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AndrewZabar

@ AndrewZabar @lemmy.world

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  • Google is Killing Open Source Android Apps (Here's Why)

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  • I’ve tested quite a few and most of the differences lay in what kinds of customizations have they built into the settings module. And most of them are aesthetic or things like easy switches. There’s really not much difference at the functional level, except for some come with MicroG integrated already which simply saves you time and occasional nuisance of installing it. But really, whatever you can find that works is good. Ironically, Lineage itself is the most vanilla and least gadgety; most of the others are built on either Lineage or Cyanogen. Understandable since they were early progenitors of the custom ROM if I’m not mistaken.

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  • crDroid is a really good one. I have it on a few devices. Quite a bit older even than yours and it runs beautifully. One of my faves.

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  • Try Iodé, try crDroid, ResurrectionRemix, Havoc, or Bliss. They all have nice features to offer.

    I’m running /e on a Galaxy Note 4 and it’s nice but nothing magical.

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  • /e and others like it are just flavors. I happen to like Bliss and crDroid and several others as well. But they aren’t exactly unique, so whatever ROM will work for what you need is what you should go with.

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  • Google made Android to get a foothold into the market. The free and open model was only because they were up against Apple. Don’t nobody kid yourself into thinking their intent was all along anything other than being able to rake it in and have total control just like Apple. They just needed an in to get big. Now Android is huge and now they wanna slam the door and lock everyone down and start really fucking the cash out of everyone’s asses.

  • How can I get feedback without nuclearization?

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  • Well, maybe someone will start a federated group here on Lemmy. One where there are no restrictions other than typical code of conduct.

  • How can I get feedback without nuclearization?

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  • Hey, total stranger chiming in here just to say that I don’t think the issue is that OP feels like they’re owed feedback, nor that there aren’t plenty of others who want it as well; I think it’s just gotten very prohibitive on the internet where the first priority of any platform has become the legal protections, and so where once there was a flourishing free exchange of ideas on the internet where the knowledge and communication was the priority (anyone remember USENET), it has devolved into lawyers banning everything they can think of all to keep things protected, and so this budding writer can’t just easily find a place to say, “hey everyone, what do you think of this?”

    If I’m wrong and have misunderstood, then I apologize.

  • Where is the "no, f*ck you" button?

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  • The Aurora that f-droid deploys is missing the filter button on searches. I don’t know why. I have an archived apk to install 4.6 I think is the version, which has the filter button. Available if anyone wants it.

    Why would they remove it? Ruins searches.

  • Google can gargle my LineageOS (Just managed to install LineageOS after waiting nearly a week for Motorola to allow bootloader unlocking)

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  • Are we posting rooted and ROM’ed phones here? ‘Cuz I have a cabinet of shock and awe available lol.

  • 2025-09-22

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  • Gosh darn critters ‘n varmints everywhere lol.

  • 2025-09-22

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  • Classic! I remember seeing this one in the first book in which it appeared. I think Gallery 1 perhaps.

  • Looking for software that will allow keyboard/mouse to output to tablet via usb

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  • Thank you, again, for the info. I’ll check out those links. I appreciate it.

  • Looking for software that will allow keyboard/mouse to output to tablet via usb

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  • Thanks this is what I am looking for because everyone else misunderstood that I could run software on the tablet to “host” it. I think there’s some limitation of the USB architecture that makes what I want not really possible except with some very specific computers. I understand it but at the same time I don’t understand why. You can’t output raw signals to USB in a way that something on the other end will just hear that data as pure data. There needs to be some kind of mutual agreement on protocol at the fundamental level, if that’s a sloppy way to phrase it.

    Thanks I’m gonna look into this because it might be worth a small investment to be able to do this going forward with other devices.

    I appreciate your reply. You got what I was asking for. I realize I was not explicit about the unique nature of my needs but you got it.

  • Looking for software that will allow keyboard/mouse to output to tablet via usb

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  • It’s not an anything tablet it’s x86 CPU architecture can run pretty much anything. Originally had a sluggish Win10 but I managed to install a Linux distro. But the idea is to do it without any software on the tablet to run, like even to bring up the BIOS.

  • GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources

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  • Every for-profit entity hates FOSS as a concept, and they hate all the hard-working developers who put in time voluntarily. They hate all of it with a seething passion.

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  • They’re not tightening Android up to protect users, they’re doing it to abuse and exploit them and restrict their ability to circumvent the data mining they conduct. There’s only one way they’d theoretically stop this course of action, and that’s if sales PLUMMET. Which won’t happen because the portion of people willing to abstain from new phone purchases to fight this is minimal.

    There are millions of terrible trends that the consumer market has allowed to happen simply because the vast majority of consumers will bend over, drop trow, lube themselves up and say “Go ahead, I’m ready!” If we united and made an example of one brand and got even a six-month period of a drop in sales by 50% or more, they would beg us to tell them what do we want in return for buying again. We could have all the control we want, but people just don’t have spines.

  • This XDA Forum User does not enjoy Google's restrictions on sideloading lol

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  • Why has every company in the world turned pure evil?

  • This XDA Forum User does not enjoy Google's restrictions on sideloading lol

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  • FYI except for some phones like prepaid cheapies, Motorola always issues the unlock code. I’ve done it on a dozen different Motorola phones. It’s a fairly quick procedure.

    Honestly it has surprised me given the giant plunge in quality that they took around the time of the first Razr until the early Droid units. They seriously dropped the ball and I had pretty much written them off. But nowadays their devices are absolutely beautiful. I’ve changed to custom ROM probably more Motorola units than any other, that’s not to say because of not liking them; I don’t like any stock rom. But Motorolas are just really nice phones. As a supplemental device to my primary phone I use also a Moto G Stylus 5G 2023. The XT2315-1. I’m actually about to ROM Iode onto there soon. But it’s a terrific phone. Just a little skinner than I’m comfortable with but I just put it in a bulky case and it’s fine.

    Just thought I’d let you know, because you seemed to express apprehension at the idea.

  • This XDA Forum User does not enjoy Google's restrictions on sideloading lol

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  • Any Android I can’t either root or change the ROM I will never use. Period.