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[–] 7 points 2 months ago (14 children)

I'm pretty sure that custom roms will remove that 24hr wait period from their binaries. Android is still open source and removing a check isn't going to be very hard for them.

The tech ecosystem is as open as you can. Use linux. Use SearxNG. Use graphene or other custom roms. There's options out there, you just have to start adopting them instead of just complaining online about having no choice.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (6 children)

    I might have misunderstood that all those years, but custom roms like graphene or lineage all use the AOSP source to build "their" stuff on top. Android itself is all the proprietary shit google adds and probably bunch of proprietary firmware drivers, which isn't relevant in the slightest if you switch to a supported device.

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    Yeah, that's roughly what I thought, in which case switching to graphene (or any other custom rom) would completely "release" you from the proprietary grasp of google and their genius ideas. Because even if they add this 24hr lockdown in the AOSP-Project, graphene could rather easiely revert that change in their fork.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Graphene doesn't, they got their own sandboxed google play services compatibility layer. Other OS - no idea tbh.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Not everybody has a choice. I'm currently on grapheneos, but it looks like I may be forced back to android due to national ID requirements.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If your country forces you on a locked down OS for ID requirements, something is wrong entirely. You should absolutely make some noise against that and urge them to allow custom OS. That's a political issue, not a technical.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's not going to go anywhere in my country, unfortunately. Not even a blip on the radar.

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