Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

[jon_bon@toot.cat]

@grote

Google lingo: "power users". Jeez... I'm most definitely not a "power user", I just want to download apps from @fdroidorg , @IzzyOnDroidOrg , @accrescent . It's not something complicated for a minority, downloading from repositories other than Google Play Store is a choice everyday users can make.

[navi@catcatnya.com]

@grote WAIT ONE DAY??????? WTF

[mndflayr@metalhead.club]

@lkundrak @grote

I double checked the list.
But sadly, it does not involve any wanking.

[navi@catcatnya.com]

@grote That's WORSE than Apple at this point

[rdecartes@mastodon.social]

@grote Non "latus onus" sed "installatio" vocatur.

[lumi@snug.moe]

@grote what the fuck. none of this is at all acceptable

let people install whatever apps they want, without any fearmongering

it's supposed to be their device ​​

[progo@boop.city]

@grote
> the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

I look at it this way:

One market of SoCs that support a single bodged together Linux kernel fork. Two separate but related app ecosystems. The people that are fine with Google Play Android are subsidizing the cost of my hardware.

[maddy@thegayagenda.fans]

@grote@chaos.social ​​

RE: https://thegayagenda.fans/notes/af12c2c51tnji5km

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@grote

Get off android and apple. Its time

[tehstu@hachyderm.io]

@grote Perhaps Windows and MacOS should do this for when you want to sideload Chrome, including corporate machines. Just so Google get depth to the feedback on this process.

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@grote

Per the screenshot, biometrics are not necessary. The device PIN will also suffice.

For what it's worth.

[jhunnius@fedi.at]

@grote Time for a PinePhone.

[valpackett@social.treehouse.systems]

@old_angry_queer @terminaltilt @grote the screenshot literally says "or device PIN"

[lumi@snug.moe]

@grote the gall these corporations have to tell me my own device is not mine

[pastthepixels@is.potatoe.ca]

@grote yeah I silently stopped maintaining my drawing app for android a while back. I was already struggling with path smoothing but google forcing ai shit into their IDE plus them pulling this completely demotivated me

[li@tech.lgbt]

@grote "someone is guiding me"

.. "no one is guiding me" is broad enough it would consider an app developer telling you "this is the bullshit hoops you have to go through now to use our application" .. or following a tutorial on how to enable this .. bruh

[jackeric@beige.party]

@grote I've avoided biometrics up to now and intend to keep avoiding them

[li@tech.lgbt]

@agowa338 @grote no because the border agent spyware is "verified" because its from someone whos socially "allowed to" hurt you. and its "for your safety"

[fedihacker@masto.es]

@grote Herding people.

I want to use my phone and install in it whatever I want. Google has nothing to say about that.

[frenezul0_o@mastodon.social]

@oatrapado @grote Europeans might come to the rescue in the coming years with creations like FairPhone and Jolla Phone. Maybe if the donations start flooding in, Pine64 might be convinced to put more effort into the PinePhone.