@cas android hacking basically went from giant and rewarding to work on, to boring, with google trying to keep as much control over it as possible, and not letting people do what they want.

I was very optimistic when I saw postmarketOS, and today I hope the pmOS hacking scene will become as successful and growing as Android's used to be in the 2010s.

@cas nowadays we're just fighting to have the right to install our own apps. Literal *APPS*. While back then you could do literally anything with the whole *OS*. I chose Android over iOS because the hacking scene was this wild. Nowadays, a decade later, I hate android and I hate where it's been going. It became literally the opposite of an open OS with a giant hacking community around it, with only a few projects remaining just to make android bearable, and many apps detecting if you have them installed and refuse to work if so.

@cas The 2012-2015 Android hacking scene was peak, back then I remember having tried loads of mods and custom ROMs and all that, including cyanogenmod, AOKP, resurrection remix, omnirom, etc. and mods like substratum for theming, I remember about clockworkmod recovery, etc. Samsung wasn't as annoying as they are today regarding installing mods either, you could just boot into download mode, flash whatever you want, and you're all set, no OEM unlock or anything stopping you!

I really miss this era of android hacking

@cas android hacking basically went from giant and rewarding to work on, to boring, with google trying to keep as much control over it as possible, and not letting people do what they want.

I was very optimistic when I saw postmarketOS, and today I hope the pmOS hacking scene will become as successful and growing as Android's used to be in the 2010s.

@cas nowadays we're just fighting to have the right to install our own apps. Literal *APPS*. While back then you could do literally anything with the whole *OS*. I chose Android over iOS because the hacking scene was this wild. Nowadays, a decade later, I hate android and I hate where it's been going. It became literally the opposite of an open OS with a giant hacking community around it, with only a few projects remaining just to make android bearable, and many apps detecting if you have them installed and refuse to work if so.

@cas The 2012-2015 Android hacking scene was peak, back then I remember having tried loads of mods and custom ROMs and all that, including cyanogenmod, AOKP, resurrection remix, omnirom, etc. and mods like substratum for theming, I remember about clockworkmod recovery, etc. Samsung wasn't as annoying as they are today regarding installing mods either, you could just boot into download mode, flash whatever you want, and you're all set, no OEM unlock or anything stopping you!

I really miss this era of android hacking

@cas alt text: This is Bob
He knows that play integrity issues exist.
He doesn't keep worrying about play integrity status and enjoys using his phone.
He doesn't pollute Reddit with Play Integrity Screenshots.

Be like Bob

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

As a free software maintainer, this is entirely unacceptable. Now I have to spend time figuring out how to tell AI agents to *fuck off* so I don't have to deal with this.

@thegarbagebird oh yes another ugly UI

Like, it clearly looks unfinished, like they started copying iOS and then just gave up and said "good to go!". The Quick Settings thing especially looks quite awful, and my phone is overall having trouble handling all that useless blur (but disabling it just makes everything look even worse).

And yes, I don't like iOS-esque UIs.

Google: "Hey can I copy your homework?"
Apple: "Sure! Just change it a little bit so it's not too obvious."

wow android 16 material 3 expressive looks so ugly

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wow android 16 material 3 expressive looks so ugly

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

oh good, my 25G NIC was manufactured by NVIDIA

that means I can use this meme every time it pisses me off

@danirabbit Yeah I believe trashing other DEs to be dumb and just wasting time. I feel like Linux having so many desktop options and customisability to be a strength, and *especially* if these DEs actually collaborate with each other.

This isn't about competition, but about choice, something other OSes tend to lack, that is given to you for free.

For example, I run sway on my computer, I quite like it and I feel quite productive with it - but I still recommend other envs besides sway - I have friends I helped move to linux use completely different DEs I don't use, yet recommended to them (gnome, cinammon, Pantheon, KDE, etc...) and they love it. Despite not having really used KDE or gnome (etc) much in the last few years, I still enjoy seeing progress in these, I feel very happy seeing these get more and more polished over time, and the developers are super nice and helpful too :)

@ptrc hmm as far as I can tell they tell you to unlock the drive first before running photorec..

@ptrc pretty sure photorec supports encrypted FS?