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A little rant about the Android operating system
@android
Everyone felt weird when I said I was using custom ROMs. Most of them haven't heard about anything beyond stock android. I wrote a blog trying to normalise it.
https://text.tchncs.de/czars-blogs/custom-roms-and-my-phone

#Android #OpenSource #Privacy #Linux

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It was a lot more mainstream in the early days of android. When the companies used to lock internet tethering, you had to root to benefit from it.

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