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

[reallylazybear@mastodon.social]

@StellaFoxxie Well, least it ain't bootlooping or boots back to recovery. You better not point the finger at the custom ROM dev or they'll laugh at you ! Just kidding haha

Idk. I miss the "CyanogenMod era" of custom ROM's, Xposed framework, all that good stuff. Over the years I guess phone manufacturers did really make it hard to do stuff with phones. Bootloaders are locked and shit. Some phone and tablet models don't even have official custom ROMs

[thornbill@fosstodon.org]

@Kdude @grote it’s already a ridiculous amount of hoops 🙄

[gizmonicus@defcon.social]

@grote I was literally just thinking about how it frequently seems like Google does things under the guise of "security hardening" that also just happens to have the convenient side effect of further locking users into their ecosystem.

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@raymaccarthy @utf_7 @grote

Yes yes I am.

[ziclaud@mastodon.social]

@alextecplayz yeah, I did it with an older phone a few months ago to test it, a redmi note 8T, but my current redmi note 13 with HyperOS is wayy worse somehow. They say it's "bugged"...

[elkaki@mastodon.online]

@grote

Honestly If this didn't have the 24 hour period I wouldn't mind much, but fuck is that going to be annoying

[waha_06x36@mastodon.social]

@luatic @grote Come on now, this *only* makes sense as a security measure. It doesn't make sense as a way to lock down the phone totally, because then they could just... lock down the phone totally.

It absolutely makes sense as a response to the attack vector of tricking someone into installing malware by telling them to turn on developer mode, though.

[waha_06x36@mastodon.social]

@chand_v_post @grote That seems to just be shorthand for "unlock your device", since that is usually done with biometrics.

[alextecplayz@techhub.social]

@ziclaud oh god HyperOS, that one is a nightmare to try and unlock compared to MIUI. My condolences.

You need a 30-day old Mi Account, the Xiaomi Community App and have a Global device. CN devices running HyperOS can't be unlocked anymore, because phone unlocking is illegal in mainland China since 2022 when the government passed a decision to outlaw it.

And with it is the "quota reached" bug that requires you to apply for unlocking at midnight Beijing time. Hell, now you have to run some Python script or whatever, from a brief look through XDA Forums.

[zeldathebunny@girlcock.club]

@grote What the fuck

[thomasdorr@mastodon.social]

@oatrapado
Let's be fair its a pocket tablet that can also make phone calls, and the calls are often not the primary purpose any longer
@Frenezul0_o @grote

[idiot@mastodonapp.uk]

@grote how long before banking apps refuse to run with app freedom ("side loading") enabled.

#android

[oldrup@mastodon.green]

@grote Mum gets scammed A LOT and solely from apps in the Google Play Store. Like Facebook. Sideloaded apps is the least of our problems.

[alisonw@fedimon.uk]

@LexYeen @grote
As bad as the USA car industry creating "jaywalking" as an imaginary crime in order to sell more cars. (Not a crime anywhere else)

[nobody@mastodon.acm.org]

@agowa338
If only there were a technology that let's you use your own root of trust
@Li @grote

[li@tech.lgbt]

@nobody @agowa338 @grote hah its the thing i said https://tech.lgbt/@Li/116257681293741665

[zansystemit@mastodon.social]

@grote how will integrate any non-android enterprise mdm base? Direct push apk it is a must.

[b@mrrp.place]

@grote aaaaaaa ,, this type of flow would be great for something that's extremely frequently abused by scammers and is only rarely used legitimately, but sideloading apps is way too common and useful for this type of flow to be justifiable for any stated reason they have (and of course, we all know what the real reason is)

[tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one]

@grote I hate phones!

Somebody make a one newer than 2018 that is compatible with #postmarketos please!!!!

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@grote https://clip.cafe/the-man-with-two-brains-1983/goddamn-drunk-tests-are-hard/