Comment by 🐙 norayr
Re: "I put graphene on my Pixel. I then read about google…"
and i need to confess that i don't like the 'keepandroidopen' initiative.
first of all it is misleading people into believing this is about closing the source.
secondly, why would we beg a commercial company to do or not do something?
we should've not expected anything good from capital and we should've all instead using real linux phones, to invest to the projects by just participating.
google as any company will and should do what will bring them and shareholders more money.
and even if we begged and they agreed, do we really want that outcome? that they agreed because we've begged?
Mar 11 · 8 weeks ago
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i think we don't need to have anything in common with begging and being grateful to great kind corporations that gave us wonderful (indeed, though sarcastic) android.
when i use real linux phones and i see imperfections i feel how much better is it than polished os from the big corporation.
i feel relief, i feel that not polished ui is a good sign. (:
@The_Jackal
with all respect to *bsds, the problem is the license.
apple would never be able to create such a stable operating system if they wouldn't take freebsd 7, and add to it their ui, turning it into macos x.
they were struggling trying to improve their system 7 and 8 which were very limited and didn't have real multitasking. they could not do much and did not have money to write such amount of code as they took from freebsd.
it is the license that allowed them to get for granted, literally, decades of work of lots of people, starting from berkley unix, and then close the system and sell closed down/vendor locked overpriced devices to the grandchildren of the authors of the os.
we can say that xiaomi takes 'parts' of code of linux kernel.
it throws away lots of things. jush like i do when i compile my gentoo kernels.
i don't need lots of drivers, i compile only those i need. i don't need slip support for serial communication. and so on.
if we count, perhaps, i build much less than 50% of code linux kernel has.
xiaomi or other phone vendors do the same: get mainline, turn off most of the drivers and features in the config, add their drivers, some mobile specific code, and here is their device specific vendor kernel.
but they have to publish it. because gpl.
ancient history nobody remebers, the latest big bout was llvm, clang, musl, libc++, which saved apple's, google's and nvidia's asses allowing them to keep their toolchains closed, cause gcc was at their throats slowly suffocating them
secondly, why would we beg a commercial company to do or not do something?
you're not begging google though you're begging everyone, most people including devs think that proprietary software is good, you gotta level with them
keepandroidopen kisses google's ass, but it leads you to F-Droid, and if you go to their forum you get any links you post to any proprietary software get instabonked, and gears start turning, it's a process
🚀 lars_the_bear · Mar 11 at 07:54:
When real Linux (or whatever, CP/M maybe...) smartphones become reliable enough to be treated as appliances, I'll be in line with my wallet open. That hasn't been my experience. In the meantime, I can run Lineage or Graphene on my phone, and it's perfectly reliable.
Problem is, so long as Android remains open-ish, few people have much incentive to try to create anything better.So I'm not sure how I feel about keeping Android open, to be honest.
keepandroidopen kisses google's ass, but it leads you to F-Droid
you mean it leads those who uses google android? not leads but allows them to use fdroid?
well yes, i know people who use conversations from fdroid on google android.
but using google android was the mistake in the first place.
they need to realize google humiliates them and switch to something else.
if i have a friend with conversations and google andnoid, i will tell them
you have two options
a) continue being humiliated. to help you i suggest
you to buy conversations from play store, and i'll by you coffee and help you backup existing conversations and migrate.
b) i can install lineage if your device is supported.
idk dude, lead means lead, tellzya instal froid rn, idk what people actually do or what happens tomorrow, they'll probably hate it cause eveyone love DMCA and proprietaty software
is like defectivebydesign, "yeah sure abuse me every which way you want just not that way daddy", it's just some buzz to lead you to free software, cause buzz is king in this industry
Original Post
I put graphene on my Pixel. I then read about google locking apps down. can someone tell me how this affects things like graphene and fdroid? fdroid looks like it's gonna get killed off. can we still put custom ROMs on our phones? what about apps?