Remember guys, this is why we don't pay for the apps.

This is the app called Franco Kernel Manager, one of the best kernel managers that are out there... Even when it was outdated (which I think that's the cause it got booted from the PlayStore?).

I used it to check the process of my phone and monitor the active and idle drain mostly, I paid for it a long time ago, but now it just fails to check the licence and it doesn't let me use it fully... I think there must be a cracked APK over there...

EDIT:

Fortunately the app is back in the store and hopefully that update version comes soon enough!

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There are lots of reasons to pirate stuff, but this argument in particular boils down to "We should steal stuff now because maybe some day in the future I won't be able to use the paid version after they go out of business." And that is shitty.
You bought it, so go crack it now that the license check is broken and nobody will care. That's GOOD piracy. Support the creators, pirate when you can't or it's unreasonable to pay (more).
Don't just pirate to mitigate theoretical future inconvenience. Do it to circumvent actual inconvenience, or to get things you couldn't otherwise afford, or to say "fuck you" to big, shitty companies.
But pirating from a small-time dev just in case there are maybe license problems far in the future is not The Way
- Couldn't agree more on it being a bad justification for piracy
  Though if you bought it and the license check stops working later I'm not even sure I'd call patching it to work without the check piracy, it's simply fixing something you own
  Yeah you're going to use the same tools but to me I don't see it as piracy but simply a right to repair thing
  
  Yeah, exactly. It's the same reason I have little hesitance pirating a game I already have when the platform I have it on doesn't support mods (looking at you, Xbox game pass)
- okay but if that's your purpose then there's no problem with purchasing and pirating at the same time.
  
  Absolutely. I do that regularly. Purchase to support the creators, pirate to meet some specific use case.
- I think if more people took that path, pirate only when you actually have a problem, much less content would be cracked and piratable.
  Imagine OP and someone who is capable of cracking a software both bought and used this app, then 3 years later the app stops working. OP goes to look for a crack, but one doesn’t exist because the person who would have made it happened to stop using it before they had a need to crack it. So now OP is just boned.
  So I say, always pirate everything and do so asap. And then obviously, if you want things to keep being produced, you should probably support the creators.
  
  "I'm going to steal stuff because if I don't then people who NEED to steal it won't be able to" is some serious mental gymnastics.
  Your argument only works for creating cracks, not consuming them. Absolutely create cracks even when they aren't needed. But that's not the same as using the crack even when you don't need to, just because you can
- Yeah, I agree with you completely, indeed I just posted this as in a meme manner.
  I love FKM and I paid for it even when it was clear the app wasn't going to be updated that much, I usually don't feel any kind of remorse while pirating, but now this is justified and that is good too.
  Regardless this is a good reminder that this can happen anytime with any app or service, being a good or a bad one, having nice or asshole devs/teams behind, and for that piracy will always be a handy solution, I just wish that abandoned apps could somehow being open sourced automatically, but that is a dream.
- Solid.
- I own many many hard books that I've purchased or had ordered from my local bookstores.
  I also have a kindle that I use every evening and have never paid for an ebook.
- So only pirate the stuff you have paid for?
- When the only "valid source" for an app is an app store run by an advertising company that's more then enough to justify it.
  
  "Deprive small indie devs of revenue because advertisers would get a cut" is a bad take. Support small developers or don't use their product. If a small dev chooses to use a platform you don't like then don't use their product.
  IMO piracy is only justified when it corrects for a problem. Doing it without consideration for who is being harmed isn't cool.
  If taking $1 from Google also means taking $5 from a small dev, you're doing more harm than good
  
  Lol, no it's not.

OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!
- uwu kill me
  
  *kiw mwe
- swearing is rare on the fediverse, LETS FUCKING STOP VERY SLIGHTLY VALUABLE LEMMY COMMENT NFT'S BY SWEARING A BIT MORE
  CUNT CUNT CUNT FUCK FUCK
  okay i think im going insane to devalue an nft
  
  What the hell are you talking about
  
  What nft?

You can crack most apps using Lucky Patcher
Make sure you get it from the official website though
- Looks like the luckypatcher.com and .info are both terribly spammy. Even with pureapk the download ended up being something called bluejay. Of course the play store chimed in and said installing it would be a horrible idea. I assume I just picked 3 fake sites to download from
  
  Luckypatchers.com is the real one.
  \ Also you should avoid pureapk, it has malware.
  \ I recommend sticking to apkmirror if the application is available there.
- Is that true? Most of the time I tried it didn't work.
  It has only worked for me with an old game called Nimble Quest so far 😂
  
  Try different things in the selection dialogue before patching.
  If you have root you could install Modded Google Play in Lucky Patcher to automatically succeed License checks
  Mods also exist to crack apps, Mobilism is a good site but be careful what you download from whom
  
  It's works, but it's much more effective on a rooted device.
- TIL, I'm going to have to check this out later for sure
- I'm having a hard time finding the actual lucky patcher. Was it at .com or .info or something else? Please help
  
  This should be the real one: https://www.luckypatchers.com/
  Beware fake download ads though (I've never seen any of those, but people without uBlock might)

"There's an oopsie!"??? This fucking guy deserves to get his apps pirated.
- This is an outdated app at beast, I think he wouldn't care, I hope it resurged though.
  
  There are a lot of processes which Android doesn't let you run anymore, eg how much CPU each app is using.
- Uhm, we had an oopsie. Don't downvote me! Our r/programmerhumor specialists are working on it. Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

Franco was a nut. He did put out some nice android kernel mods though.

It's back on the store.
- Fortunately it is!

IMO if an app is pulled from Google Play their license verification should just return true.
- Yeah, I agree, gladly the app is back in the store... And it even got a very much needed update!

Anyone actually know why it got booted from the PS? I thought it was a maintained app. My favorite kernel manager.
- I think because it has been a long time without any updates, hopefully somebody finds out if this is true.

Anyone can pose as a small and broke dev to say anything against piracy

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