Japan prepares regulation requiring Apple to allow sideloading::As the Digital Markets Act antitrust law passed in the European Union, Apple has until March 2024 to let users…

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    11 months ago

    I tried to install an old version of San Andreas recently on my phone cause the last update broke controller support (which I actually bought with money).

    Apparently we don’t own our Android OBB directories anymore because of “safety”.

    So far the “we Android users already have this”…

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      11 months ago

      Yep, it’s unfortunate that manufacturers are taking more and more control away from users. That’s why open-source software like Linux is so important, you can do anything you want to with it.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah Android is Linux. But Manufactures are limiting it so hard that it is sometimes nearly impossible to get a custom ROM on the phone.