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submitted 2 days ago by lzfm@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google has made it harder to build custom Android ROMs for Pixel phones by omitting their device trees and driver binaries from the latest AOSP release.
The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.
While Google insists AOSP isn’t going away, developers must now reverse-engineer changes, making the process for supporting Pixel devices more difficult.

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[–] malwieder@feddit.org 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That was bound to happen at some point. Buying a Google device to then "degoogle" it never sit quite right with me.

[–] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 day ago

I bought mine secondhand because I had a bad feeling about giving google money just to degoogle as well but still really wanted to use GrapheneOS

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Amen but here we are