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by phh 6y ago
FWIW, nowadays, thanks to Project Treble, most ROMs have GSI (Generic System Image) that will work on any device released with Android 8 or more recent, assuming OEM allows bootloader unlock.
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by phh 6y ago
/e/ is a fork of LineageOS with the goal to be usable by non-geeks. So it pre-includes a selection of FLOSS apps to make the device usable, like a Map app, cloud backups (well LineageOS now have it), calendar sync, etc.
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by phh 6y ago
I don't know if ECC is that important, but reliability of RAM (or any storage) feels pretty crazy to me. 128GB being refreshed every second for a month error requires that the per-bit refresh process has a reliability of 99.99999999999
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by phh 6y ago
> The key part of this announcement for me is the last sentence, where they announce a deal with Qualcomm for extended security update support. ... in exchange for no longer having to upgrade their drivers. In my opinion they are the wi
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by phh 6y ago
To me, they are more fire and forget with this change, than without. Before this, they had to upgrade their stack to be ""state of the art"" for 2 or 3 versions after an SoC release. Now they no longer need to. They only
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by phh 6y ago
My opinion is this is a very welcome move. But I don't expect OEMs to greatly improve their device's support liftime: the industry is still not incentivized towards supporting a device for 4 years. On that point, please note how t
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by phh 6y ago
This is a pretty complicated subject, but the global TL;DR, is that until now, OEMs required support from all of Google, SoC vendor, ODM to manage major Android upgrades, and OEM to manage to upgrade to newer Android versions. This was supp
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Google unleashes Project Treble for 4 years smartphones support(android-developers.googleblog.com)
39 points by phh 6y ago|16 comments
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by phh 6y ago
Nope. It's Google apps. Users aren't asked for a choice there. And then maybe "what app a user selects", if the user manages to follow the procedure.
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by phh 6y ago
As a hacker, Android feel much more free than before. Because I can flash whichever ROM on pretty much whichever device I want. (assuming OEM didn't lock down bootloader unlock, which is pretty rare those days) I have my own ROM on sma
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by phh 6y ago
Thx GSI isn't specifically for Pixel 1 and 2, but they can use those, just like every other device whose OEM have abandonned them, since it is a generic image.
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by phh 6y ago
Project Treble didn't fix anything (I'm very happy with Project Treble, because it lets me hack stuff I couldn't begin to imagine with 4 yrs ago, but that's just hack). It didn't even fix Nexus/Pixels that sti
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by phh 6y ago
When reading this, it feels like the goal of those projects have derived? For me, the "goal" of mainline GNU/Linux smartphones is that we get like PCs. I prefer fedora, you prefer Debian, they prefer Slackware, all is well, w
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by phh 6y ago
Yup this should work on most Android smartphones.
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by phh 6y ago
Ah I didn't know that thanks. That's still pretty little though, but I guess that's a gesture in the right direction.
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by phh 6y ago
That's a globally incoherent mess, I'll try to summarize, but the TL;DR is that depending on the device and on the streaming service, it ranges from "it'll just work after bootloader unlock" to "nope, there is
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by phh 6y ago
I don't think the graveyard of Android privacy forks is that big? All I can think of is CopperheadOS which died because it was company-backed. You could argue CyanogenMod died, though really it's still well alive in LineageOS. (an
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by phh 6y ago
Nowadays I single-handledly (well almost, I do have some contributors, thanks to them) maintain a pure unmodified Android that works on hundreds (probably thousands) of different devices. It has become a lot easier thanks to Project Treble.
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by phh 6y ago
Yeah, I expected them to rollback that policy in light to this, and let gray market hit EU/USA with reflashed devices. I even received some weird bug issues on my ROM ( https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experiment
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by phh 6y ago
> Even with Samsung and other manufacturers, they are the only additional party whose packages have admin rights. It depends on what you call "admin rights", but from my point of view you're wrong. On Samsung devices, DT I
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by phh 6y ago
For the "EC" of ECMP and for the "TCP" of MPTCP. I'm only half-joking: MPTCP works just fine on different internet connections, while ECMP assumes everything has the same bandwidth. And the MPTCP gives the reliabili
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by phh 6y ago
It's not a nitpick in this context, since Wine on Android will only run ARM64 binaries (unless you have one of those few x86 Android devices)
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by phh 6y ago
I've started developing something like that, and I started by noticing like you that basing on screentime isn't fair to apps that are purely in background, so I tried to compensate for that. Then I found that some apps, even thoug
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by phh 6y ago
Well yes, it is used by Android SDK emulator (despite the name, it's just a x86 VM)
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by phh 6y ago
Those extra buttons are requirement by those companies, to integrate those services in the TV. Now you could argue as to whether you want Netflix preinstalled on your TV, but while most smart features of smart TVs are useless, having Netfli
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by phh 6y ago
Uh... No... it has been released at end of 2016. It received 3 years of software upgrade, which most high-end Android OEMs deliver, (Though it got 3 major upgrades, while most OEMs stop at 2), and pales in comparaison to iPhones.
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by phh 6y ago
I know you can't infer it from my post, but I'm totally on the side that pretty much no device should have secrets to protect, and the vast majority of secure boot features are anti-consumer. However I still think it's intere
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by phh 6y ago
IMO that's more an issue with (customer) WiFi, than the device itself. WiFi is the very last place where people living together have to share one common secret for their security, and that's pretty ridiculous. At least with WPA3 w
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by phh 6y ago
That's a pretty nice write-up, and continues to show why hardened hardware is needed, not just software, if you actually have secrets to protect. One thing that struck me is "After running these experiments for more than a day, re
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by phh 6y ago
Compared to the internet, the Minitel lacked infrastructure: The Minitel was inherently Peer-To-Peer but only one peer at a time.

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