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If you are talking about the addition of microG, that indeed seems like it hasn't been mentioned on the blog, although I'd argue very likely due to an oversight. I can find interna…

> They stopped that malpractice a while ago (last year?). By now it has actually been almost two and a half years. > But they really hurt their credibility with the prior stance, a…

For a slightly more manageable list, the 590 of those that are or were supported officially are also listed on the LineageOS wiki [1]. [1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

Not sure where CalyxOS came up in this?

And it doesn't seem like anything newer than ARMv9.2 is available either, no matter the price point.

Every system and package manager will be affected if it cannot download source code to build a package. NixOS less so, because pretty much all source downloads that are not restric…

> LineageOS was one of the OG de-googled Android ROMs, renamed a few years after Android Jellybean IIRC. Existing since 2009 as CyanogenMod and since 2016 as LineageOS, that would …

It's unfortunate that he uploaded this without notable commit history, it would be interesting to see how long it takes a programmer of his caliber to bring up a project like this.…

That's... cool, I guess?

Not for the ones on the receiving end.

> I can't even fathom what the build system is doing in order to require this amount of storage. A large number of 17 year old repositories, prebuilt toolchains, and the fact that …

There is a guide on how to set up LineageOS for libvirt (i.e. QEMU) [1], but there exist no prebuilt images at this point in time. [1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/libvirt-qemu

As far as I have heard they have not actually secured partner access for themselves, they just got someone who has access to break their NDA.

:^)

> What's wrong with asking to expedite the removal process, considering the process is detailed in the guidelines? Asking is one thing, the other thing is not accepting the decisio…

Couldn't try to (together with Theo / t3) bully the Homebrew developers into a forced takeover of a package [1] if it were a conflict-free name. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/hom…

> My main complain by far to LineageOS is the necessity to wipe everything for major releases on my S10. That's not possible every year. Are you sure that you are not just misinter…

Just so that nobody ends up confused: This is the same topic as posted here [1] a week ago, but presented in a blog post series format instead of as a slide deck. [1] https://news.…

> Screwing up EFI vars doesn't make most systems unbootable. I have corrupted my EFI vars quite a few times trying to do funny things. UEFI implementations do tend to be buggy, but…

> It's already a basically bleeding edge C++. Why is it so much to ask for developers to use a more mature and established iteration so I don't need a brand new compiler? Because C…