Heh yeah I hear that.

No everything should be working it’s just not. Eventually I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

Not installing from Play store! Yes rooted, yes, unlocked bootloader and TWRP. And it was this way before, too, when it worked fine. I really don’t think Play store or services are involved at all. I even disabled them. No change.

I’m gonna give it a try tomorrow actually. Will fup if anything develops. Thanks for the reminder. Hmmm maybe this would also be a good opportunity to setup and test ADB over network.

I’m not installing from Play, I’m just using an apk file via package installer.

The iOS App Store is possibly worse even. A complete cesspool of bottom-feeders, garbage, and anything that’s free gets buried because they only want the money-makers to be seen.

They’re laughing because they did the inky ring eye prank on him.

As I said everything is the same. I just reset using the Android reset. I tried using an advanced installer app and it claimed it was a Split apk - which it is not. That can happen if it doesn’t recognize the problem, it just throws up whatever is first in line.

Very weird shit. Its actually more than one app having this problem. I’ll figure it out eventually.

Also, the thing is, I have installed this on a dozen phones of differing Android versions and different phone models etc. with no problem. I think I have got it on some devices running Android 6 even.

I will certainly give it a try, thank you! Actually I’m a bit under the weather and not thinking too clearly because I didn’t even think to try installing via ADB with I assume has command line arguments to skip the SDK level. Actually I do have an advanced installer app, which I haven’t yet thoroughly explored; maybe it, too, can handle this.

I’m using neither, I am just installing with an APK file, as stated in my post.

99% of YouTube nowadays is clickbait and AI generated sewage. Along with plenty of the rest of the net. Before it was AI it was done with bots and scripts; it’s infesting everywhere.Everything decent has to get ruined by bottom-feeders.

I know you were just being glib, but I feel compelled to point out that given its context, it was only used as one might say “AI is all well and good, but…”, like just using it to get to the real point, which is that in-and-of itself, without a person acting upon the AI’s results, it is actually not great at all. Like any tool, it has to be used to help you accomplish something and not just set about to do your entire job for you. So he was actually saying the opposite.

It extrapolates and uses AI to guess the details. Don’t you want AI?! Everyone wants AI! /s

This kind of schtick is in lieu of adding anything of substance for new models.

I think pretty much any of the mainstream distros can be trusted as long as you make sure to check for any “opt-in” voluntary things that many people choose to allow. It’s good to help the developers do a better job ongoing to keep the distros as good as they can be. So if you have a reason to not want any of it, just check the options to make sure you know they’re shut off.

There are probably some distros which explicitly make a point to have absolutely no data sent, but you need to take into consideration what the best distro is for your needs irrespective of this one factor, since none are going to do this behind your back to the magnitude of Windoze or ChromeOS.

I have an Lposed module that you can indicate which apps you want to block updates for so they don’t get updated, regardless what any given shop tries. Easier than toggling it off for all those specific apps within each of Fdroid, Droidify, and Aurora.

There’s also Obtanium that lets you do updates a different way as well.

As for removing apps you can do so on any brew as long as you have root privileges. Sometimes you can even without, via ADB unless they’ve prevented it.

So I mean basically Linux phone doesn’t really need to be used as a way of making this an easier thing to accomplish. Root is right away the ultimate solution, and a custom ROM even better.

I don’t think I know what rocm is 🤪

Brave New World got it even better because in that book, everyone welcomed oppression with open arms and celebrated it.

Psssst. They’re “in on it.”

And the typical consumer has no critical thinking skills and also, is ignorant, and very often a moron, and a sucker. People aren’t smart. The appliances are lol. And the people at the top of giant companies have a greed that is insatiable.