It's a google API that apps can use to check if they're running on a verified system, and unless google graciously allows, alternative OSs will always fail the check, which can make some apps unusable. For example many banking apps do this in the name of security.
Late to the party but this one is too good to pass up:
I was once on a US military ship, having breakfast in the wardroom (officers lounge) when the Operations Officer (OPS) walks in. This guy was the definition of NOT a morning person; he's still half asleep, bleary eyed... basically a zombie with a bagel. He sits down across from me to eat his bagel and is just barely conscious. My back is to the outboard side of the ship, and the morning sun is blazing in one of the portholes putting a big bright-ass circle of light right on his barely conscious face. He's squinting and chewing and basically just remembering how to be alive for today. It's painful to watch.
But then zombie-OPS stops chewing, slowly picks up the phone, and dials the bridge. In his well-known I'm-still-totally-asleep voice, he says "heeeey. It's OPS. Could you... shift our barpat... yeah, one six five. Thanks." And puts the phone down. And then he just sits there. Squinting. Waiting.
And then, ever so slowly, I realize that that big blazing spot of sun has begun to slide off the zombie's face and onto the wall behind him. After a moment it clears his face and he blinks slowly a few times and the brilliant beauty of what I've just witnessed begins to overwhelm me. By ordering the bridge to adjust the ship's back-and-forth patrol by about 15 degrees, he's changed our course just enough to reposition the sun off of his face. He's literally just redirected thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of people so that he could get the sun out of his eyes while he eats his bagel. I am in awe.
He slowly picks up his bagel and for a moment I'm terrified at the thought that his own genius may escape him, that he may never appreciate the epic brilliance of his laziness (since he's not going to wake up for another hour). But between his next bites he pauses, looks at me, and gives me the faintest, sly grin, before returning to gnaw slowly on his zombie bagel.
You guys are being seen?
They don't actually hoard cash, it's more like stocks, so it's not so much hoarding a lot of them, but people assign great imaginary value to them.
(I think, I'm an engineer, not a money scientist)
A sign of a true master.
Technically, probably yes, one way or another...
It's the apps that use the google stuff, so certain banking, governement, and as I recently found out, dating apps (bumble) will simply not work. This is also the reason why google pay and most payment apps won't work https://calyxos.org/docs/guide/getting-started/#calyxos-limitations---calyxos-versus-stock-android
It's a google API that apps can use to check if they're running on a verified system, and unless google graciously allows, alternative OSs will always fail the check, which can make some apps unusable. For example many banking apps do this in the name of security.
This used to be common in soviet occupied countries, except they tried to be quiet about it.
Have you considered reading the article?
Funny thing is, I know exactly which post it is about, and I too have started closing the lid, otherwise I feel uncomfortable when forgetting it.
Not sure why the waiter is frowning, it's not like he made it.
Cry for help feasts.
heh, "carriageway"
Hippos kill a lot more people than sharks.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rgpdf/comment/cdnafqe
It's like the three seashells.
Me trying to fix a bug at work.
If only humans were more like dogs
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