Sounds like the app developer does not want to support you as a user. You should take it up with devs that do this if that’s a concern.

Well then you know where to install it from.

Cool, sounds like it ain’t a problem for you then. As I imagine it’s not a problem for most people.

Why should I know? I’m not a McDeveloper.

If I had to guess, I’d assume it’s because there’s a payment system in their app and they don’t want people monkeying around with it and stealing food.

Why would I explain something that has nothing to do with this discussion? This has nothing to do with rooted devices.

Sure, it’s your device. But it’s their app. Ultimately, it’s the developer’s call to make. You don’t have to use their app.

Google’s only providing the option, it’s up to individual devs to enable it on their app. If the app developer has chosen to block sideloading, then they probably have a reason for going out of their way to do so. Whatever you find that reason to be should inform your decision whether or not to continue using their app.

Nah, fuck that. I’m not rewarding somebody’s thievery, that just empowers them to do it again. I’d remote-destroy my stolen phone with thermite if I could; not to protect what’s on the phone, but so that whoever stole it has absolutely nothing to show for it.

Elon is a fucking terrorist. Deport his ass back to daddy’s emerald mines.

I long for a moneyless, classless game in this genre where the incentives are community thriving, trust, pleasure, and all the other aspects that make life worth worth living outside of capitalism.

I think Sim Ant technically meets these conditions.

It’s not a lie! It’s technically the first thing anybody was stupid enough to name “giga train”!

I very much doubt this is the result of AI, as much as somebody not checking the dictionary they imported into their game. Kinda like that Hello Kitty dictionary’s… concerning definition of “necklace”.

This has been a problem on Amazon for ages. Unless you can confirm the seller on the Amazon listing is authentic, you should never buy any storage devices on Amazon, ever.

I had a site-wide, week-long ban for saying that Nazis who got punched in the face deserved it. Fuck that place, lmao

The API-based deletion tools usually have to be tuned to delete posts slowly enough to not trigger Reddit’s abuse detection. Otherwise, they’ll automatically undo bulk changes like that.

There’s no way I can manually edit and delete all of my content with the snail’s-pace reddit UI

This is, unfortunately, the only way to guarantee that your posts stay deleted. My account was 15 years old. I still log in every few weeks or so to go manually delete more comments. It’ll be a while.

Gonna play Devil’s Advocate for a moment here.

I assume that this isn’t actually for nefarious purposes, and is actually just a low-effort way of curbing spambots on their platform. It’s likely that the bots are using emulated devices to post from the official app, and this permission might lock up a lot of those bots. Obviously this wouldn’t be the best way to combat spambots, but I’m gonna go with Hanlon’s Razor on this one.

I know the immediate first thought most people will have is that this is just so Meta can open up another avenue to spy on you. But let’s consider for a moment the logistics involved in that. Audio/video data is huge; capturing and parsing it it requires a non-insignificant amount of CPU/battery usage, and transmitting it will use a good bit of bandwidth, both of which would be noticeable by even novice users (since most modern devices these days will show an on-screen indicator whenever certain sensors are being activated, and will tell you what app is using it, so seeing Instagram trigger your mic/camera when you’re not using it would be immediately noticed by just about everybody). That would also make this one data stream exponentially more costly to gather and process for Meta than most of their other data streams combined.

Also consider the fact that Meta already has over a million data points on just about every single person on the planet, anyway; what could they stand to gain by monitoring your IRL presence that they haven’t already inferred from the other, less-invasive data they’ve gathered on you? Half of the recordings they’d get would be farts and “oh my god, stop barking, nobody’s even at the door”, and Meta probably already knows that you have a dog and lactose intolerance.

It’s more expensive to produce, it’s more likely to be detected, and there’s less of a guarantee that you even get any usable data from it at all since they already know just about everything about you already. I really don’t see spying as the end goal for this particular action, only because it doesn’t seem like a profitable venture.

None of this is to suggest that Meta isn’t spying on you. They are. They 100% are spying on each and every one of you. I just don’t think the mic/camera are how they’re doing it.

Not to say that your relative is at fault, but this might also be a good opportunity to teach them about the font scaling and other visual accessibility settings in Android.

Are you trying to stitch screenshots into a long image? If so, there are several apps that will do this. One I’ve used, to varying degrees of success, is Stitch & Share. I’ve not used it much in a few years, though, since Android has stitched screenshots built in now, so I’m not sure if it’s still a good option for that.

It’s 2024 and you need a subscription to make water hot.

Just end me.

You should actually use -site:reddit.com to remove only Reddit links. Just using -reddit.com will also remove any pages that link to Reddit, which would filter out a lot of non-Reddit results.