Ah, I thought I’d seen this story already:

There is one potential downside to the Risk-Based Update System, as highlighted by the folks behind GrapheneOS, a privacy and security-oriented fork of AOSP. In the past, Google gave OEMs a one-month heads-up. Now, they receive several months of advance notice for the larger quarterly updates. This longer window could be problematic, as it gives bad actors more time to potentially find leaked vulnerability details and develop exploits before patches are widely available. While the private ASB is shared securely, it’s accessible to tens of thousands of engineers across dozens of companies, making it conceivable that details could leak to malicious third parties. This remains a hypothetical risk, though, as it would require bad actors to leverage the right exploit on the right devices before they’re patched.

I saw winboat recommended the other day and was pleasantly surprised at it’s performance, so yeah I’d recommend giving it a try too

I imagine it doesn’t happen that often, but that’s a really nice success story

They made that a premium-only feature a while ago

It’s still not a guarantee. I quite liked neo/omega launcher but there are breaking bugs introduced in the last update over two years ago. Nobody seems interested in fixing them so I moved on.

(Of course anyone has the option of fixing them, and I understand that that’s your point!)

I don’t know if things are different at Microsoft or across the pond in general, but from people I’ve spoken to who’ve been given similar “mandates”, they’re not as compulsory as they first sound. If you’re reasonably good at your job and your manager is keen to keep you then you can get away with just ignoring these rules. More what you’d call “guidelines” and all that.

I’ve never tried it myself but I’ve heard a lot of speedrunners map mouse click (or whatever button they need to spam) to the mouse wheel, that’s probably something you could do in Steam Input (if that’s how you’re running your games)

We’ve got youtube face x4, we’ve got giant arrow, we’ve got a clickbait question, we’ve got RANDOM word CAPITALISATION, what’s not to hate?

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Would part of the process have stressed it enough to kill it? Seems unlikely that after 13 years it would just randomly go exactly as I’m running this command!

Sadly not. I think I had to turn it on for it to be detected by fastboot or adb, and it seems like it’s not even turning on anymore.

Lots of people only have a phone and still want to play games

Use the exact same setup you have, then when she calls and asks you how to do something then you either already know or can check on your own machine!

Oh the card readers? I’ve got about 5 of them, every bank used to give you one when you opened an account. Supposedly they’re pretty secure, too.

In my experience they half-arse it though. For example on GrapheneOS (which is considered significantly more secure than default Android) several banking apps block access because they use some questionable Google Play API which doesn’t recognise GrapheneOS.

Most of them are OK, I’ve not encountered any that are unusable though

What do they do if you don’t have a smartphone? Or was this an account that you could only open in-app?

This was quite literally an episode of Black Mirror, I’m sure nothing can possibly go wrong

I saw a similar story about how an open source software project (I think it was curl) have cancelled their bug bounty programme because it’s being overrun with LLM-generated reports and they don’t have enough volunteers to verify them all. The relevant bit is that while many were doing it for the financial reward, some do it for reputation and some genuinely do think they’re helping by adding info they think is missing but not realising that what they’re posting is unreliable.

True, I guess we’ll see how much trouble it causes