Of course it’s not necessary, but it’s nice to have - it’s convenient.Thas always the decision you have to make. Either you sell away your data and freedom, and live “convenient”, or you don’t.

I know that some people have gotten Google pay to work on their rooted phone, but I’ve had no luck on my Samsung

Unfortunately it seems to suffer from the same problems that other custom ROMs like GrapheneOS have these days. The same goes for if you root your stock OS. Like all the normal Android stuff works (even better) but as soon as you want to for example use the tap-payment features or the ID stuff from your government it doesn’t work. Also good luck trying to use for example Samsung smartwatches

I know what happened. But maybe with Nothings announcement Apple decided “fuck it” You know?

Seems like Nothing did it?

Termux.

If you don’t know terminal it’s intimidating I guess l, but you can Google how to find duplicates in linux, and xdg-open works well in termux for preview

Be sure to enable allow-external-apps in ~/.termux/termux.properties

I sure there are more user-friendly way to do this but this works 100%

So my boss won’t have to pay me for Microsoft Office, even though I can’t use it on Linux? I suppose that’s a win

I’ve give up on these headlines, every month there seems to be a new battery tech that is to revolutionize the word, but then you never hear of it ever again.

I’m not going to read all that. You were probably pretty right.