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The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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WARNING:

If you buy one of the S7/S9 preloaded models, the camera quality is likely to be quite poor, especially under low light. This is the state of affairs under microG (/lineage), as Samsung ROMs use a proprietary camera library that doesn't carry over. Source: My main phone is an herolte (S7), as the Exynos variants are one of the few phones with separate baseband and application processors.

This should be prominently mentioned on the product page, as it's just going to cause disappointment, regret, and ultimately backlash. Really they should choose an additional model with good camera support to refurbish, and offer the choice as an explicit tradeoff (better quality photos vs better baseband security).

(And if I am completely wrong here because they've somehow fixed or sidestepped this, please correct me. It just doesn't seem likely)

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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This is one of the worst names possible, I'm astounded this made it into a finished product.

Tomorrow: “We’ve heard the community’s concerns, and are happy to announce that in order to address them we are rebranding the /e/ project. Introducing PedOS!”

well done, made me chuckle

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

#73

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This is one of the worst names possible, I'm astounded this made it into a finished product.

Tomorrow: “We’ve heard the community’s concerns, and are happy to announce that in order to address them we are rebranding the /e/ project. Introducing PedOS!”

It's more googlable and gets the project free PR. What's not to like?

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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hentai - pornographic manga and anime. "ecchi" is Japanese for the English letter "H", standing for "hentai", which means perverted or strange.

Specifically /e/ is the board for softcore images of that nature, while /h/ (hentai) is for hardcore images (and /d/ is, well...)

... Females with large phalluses.

Re: The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

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post #21

Bromite author here ( https://www.bromite.org ); I was contacted some time ago about the possibility to maintain a modified version of Bromite with a customised /e/ home page and list of search engines. Nothing particularly murky there, but after some Q/A I did not want to proceed with this type of cross-branding because fundamentally I do not want Bromite to be using or be affiliated with any cloud service and I con…

I get an error in fdroid trying to add the repo. Error getting fdroid index file - > No mirrors available.

Yes, there have been some issues reliability with the host; they should be solved now, see also: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/378
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