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You actually can’t anymore. Let it go my dude.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

Bro, what sort of hate-train are you on?

You can dislike the iPhone, that’s totally cool and your prerogative. But making up lies just looks silly.

You can’t install or update a single app on a google play protected phone without an account either, and now that sideloading is getting locked down your options are even fewer. And what’s this nonsense about no calculator? The iPhone has had a calculator since 2007.

That is completely false. You can setup an iPhone and place a phone call, browse the web, listen to music, etc without an Apple account.

Insane how people get so worked up over other people’s opinions and reply with incorrect conjecture.

Some real fanboyism going on in here.

Every Samsung phone I’ve had came with Facebook, onedrive, bixby, AR Emoj, and a bunch of other stuff. You can remove almost everything from an iPhone except the App Store.

The case was that Google paid apps to not be on competing stores and only be on the Play store. It’s not a lawsuit around Android sideloading.

Still ironic though that Epic games is the main proponent, but yet they do the exact same thing on their store paying for exclusives.

We should ban phones as well because people get scam calls.

There’s basically no reason ever to do water cooling on a home system unless you’re trying to do overclocking.

Air is cheaper, more reliable, and typically quieter because you don’t need pumps.

Adding many GUIs are available for 7zip format on Linux, most popular is probably Ark.

At least where I work, our cloud team is ~35 people who manage the whole thing.

The datacenter team? In the hundreds.

Cloud is not the answer to every infra problem, but the flexibility, time to market, and lifecycle burden are easily beneficial weighed against finops. I’m an Azure engineer myself, it’s no comparison the benefits to a managed solution vs rolling your own DC for a lot of regular business workloads and solutions. Beyond that personally I’ve been able to skill up in areas I wouldn’t be able to otherwise if I was stuck troubleshooting bad cables, rebuilding a dead RAID array, or planning VMWare scaling nonsense.

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What is your secret? I’ve tried this myself and nothing happens when I plug it in. Arch with KDE here.

This is still a struggle today.

Want to put a file on your iPhone or iPad from a non-mac? Good luck without some 3rd party app.

In fairness they’re not the same thing - recall records everything you do making a nice single honeypot of all your actions. Apple’s thing is really just a search bar that can reach into apps like email, calendar, etc - it’s not recording your bank logins. Google Play Services tracks everything you do on Android and sells it to advertisers.

A valid point, the main issue at hand is that the iPhone is locked down to Apple’s approved store - you can’t just install things like a regular computer. That’s really the core of the lawsuit regarding the insane 30% cut Apple forces on their mobile computing platform.

Steam isn’t a monopoly.

The PC is an open platform, you can use any game store or launcher you want - unlike the iPhone, Android (without sideloading), PlayStation, switch, or Xbox.

And costs a yearly subscription, also random features get removed every month.

People downvoting you can’t do a quick search:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/apple-will-soon-receive-made-in-america-chips-from-tsmcs-arizona-fab-company-in-final-stages-of-quality-verification

TSMC is absolutely up and running already in the US.

All of which were 100% profit-driven, and conveniently ignoring Epic’s many sins not limited to the one I personally despise him the most for: killing the Linux and Mac builds of rocket league. Epic bought the studio and nuked the Linux version, no apology.

Edit: I redact my earlier message, based on your other many comments in this thread I believe you are an Epic game store bot - or a corporate shill.

hanging a light fixture above a kitchen island is pretty common, you can just drill some hooks into the stud.