A little rant about the Android operating system (mstdn.social)

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A little rant about the Android operating system
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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

google is asshole

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

Out of all the people you could blame, you literally chose to blame the single least affected party here. Google has actually taken great strides to make custom ROMs as easy as humanly possible without stepping on the toes of vendors.

Google does a lot of stuff people should hate, but this is not one of them.

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

Google has actually taken great strides to make custom ROMs as easy as humanly possible

I guess that is besides:

slowly, but surely, stopping development of many AOSP core apps in favour of their own proprietary apps.
ensuring many of their apps are basically unusable with a custom ROM
making it so easy for app devs to block custom ROMs

Dunno, but that's all Google stuff.

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