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Linux Phones

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Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Google has been reducing the amount of AOSP updates released each year.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And moving necessary libraries into Google Play Services instead of having them in AOSP at all.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Because Google absolutely hates everything good and decent now.