My office decided to move from Jabber (Pidgin / Adium) to Slack. Much of the office upgraded computers. Whether Jabber is negligible, Slack used más two to three Gb RAM. It’s simply the most inefficient software I have to Tun continuously on that PC
It still surprises me, although it shouldn't, that many developers try to 'hide' SQL through (in mi opinion, convoluted) ORMs. Although I see the apparent beauty in the simplicity they provide to front-end developers, to me, additional layers will always add complications down the line.
However you could get a developer license and load anything you want on your phone. Granted it's not for everybody, but if you're so incline to sideload apps on your phone you can pretend to be a developer (Meaning you just need to know enough to use the tools available, not in a demeaning way).
On Android, one can sideload an app. Amazon has it's own app store. Chinese Android phones have their own. Android was initially designed with this kind of openness. In fact, Google didn't have an app store initially.
Now, there are pros and cons to these approach.
FB could be side loading Android apps all day long, doing who knows what, and there is not much Google can do about it.
Now, if they were a bit smarter, they could've used a shell company's throwaway certificates.
I cannot fathom why they would do something this shady using their own corporate certificates.
While on the surface this is great, I also find it concerning in the way this is going.
First, you can only access this feature (for now) on a Pixelbook. This is not Android where patches are delivered first on Google's own hardware, or is it?
Then Chrome OS runs no 3rd party apps, but it runs Chrome 'Native' code, which is being phased out, where Chrome acted as a VM. I think Google wanted this to happen very much but opened all sort of backdoors into managed deployments of Windows and macOS.
Then ChromeOS started supporting Android apps, although the experience is very much like running an emulator.
Now it can run Linux on a VM. Fair enough, but it can run Linux only if it's Ubuntu. Ubuntu is fine but it's not the only choice for Linux, and with good reason.
It's called Bidet, from the french word. Bidets are very common in southern Europe.
Bidets are more common in Mexico and parts of Canada than US. Anglo regions are behind on the trend here.