▲ 672 ▼ Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com) submitted 3 years ago by CriticalMiss@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 118 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) What do you mean by "running Linux"? Android is Linux. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) By that logic MacOS is FreeBSD. Android has a modified Linux kernel, doesn't run GNU software or basically any Linux applications natively and it has a bunch of Google proprietary crap on top of it, when I mean "running Linux" I mean running a FOSS GNU/Linux distro. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) There's Android forks out there that avoid Google's crap. LineageOS and GrapheneOS come to mind. Though I'm less familiar with all that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 years ago I know, but you're still at the mercy of Google's upstream codebase. Don't get me wrong, degooglefying Android is better than nothing but it's not the ideal we should be striving for. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) By that logic MacOS is FreeBSD. Android has a modified Linux kernel, doesn't run GNU software or basically any Linux applications natively and it has a bunch of Google proprietary crap on top of it, when I mean "running Linux" I mean running a FOSS GNU/Linux distro. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) There's Android forks out there that avoid Google's crap. LineageOS and GrapheneOS come to mind. Though I'm less familiar with all that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 years ago I know, but you're still at the mercy of Google's upstream codebase. Don't get me wrong, degooglefying Android is better than nothing but it's not the ideal we should be striving for. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) There's Android forks out there that avoid Google's crap. LineageOS and GrapheneOS come to mind. Though I'm less familiar with all that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 years ago I know, but you're still at the mercy of Google's upstream codebase. Don't get me wrong, degooglefying Android is better than nothing but it's not the ideal we should be striving for. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 years ago I know, but you're still at the mercy of Google's upstream codebase. Don't get me wrong, degooglefying Android is better than nothing but it's not the ideal we should be striving for. permalink fedilink source parent