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This would suppose people have a "corrupt" nature that they have or don't have, and have no desire nor ability to change. Doubtful, personally.

Power, however small, has a large potential for corruption.

I mean, if you're ready to ditch an entire OS, your privacy, and deal with all of Windows' bullshit because of it, I'd say it's absolutely GTK hatred lol

I will say that they made a great point, though. The White House, the Trump camp, I mean. They asked why we didn't care about this so much when Biden was president.

I'd say Trump literally making releasing the files part of his campaign then pulling back as soon as he was elected might play a part...

Fair.

Yeaaah, doing this would mean the death of anything I enjoy outside of work and the wife and kids.

They've been moving more and more out of AOSP into their Play Services for a good while now. However I suspect OP was referring to their announcement that they'll require developer verification, and apps to be signed with a certificate they issue, for any app install on a verified device (read any device sold with the Play Store). Long story short, no more building and distributing APKs without Google knowing who you are and that your app exists.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html

I realized my mistake too late. Oh well, let the Genª have some fun.

If that's what he's doing, he apparently decided to divinely inspire 6-7 major textual families of the Bible instead.

That’s the thing, downloading from another source is not opposed to downloading from the official store. It’s the same thing - downloading an executable and installing it on your device - with a different UX and warning screens.

Am I understanding that Finnish has a way to combine words without being considered to be a compound? My very limited exposure to compound words (through German) was the very idea of mashing the words together made them compound.

Audition, Photoshop and Cubase you’ll probably have the hardest time to truly replace. Even more if you rely on third party plugins for either of those.