An infographic titled "User choice in sideloading Android apps" that outlines three different scenarios for installing apps outside of a primary app store: Sideloading directly from verified developers: Users can install apps from developers they know via the company's website or other channels. This category notes that there is no change to the current user experience. Sideloading from developers with limited distribution accounts: Users can sideload directly from developers through the specific channels those developers choose. Sideloading from unverified developers with advanced flow: This covers sideloading unregistered apps. It includes "extra safeguards" designed to give the user "critical time and space needed to break the cycle of coercion."

Screenshot from the article that reads: How the advanced flow works for users Enable developer mode in system settings: Activating this is simple. This prevents accidental triggers or "one-tap" bypasses often used in high-pressure scams. Confirm you aren't being coached: There is a quick check to make sure that no one is talking you into turning off your security. While power users know how to vet apps, scammers often pressure victims into disabling protections. Restart your phone and reauthenticate: This cuts off any remote access or active phone calls a scammer might be using to watch what you’re doing. Come back after the protective waiting period and verify: There is a one-time, one-day wait and then you can confirm that this is really you who’s making this change with our biometric authentication (fingerprint or face unlock) or device PIN. Scammers rely on manufactured urgency, so this breaks their spell and gives you time to think. Install apps: Once you confirm you understand the risks, you’re all set to install apps from unverified developers, with the option of enabling for 7 days or indefinitely. For safety, you’ll still see a warning that the app is from an unverified developer, but you can just tap “Install Anyway.”

I think this is a fair compromise. I just hope it won't be inevitable.

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Rebecca Heineman's bluesky profile picture.

RIP to a games industry pioneer and legend, Rebecca Heineman (@burgerbecky.bsky.social) If your unfamiliar, look her up. Her career is like the story of videogames itself.

So my soupy self would spot a particular Chinese SUV in the road and would ask myself, "What does Da Shing mean?"

Folks, it's called the Jetour DASHING.

Twitter really let itself go. See a lot of hate content on the feed. Threads is getting there with the rage bait.

Goddamit, they are the same!

Just logged back in. I deleted whatever twitter account I had left and contemplating on deleting threads as well. haha

Samedt

Calling Khan Satan seems like an oxymoron when you compare the heinous shit McMahon did for decades.

It's in the quote if you read the article.

Twitch Twitch is the world

Coming back from the dead. twitch.tv/jaggies92

Nintendo Direct on the Nintendo Switch 2 watch along tomorrow, April 2, 2025, 9:00 PM.

If anyone wants to VC to react together, just give me a buzz so I can set it up.

Plus, Mario Kart 8 open lobby afterwards.

I was in the restaurant business for 5 years. I work in marketing for 3. But holy crap, you don't need experience to know how atrocious of a statement you're making here.

This better be a power tripping higher up forcing this to come out.

Thank goodness for work from home. I had to Google "spit roast" for a reference pic for work.

Google automatically assumed I was looking for porn.

Tried streaming with my new layout but it refused to cooperate.

The homemaker in me is convinced this would fit in well in the living room.

The degen in me is convinced this would make a great cuck chair.

Hereditary (2018)

HELL YEAH WE ARE SO BACK BABY

A window showing a Windows 98 installation progress with informat

Don't make me go hunting for a period-correct PC now just to experience this natively.

A window showing a Windows 98 installation screen.

The things I do for streaming

Torrie Wilson says bikini matches in WWE were “mortifying” and reveals that she was “fighting back tears” at one event nodq.com/news/torrie-wilson-says-...

People really do suck.

Someone in a local PlayStation group was asked which port to plug his controller to charge and there were some nasty comments thrown his way.

Turns out he has OCD, and because of the backlash, he left the group and sold his PS5.

"WHERE'S THE BUTT? I WANT THE BUTT!"

I screamed to myself, looking at a car online.

Feels weird to hear Statler and Waldorf heckling #TheGameAwards.

If Balatro wins GOTY, I'm streaming it tonight. #TheGameAwards

Lowkey thinking of strengthening my brand name but I must save money

People are so weirdly fixated that they'll call anything woke even if it's anything but.

Crap this means I do have to stream soon

Spent months looking for a CRT monitor for my retro gaming and I finally got a good one for super cheap.

I hate scalpers.

I would like to speak up today for the trans community.

You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

A downside of the Xodus is that racists have a much stronger voice on the platform.

Case in point: see the reactions to the Haka protest in NZ Parliament.

If Celebrity Deathmatch were revived today. Who would you have pit against each other?