Scammers make old people install malicious app designed to steal user data and obviously much more. It’s a trick as old as the Internet itself but it’s much more devastating when literally almost every aspect of your life is at stake.
“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.” - Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness
Scammers make old people install malicious app designed to steal user data and obviously much more. It’s a trick as old as the Internet itself but it’s much more devastating when literally almost every aspect of your life is at stake.
They’re not making it impossible to install. Trust me if that was the case I’d just use iphone. But few warnings definitely don’t hurt imo.
Good chance if you have Fdroid you know what you’re doing
Thank you, kind sir o7
Because sideloading is definitely a major security issue if you don’t know what you’re doing?
edit: obviously I am very much against banning side loading. Sideloading is close to being the only reason I use Android. But I can’t understand how few warnings really make people angry.
It’s definitely not a great idea to let general public just willy nilly install minecraft_cracked.apk
without at least few warnings. I love Fdroid/Obtanium and I’m not going to deny it’s rather inconvenient to update apps with them but cmon…
Please don’t be a dick.
Reading this as I listen to music with my Buds FE. It honestly is very much mediocre. Just want my lost Buds Live back. That was some good shit.
Can’t you see the irony of licensing your comment on a piracy forum?
Just a heads up: Lemmy’s PM is not encrypted with a lot of room for vulnerability. Best not to use it.
Literally all of the questions can be answered by a smart little 12 year old.
I don’t buy $1000< phones but it’s also not something that I would cheap out that much. You get more specs than Samsung on paper, I guess, but that’s not a phone needs the most. It’s literally one thing you always use and all the most sensitive shits are in there. Chinese smartphone? Please.
Fuck them so hard. Fuck Kakao. Literally one of the most evil company in South Korea. I can do a whole speech about how shitty Kakao is and how much I hate them.
Webtoon is a giant sinking boat. Employees are sharing their horror story inside it and boy does it not sound good.
I use restic + Backblaze b2. Dirt cheap($6/tb/m). If you have more than a tb for personal photos and documents(provided that you are not some sort of big photography nerd), maybe it’s time for you to delete some things…
That’s cool. Hope they don’t face any stupid legal shit.
convinced that a combination of sunlight’s natural vibrational frequency
Reading this made my brain hurt. I’m so sorry for your loss.
As always, fuck them. But too bad local OSM is basically unusable. I contribed a lot until I finally gave up. Meanwhile domestic proprietary map is basically killing off competition, including Google Maps.
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Japan. Any other places have some places where speed suffers because they eventually go through Japan.
Modern Windows gives you warning when you try to execute unsigned executables.
Android is not outright banning sideloading. It’s just showing you some annoying warnings, which, for me personally, is not enough deterrant to stop people from installing bad shit on their machine that has close to everything about that person.