Unfortunately the trend is that those apps usually require play integrity api https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide#apps-banning-grapheneos which requires that the app is running on a verified android(stock) device and custom ROMs can’t run it same for waydroid.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/android-now-allows-apps-to-block-sideloading-and-push-a-google-play-version/

and its just starting, its about to get even worse https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html?m=1

And you have data to prove that?

I get your frustration with recent mozilla actions, but I don’t think this one deserves it. For one your point seems like whataboutism. Secondly If you heard about Cambridge analytica it should be clear how much those algorithms shape our lives. It would be good to know for me if those algorithms are really just boring algorithms or if they are shaped by some political or company agenda.

witchOS? 🧙‍♀️ must be whatever runs on iBroom

first time I hear about it, seems to be based on lineageOS?

What’s with the premium tiers? Seems a bit sketchy to be honest.

Agreed. Google just didn’t consent to you getting an app without ads. My hope is maybe we can circumvent it for a while with PWA or browser website bookmarks. Maybe long enough for alternatives to arrive or consumer protection to kick in. I refuse to give up hope even though I might need to abandon android. For now I guess I will just not buy another phone since androids time seems limited. Really hard to find something to recommend to family and friends that just works. My goto grapheneOS also seems more and more cut down with more and more apps refusing to work outside play store downloads or refusing to work on 3rd party OS.

any version of android that’s not vendor or downloaded from the official android website

• like https://lineageos.org/
• https://e.foundation/e-os/
• or the aforementioned GrapheneOS
• calyxos.org (paused)

First of all thank you for providing a foss app!

I think it’s a big difference if the platform tolerates you or actively wants to stop you from doing it. You got my fullest sympathy.

Thank you for these links they are fantastic! I was aware of the procedural lock in via play integrity services and also the lockdown on side loading so that didn’t get past me, but I wasn’t aware google also wants to alienate developers now by requiring ID. It seems to me google want to now fully commercialize the platform, transforming it into the ad infested network that web2+3.0 already became. I think their plan, by alienating non commercial devs, is that all apps will run on their ad models and non without them will be left.

search engine says, it should work fine.

https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Guitar_Hero_III%3A_Legends_of_Rock

or https://clonehero.net/

Been pretty happy with my glorious gaming i2 big enough for my hand plenty of utility and nice and light-weight. Lightweight is one of those things you dismiss until you experience it, it’s game changing in my opinion.

Had to set up profiles initially on win10, for lack of Linux software support, but the changes stay on the device memory, so works fine in Linux afterwards

Found the company after deep diving switches, difference between chinese and japanese OMROM and digging for optical switches for mice. The i2 isn’t that but they use high quality switches that dont die easily like my Logitech ones did.

I respect them for their openness towards repair and their mission statement I remember something about making the mouse they wanted themselves, but couldn’t find a link to it.

Hail the Klingons Ohura!

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insta usually blocks me because of the vpn

https://anonyig.com/en/?

https://imginn.com/

https://www.picuki.com/

Last time, when I used it, to take my save games over to cemu I was really appreciative how quiet my gaming pc was in comparison haha. I miss fire hopping in Mario kart :(

the wii-u console, required to run the gamepad is loud, and the display is 854 x 480 pixels

negligible compared to the pal display and jet engine noise?

Looks like Phil was carrying this one.

I kinda wish they showed protondb around the 19:50 ish mark instead of just focusing on deck playable

https://www.protondb.com/app/7900 still borked but important to see that even for a nieche game from 2005 thats no longer available on steam an entry exists just showcases the wealth of information on protondb

Couldn’t find documentation about it, but in visual inspection the slot seems to fit both A and E key

https://files.catbox.moe/gri9tx.png

(mobo picture is 3rd picture from https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AB350M-DASH-rev-10#kf, wifi card picture, https://www.newegg.com/derapid-de-axe210ngw-m-2/p/0XM-02WM-00021?Description=m.2+wifi )