agreed.

I feel that, generally speak against live service at great length, I feel like it’s popularity as a model today has fully bastardised gaming as an industry (love using games like Destiny 2 as an example) but, Helldivers 2… seems to do it right. well, even.

you don’t even need to buy the fucking warbonds if you play semi regularly. I feel compelled to just to support AH sometimes.

Bart starts dating the Lovejoy’s daughter, who turns out to be more Bartier than Bart could handle?

real mvp ✨

lol

Very welcome, hope it helps in some way. Feel free to ask within the GOS community as well.

Generally, compatibility should be fine with sandboxed google play. I suppose plexus is relevant if you intend to completely avoid play services.

I think Plexus has the info you need

about fucking time

Appreciate the info & context, and I agree with your overall sentiment WRT device protection against authorities.

I’ll be moving to grapheneOS for my next phone (which unfortunately may be another from the pixel series). I suppose I can try my hand at magisk and other things (I’d still prefer to use MicroG on GOS). If it writes a custom boot image then there’s a chance it’ll prevent boot entirely. I’m not sure if there are other methods for installation or temporary use of root?

I’ve been using calyxOS for several years on pixel hardware, and I’d honestly recommend you go with grapheneOS; it is technologically the more sophisticated project, and I’ve just sort of made my peace with the concessions I have to make using Calyx (it’s kind of ideologically driven, given that I like the idea of microG in principal).

Genuinely I would avoid root on Android if security and device integrity is a key focus for you, but I also empathise with the perspective of wanting to feel like you own the device you paid for. It depends on what you do on your phone; If banking apps or the handling of any sensitive data fall into the equation, I would completely avoid root.

Similarly to you, I also used to block adverts systemwide via hosts / adaway. Today I use Firefox for Android with the ublock origin plugin. Any apps that would have presented ads to me otherwise have kind of been phased out over time by FOSS replacements (if there are any alternatives you need, please reach out).

For a comprehensive backup system, you might want to check out Seedvault? I’m not certain but I hope this will cover your requirements?

I’m not sure what ‘mess with apps’ internal states implies, can you please elaborate on this?

but you can’t have a headphone jack because that’d be absurd 🫠

absolute dealbreaker. they hosted an AMA on Reddit about 4 days ago. One user brought this matter up but it was left unanswered.

Sorry I meant in context to keeping a strong trunk and a happy lower back. Of course you’d want a good balance of exercises to support even muscle development

squat and deadlift are key to success. Really, anything that develops your posterior chain is a healthy bet

3rd of July now declared ‘fuck piratesoftware day’

what a shit job 😔

…who took the picture? 🧐

at the present trajectory (hoping that the vast majority of signatures are genuine), I don’t think 1200000 would be out of the question by the deadline.

That said, I worry that interest will drop off pretty sharply after the 100% mark.

fuck sake

I don’t know, call it an unfair inkling but it’s a weird thing to say under mild distress when playing a game.

My friends across Europe will agree with you on the word itself; in that it was only recently stigmatised. Still, I’ve never thought of continental europe as more racist then where I am (UK), save for maybe prague.

My only exposure to Scandinavia so far has been my former devops colleagues from Gothenburg. I’d never get the impression they’d say that at all, though they had each lived in London for at least five years prior to me joining.