D, no one there “wrote the successful game”.

The only uninformed here is you, since SteamOS does not identify itself as Arch, but rather as SteamOS Holo and it does show separately from Arch on the stats.

On the other hand, my old S22U that I charged multiple times a day with a 9W wireless charger everyday since I got it, without any of these silly 80% limits, had 95% capacity after 2 years and 4 months, according to a 3 month average on AccuBattery.

I have used fast charging a lot as well, considering that phone would barely last half a day due to the SoC

These new security features do not (and can not) apply to apps distributed outside of the Play Store, so it won’t compromise third party stores whatsoever.

If you root, unlock your bootloader or run a custom ROM, nothing changes since your device does not pass the integrity checks and Google already had a feature for developers to block apps from running on those devices.

These new additions are also entirely irrelevant for apps distributed outside of the Play Store since Play Integrity requires the app being downloaded from the store.

Also, all of these additions are entirely up to the developers to add, Google is not forcing anything.

For apps installed through the play store, developers have the option to add these “layers of security” with Play Integrity. The one the screenshot shows keeps you from opening and using an app if specific apps are detected to be running in the background (like a bank app blocking you from using it if a screen recorder app is running on the background). Another feature is apps blocking them from running if they weren’t installed from the play store (like side loading a bank app and it prevents it from running because it might be malicious).

For apps distributed outside of the Play Store (and for people side loading them) and those running rooted/bootloader unlocked devices nothing changes, as Play Integrity is no longer in effect in those cases

In my experience, doesn’t matter. You can use lutris/bottles or install on a windows pc and copy files to the Deck and it’ll work, the distro is irrelevant in this case.

I stick with Steam OS because I don’t see any real world benefits of changing to another distro

It’s more like a problem avoiding the existing solution

It’s a case of The People’s Front of Judea throwing sticks at the Judean People’s Front

Ditch Mozilla for what?

You do know screenshots exist

App doesn’t allow screenshots or screen sharing as part of the security features

Also, don’t do mobile banking

Many times that’s simply impossible depending on the bank, and it’s wholly inconvenient for most people. Security wise, it also depends on way too many variables, so you can’t just tell people to not do it and don’t elaborate further.

As usual, we are treated like third class citizens, but the community always comes to help: https://github.com/Martichou/rquickshare

They are way better, faster without sacrificing precision/security. With an ultrasonic sensor I can simply tap the screen and it’s unlocked, where with the optical ones I’d need to press for a second before unlocking, sometimes having to shuffle my finger around.

Living in the EU and Latin America, I can safely say this has never been an issue before with the exception of Proton Mail which took me 8 confirmations and 5 retries

Pixel 9 has an ultrasonic sensor

I think Thunderbird has feature party with K9 though, at least from my quick comparison. Seems that this is just a rebranding and UI update to Material 3 (a welcome one), but they intent to develop and maintain both apps for the time being.

GitHub has nothing to do with this. All the information we have is that the dev himself took everything down after an agreement with Nintendo.

C&D in Brazil stands for Comedy & Despair, where you’re the one laughing at the company desperate to get you to do what they want without having any actual legal leverage

The problem is that people tend to mistake being private to being above the law. You can argue against what law enforcement decides is a crime, but that matters little to service and providers and it’s a another type of discussion