630: Google's Garden Lockdown
LINUX Unplugged
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This chapter explores Google's potential restrictions on sideloading for Android devices, along with the hosts' perspectives on the ramifications of such changes. They also announce their participation in the Texas Linux Festival and introduce Defined Networking's Managed Nebula VPN service, emphasizing its capabilities.
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Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.
Sponsored By:
- Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
- 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
- Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Links:
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- DECbot/nebula-cert-maker: Simple yaml and python script to create certificates for your Nebula Mesh VPN — The Nebula Cert Maker will create a new Nebula CA certificates and then generate and sign certificates for all hosts in the host list.
- Texas Linux Festival 2025
- JB TXLF Matrix Room
- Jupiter Broadcasting Garage
- Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained" — Linus Torvalds updated the maintainers file for Bcachefs and now reflects its upstream state as "externally maintained" rather than "supported".
- Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year — Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.
- Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devices
- Android developer verification
- nixos-avf: NixOS for Android Terminal — This profile contains the necesarry services and kernel configs to get it running under the Terminal app
- nixos-avf-image-app releases
- NixOS VM on my phone lol (Android Virtualization Framework) - NixOS Discourse
- Setup SSH and Tailscale on Android 15 Linux Terminal App
- droid-nixos — NixOS VM on the Android "Terminal" app
- ttyd: Share your terminal over the web
- Introduction - Book of crosvm
- crosvm: The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor
- Android 16 New Feature Terminal (Debian 12) Actual Test: Network Configuration and Software Installation
- 💻 How to Install Android 16 Linux Terminal with GUI Mode on Your Android Phone Step-by-Step Guide
- Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!
- Android 16 Terminal Debian GUI Access Tool — This script is specifically designed for terminal environments on Android 16 systems, enabling quick configuration of graphical interface access for Debian 12. After configuration, you can access the native Debian 12 GUI environment within the Android terminal from your PC through the following steps
- wansview 2K Security Cameras Wireless — Outdoor-2.4G WiFi Home Security Cameras via Remote Control with Phone APP for 360º View, Color Night Vision, 24/7 SD Card Storage.
- Thingino — Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras.
- themactep/thingino-firmware: Open-source firmware for Ingenic SoC IP cameras
- paperless-upload-thunderbird — Add-On for Thunderbird to upload PDF directly to paperless-ngx
- distrostu's nix config
- Flameshot — Open source screenshot software
- Hyprshot — A utility to easily take screenshots in Hyprland
- blendOS — Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomic
- Frigate NVR — Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home.
- Pick: Kvaesitso — A search-focused, free and open source launcher for Android
- Jonas Hietala: I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS — I use the Kvaesitso launcher.
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