This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone.

[freshlight@sh.itjust.works]

Ok, I gotta change to Graphene asap

[mangocats@feddit.it]

Doesn't show on my phone or app store, I'm on Android 15 in the US.

[gayhitler@lemmy.ml]

Keeping sealed iodine patches and band aids inside my leather wristbands.

Staying on the edge of the pit to catch anyone who falls or takes a hit.

🧷 safetycore 🧷

[maxhardwood@lemmy.ca]

Not sure why everybody is upset that it's a separate app. Google has been doing this with Android for almost a decade now in order to bring new functionality without needing to update the entire operating system.

[ultimate@lemm.ee]

What's that

[tomawsm@lemmy.world]

I was gonna say, I feel like I've been seeing a new Android system app pretty regularly when checking what needs updating in Google Play.

[sanctus@lemmy.world]

I never got it on mine but maybe thats because I have a fucken Samsung and I've already adb'd away all the shit I dont want

[liz@midwest.social]

I got it on a Pixel 7, but I uninstalled it because I'm not trying to have Google spy on me for yet another reason.

[wogi@lemmy.world]

Basically oscillating the tool up and down while rotating the workpiece back and forth, while spinning the tool very, very slowly.

[maxhardwood@lemmy.ca]

Literally my phone just now

[barryamelton@lemmy.ml]

They have been moving things to apps so they can substitute piecemeal the open source OS with their close sources:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/

That article is from 2018. It has only gotten worse.

[teknikal@eviltoast.org]

Have to be honest first Android lost my support when they did their best kill Micro SD cards then they decided to make connecting mtp only which absolutely ruined using a cable to transfer anything then came the head phone jack being removes.

The final nail on the coffin was scoped storage which made things so much slower it seemed absolutely ridiculous and also stopped you from being able too N files with the app you might have wanted.

At this point I'm kind of hoping something like Tizen or even Harmony Os takes over.

[maxhardwood@lemmy.ca]

I suppose but the other side is OEMs abandoning still functional hardware

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

The technician test is pretty easy if you remember some stuff from physics and you study. https://hamstudy.org/ (you don't need to make an account here to practice).

[aeri@lemmy.world]

Wait how do I restrict apps' access to the inthernet what phone lets me do that

[raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world]

To be fair, I have a Turkish phone that I will need to "fix" if it lets me.

[rmuk@feddit.uk]

Right, because if that's what they wanted to do this is how they'd go about doing it rather than, let's say, using any one of the dozen or so Google-controlled device administrator apps already on your phone.

[tedd_deireadh@lemmy.world]

You can do that with GrapheneOS.

[slumberlust@lemmy.world]

What about LineageOS?

[daddy32@lemmy.world]

If you root it, sure. Unfortunately lots of misguided fools on the internet, including Lineage's authors will try to convince it's not a good idea.