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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2019 19:09:06 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Tried installing Lineage OS on two different phones today. Turned out neither was really possible while having a reasonably recent version.

   Android derivatives are so... weird. Having to build a whole "image" to start your world with? It's a nightmare.

   I can still install GNU/Linux on machines that are 15 years old and they still generally boot and run. And I don't need to build a separate "installer" per machine.

   How the fuck did phones get THIS BAD.

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   • Softwarewolf (faoluin@chitter.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2019 19:38:26 UTC Softwarewolf

     in reply to

     @cwebber "How the fuck did phones get THIS BAD."

     Google.

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   • see shy jo (joeyh@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2019 20:15:09 UTC see shy jo

     @cwebber you're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to download some rom from somone with an animated anime avatar in a forum

     I mean, this is clearly documented..

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   • Bobby Moss (trechnex@bobadon.co.uk)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2019 14:06:51 UTC Bobby Moss

     in reply to

     @cwebber this was exactly my experience with an old Samsung Galaxy S3 I'd picked up specifically for this.

     It was legitimately easier to install Replicant, which is Android without the bits you need for most of the hardware to work 😂

     https://www.replicant.us/

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   • Jason Self (jxself@social.bobcall.me)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2019 15:21:19 UTC Jason Self

     @cwebber Lack of standardization is one reason. x86 machine are pretty homogeneous.

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