I do all my torrenting and repack installs on a Windows VM and then move everything over to a drive that i can access from my OS. I would use VPN on my Linux OS, but it’s leaked too much in the past so i don’t trust it.
Network namespaces are great for this. You can start a WireGuard interface in the default namespace, so it has network access to talk to its endpoint, then move it into a new namespace. Any process confined to that namespace will only see the WireGuard interface and not be able leak anything.
Just torrent the rom and use an emulator. It's literally the same exact thing, except you launch the game from your emulator instead of a .exe
Just gonna keep getting worse, especially now that Cuckdroid is planning to only let you install software from appstores- No more installing whatever you want on the hardware you paid for.
They already tried with Windows RT and now slowly more measures are being rolled out disguised as chain of trust security improvements.
Can you be more specific? Because even places like APKPure are technically app "stores".
You can download the app from wherever you want, but you can't install it unless it's been verified by them.
Sucks, but there's no point being all doom and gloom about it. Maybe this will increase interest in alternatives like Postmarket or Graphene, provided the silicone itself does not get locked down, which very well might follow suit. At that point the good ol' Nokia brick + pocket PC might be the saner option ironically enough.
I was already disappointed with having to use Android this year following the 3G shutdown in my area.
I just want my symbian phone back, man. My E90 was perfect for on the go computing needs and I could write whatever software I wanted for it.
May I suggest looking into Planet Computers' PDAs? Last I checked they're working with the Kali people to get nethunter running on their devices. Not quite Symbian, but Nethunter Pro is essentially as good or better than other phone Linuxes (plus you get a bunch of tools that make you feel like le hackerman).I was already disappointed with having to use Android this year following the 3G shutdown in my area.
Planet Computers is defunct; I tried ordering from them, they never shipped or refunded my money. They had some kind of bankruptcy thing a couple years ago. Support for their Debian fork is also nonexistent nowadays sadly. Otherwise I would have loved a Gemini PDA. Maybe I'll look into running Kali on a used one at some point.
Oh, cool. Partial function for the battery, screen, touchscreen, and wifi, and the camera, audio, sms, and ability to make calls are all broken.