As described developer mode is only required at install time. Remains to be seen in the actual implementation, but as described in the post developer mode can be switched off after apps have been side loaded.
I am in the same boat, but apparently it will continue to work. Downside is no more remote control. Editing the schedule via the thermostat is really going to be the real pain point. Though the app/website stopped working for me 6 or more months ago anyway, only the google home app still worked for basic temperature set.
As someone who has done this I take issue with characterizing the certificates as stolen. I exploited a security vulnerability in the device's web UI to extract them, from a piece of equipment I paid for. Its my equipment the provider required me to buy it for service, I can do with it as I please.
I would be in agreement with it if we were using all this to steal service, we just don't want to use their unstable and unacceptable equipment.
I know for a fact they had the grey and colorful models on launch day, I bought the model with the red and blue joycons at mignight on launch day at my local BestBuy. The promo video in this article[1] shows some folks playing bomberman with those joycons about 2/3 in.
It looks[1] like github actions only run on amd64 hosts, so if you use a platform matrix like in this example[2] I am fairly certain it is running under qemu just based on the fact that is takes roughly 10 times longer to run. I am aware of Blaze[3] has arm64 runners.
If you are willing to pay for it, you can also setup a runner that uses AWS Graviton EC2 instances[4], we do that at my workplace for our multi architecture builds.
Just one problem I noticed imminently that prevents me from using this, the docker agent container[1] isn't multi-architecture, this will be an issue on Apple Silicon devices. This is something I have some experience setting up if you are looking for help, though will take some research to figure out how to get going in github actions etc.
From my podcast law degree, in civil action like this yes. To get standing you must show you were harmed in some way and that the court can remedy that harm. That is just one of many parts of the standing test that a federal court will apply.