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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yea, I did not phrase it well enough 😂 I just don’t want to be supervised by these large phone OS giants, because they think it is more convenient

What do you mean with QEMU? Are you running a Linux VM on your android phone?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was a joke about the fact that PostmarketOS considers only QEMU a "main" device. Every real phone is in the "community" section because they're too buggy. So the only good device to run that OS on is a virtual one running inside your desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

😆I see

I think I would run Arch on such a device