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It's great to see vendors doing the right thing. Still, my main ask is upstreamed support. Users should be able to maintain their own devices if they want to.
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
It's great to see vendors doing the right thing.
Still, my main ask is upstreamed support. Users should be able to maintain their own devices if they want to. From the start of ownership to beyond the products end of life. That means I should be able to build my own kernel and send them to the device, and I shouldn't need some vendor fork that will someday rot out to do it.
- wmf 3y agoQualcomm is doing a lot of work on upstreaming for the latest Snapdragon which should be used in the S24.
- wkat4242 3y agoOnly if you're in the Us, China or Korea unfortunately. The S23 had Snapdragon everywhere. The S24 only in those three markets sadly.
- TillE 3y agoGoogle could have built a system like that from the start, where Google-certified Android means you have a vanilla base image, plus (openly available) drivers, plus whatever crap the manufacturer wants to layer on top. Basically not unlike Windows. Unfortunately they didn't do that, so it's still a mess.
- dns_snek 3y agoNot only is Google not making it more open, since 2020 they've been actively working to close the ecosystem down with hardware-backed SafetyNet attestations. https://groups.google.com/g/safetynet-api-clients/c/lpDXBNeV7Fg/m/Ov2H6ZvhBQAJ https://groups.google.com/g/safetynet-api-clients/c/lpDXBNeV... You may be able to build your own OS, but as soon as you unlock that bootloader to install it, all of your banking apps will stop working and there will be no workarounds once hw-backed attestation is mandated.