I’m genuinely surprised it still exists! I remember when you were forced to use it to get the Amazon app, or the Kindle app, or whatever. I thought it was gone years ago.

That’s what I meant, my bad.

Galaxy is a Motorola Samsung brand. I have a Pixel 7 Pro. I don’t know if it’s limited to pixel phones. It might be.

I don’t know what phone you have, but I have a Pixel 7 Pro, and I can simply long press the home key to invoke the “Circle to Search” command, and that will identify any QR code on the screen and overlay a link that I can tap.

Yeah, I think you’re right. (No sarcasm.) I should keep such opinions to myself. I’m not at all against being a maker for the sake of making, actually. I guess I’m just a camera snob. Calling my criticism “pixel peeping” kinda set me off, and I lashed out, but that’s on me. :(

You’re absolutely right. I shouldn’t have said anything. (No sarcasm.)

Haha! You don’t need to peep any pixels to see how terrible that camera is.

I’m just not into Lomo crap. Spend time with a real camera and take good photos. Tinker with your skills as a photographer and not with making toy cameras that you’re going to never use again after one roll of film.

My bad. I shouldn’t have said that.

“Awesome”

I don’t see the point when a used film camera would blow it away by a million miles.

The point is, in fact, to make something, and I shouldn’t be a camera snob.

why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?

Because it’s behavior-based. You can’t tell how software will behave until you run it. And running it means having real human interactions with the software and the environment on your phone. It’s literally impossible to predict what software will do just by reading the code. It’s the Halting Problem. I’m no expert though, and I’m kind of assuming.

And I’m sure that some exploits are detected in the source code by the Play Store when they’re done naively and obiviously.

The full name is VScodium. https://vscodium.com/

Codium is a genus of edible green macroalgae.