You won’t need a flip phone, a Nexus or OPO will work as well.

Missing one or two zeros, but could be agood start if it is actually done

Just abolish DMCA and hvae companies defend their intellectual property in courts instead of bribing the government in doing it.

I highly doubt AOSP can’t mantain itself, and that manufacturers could build from it and do whatever.

Vanced

I hope you mean ReVanced, otherwise… bBoy, I’ve got some news for you.

Was that directed to me or the one above me?

Neon is not a daily driver. Other people in the thread have suggested Debian KDE and Kubuntu

There are some alternatives to the default apk installers

That’t the neat part, they don’t. They’re still very niche

Isn’t Waydroid shady?

Doesn’t Massgrave have mirrors exactly for that reason?

Perfect is the enemy of good. It fits most people’s use case.

Oracle, maybe

So basically remove Google integration from AOSP?

Buy used

AOSP is not closing, the device trees for all older pixels are still there

Or, as GOP says, “Fuck your feelings”

I haven’t ever complained about not getting piracy results because I don’t use search engines for that (there are some piracy indexes that work just as well)

I may as well try Yandex for piracy, because USA has been as bad if not worse than Russia against Europe. This is basically choosing the lesser evil.

…Yandex, you mean Russia?

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