Or take it a step further: https://github.com/RandomCoderOrg/ubuntu-on-android (Edit: don’t even need root for this)

Also: https://github.com/termux/proot-distro

I thought we were talking exclusively about desktops. My bad.

But not all of the data shows desktops only. The ones I linked for Japan and Africa are for computer ownership in general.

Yes. It’s even extreme in some places. For example, more than half of Australian households reported in a 2022 survey that they never accessed the internet from a desktop PC that year (source; also, paywall warning). In Hungary, desktop ownership dropped from 47.5% in 2014 to 39.2% 2019. It’s safe to assume the downwards trend has continued into 2023.

Japan dropped from 81.7% in 2013 to 69% in 2022 (this is for PC ownership in general and doesn’t differentiate between desktops and laptops) and Germany dropped from 64.5% (desktops) in 2006 to 42.9% in 2022.

Even African countries, which had depressingly low computer ownership to begin with, have seen a stagnation at around 7.5% (yes, it’s that low) between 2015 and 2019.

These are just a few examples, but you’ll see a similar trend everywhere you look. Looking at these statistics reminds me of this Apple ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfR_Jj4grZE

Edit: WTH, Spain?

Here’s an actual CD:

Oh no…

This always makes me laugh (IRC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

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On the other hand…

Please put a NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

Backups were a nice-to-have in the planning.

Edit: Alternative Piped link: https://piped.privacydev.net/watch?v=5p8wTOr8AbU

+1 for Joplin. I have a different setup since I don’t use Nextcloud: Run Joplin server in a docker container and back up the volumes mapped to it (as well as those of other containers) with rsync.

Oh, I didn’t notice it’s dead. I just had it bookmarked because I remember spending a lot of time trying all sorts of workarounds before it and none of them ever worked (for CTS).

I used this for Android 11; there’s a good chance it’ll still work for that version. But like I said, I ended up not needing it anyway - my phone doesn’t even have NFC! I think I mostly just did it as a FU to Google rather than for actual utility. :D

Just thought it worth mentioning that there are/were workarounds for CTS. Don’t know how things are now on Android 12 and 13.

https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/MagiskHidePropsConf

This can help you pass CTS. It worked for me. Funny thing is, I don’t even remember which app I did it for. Whatever it was, I ended up not using it after all the trouble. As for my banking apps, they only care about root, so Magisk’s denylist does the job.

This reminds me of an underrated tool: http://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/

Some had hilarious protections where the game would screw the player if detected

I will never forget that one day one of my high school friends called me after I’d hooked him up with a pirated version of Crysis and yelled into the phone: “WHY IS MY GUN FIRING CHICKENS?! I CAN’T KILL ANYTHING!”

This is probably where it started: https://lemmy.world/post/1003519