I wouldn’t buy a used Lenovo right now. There’s a lot of 13th/14th gen Intel trash blowing around out there right now that’s been silently damaged already. There are Ryzen based Lenovos but those aren’t as common.
That’s absolutely a motivator for Google but simply leaving things open ended also means they can’t enforce anything at all.
Scammer: -releases scammer shady product-
Google: we don’t want you using our products to scam users. We are blocking this.
Scammer: fine, I’ll throw it on an alt store and create errors when it’s run on an unmodified device. I’ll just require users switch to scamROM.
Google: fine, we’ll let you in the play store.
This is unfortunately true. I’m not saying this is something that will stop all malware or that I even like the damn thing. But it does have some valid uses.
No, it’s too much to demand but simply asking they keep the interface as clean looking as any other free cross platform open source project is not an outlandish request.
You can’t say anything negative about Israel. You can’t access porn without telling your government and the provider who you are first. They keep trying to kill encryption and will eventually succeed. They are moving on requiring identification to use a VPN now.
Increased surveillance has literally never made people safer. It’s made them vulnerable.
Everyone should support rust. It’s a good idea. It prevents an entire class of vulnerabilities. But the old guard says “just stop making mistakes and C is fine” which is an incredibly dumb thing to say but here we are.
Rust is encroaching on their territory and they don’t want to learn the new thing, and newbs don’t see many compelling reasons to learn the old thing, so they are fighting eachother.
I wouldn’t buy a used Lenovo right now. There’s a lot of 13th/14th gen Intel trash blowing around out there right now that’s been silently damaged already. There are Ryzen based Lenovos but those aren’t as common.