ploy
/ploi/
noun
a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.
Except for the cunning part it seems to be a pretty good description.
db2
joined 1 year ago
That's exactly what it is. A ploy for free attention and it's working.
This is how you know deregulation doesn't work.
If Google wants to do that they don't need to ask, they can just do it. The only way around that is to turn off Google apps ability to install apks. Probably all of their apps.
There's just no way the US dollar could ever possibly be used that way. 🙄
The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix
Go add a 2.4 era driver to a modern kernel and see how that goes.
The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix
so any remaining users have a few more years to get a new graphics card.
Anyone running a Voodoo is doing so because they want to. Dropping support is bullshit.
The whole thing was probably staged. Look at all the free press they got. Now they can advertise their latest useless crap free too.
Imagine being so cocky that you think pirated YouTube videos can't be a thing.
Can confirm, I hooked up an electric on demand for the time it takes for a single shower, it was stupidly expensive. It used way more power than a tank would to deliver hot water in a weeks time (math is fun). I boxed that pos back up and plan to sell it.
Why would you need to turn off Play Protect? It works fine.
Also if you've got more than one device save the patched apk so you don't have to do the patching more than once.
Not to mention fakes. I bought and Android 12 tablet on Amazon as new not long ago, the version string said 12, but the actual API level was 24 (Android 7) and the UI wasn't android 12.
If you don't think that's a big deal on a cheap tablet then you're not considering what else could have been done to it that you can't see. They're already lying after all.