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> Google, this small tech company (correct me if I'm wrong), is peddling source code via tarballs on google drive. What is the context for this? It's not clear from the linked social media post. The Android kernel source code is in git: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/ Plus there's a lot of other Android source hosted on Google's git servers: https://android.googlesource.com/
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This is how a multibillion company that benefited infinitely from open source pays back.
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Google hasn't been able to properly do / fix Android gesture navigation for more than half a decade now. The amount that edge swipes in things like photo editing apps are detected as backswipes (sometimes destroying 10+ minutes of editing) is laughable. Technically this is because a lot of apps thumb their nose at the requirement to have safe areas around swipeable elements in their app, but as a user, that is not my…
Also, I have 6GB of RAM in my phone - switching from a browser to youtube, or vice-versa, should not cause the other to clear and start back again from a freshly-loaded state.
350,000 a year and people can't even get basic things to operate properly. Google needs broken up and their engineers need to go back to the 90s and learn some real programming skill.
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My broker has a much more fully featured web app then it does on iOS or Android. You can do things in a browser that the phone apps will send you to a browser to do. BofA is just as good of a web app. Maybe people are just used to using their phones?
Can you deposit checks from the webapp? That is the feature most often missing in banking webapps. It isn't something I need often, fortunately.
I've never really understood why we chase Android-alikes on mobile platforms instead of trying to build on mainstream Linux. I know some folks in the nix community (nix-on-droid and other projects) have tried to bring us closer to this, but projects like Graphene seem to have a lot of traction.
Because without Android I can't run WhatsApp and my bank's app on my phone, which promptly reduces it to a paperweight. I wish it wasn't so, but reality refuses to cooperate, so let's just be happy that we've got GrapheneOS which is so good it has its own column in Cellebrite's support matrix.
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And you have to fill out a Google Form to get that link in the first place. > I just want to get rid of forms. Like, I never want to fill out a form again. The opening line from this interview with Sameer Samat on the Google for Developers YouTube channel in June. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvVsdZL2ogY
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Google hasn't been able to properly do / fix Android gesture navigation for more than half a decade now. The amount that edge swipes in things like photo editing apps are detected as backswipes (sometimes destroying 10+ minutes of editing) is laughable. Technically this is because a lot of apps thumb their nose at the requirement to have safe areas around swipeable elements in their app, but as a user, that is not my…
I use an Android tablet and I only backswipe at the upper left.
High end Motorola phones :((( where is my Graphene flip phone?
Specific devices: >At the time of writing, within ~12 months, in 2027, the 2027 Signature, Razr fold, and Razr flip will meet the hardware security requirements and should have official GrapheneOS support. Motorola is currently porting GrapheneOS to their devices. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038982
What I hope is that a compact and high-end device will have Graphene support.
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> AOSP is only more "secure" because, on some devices like Pixels, it exploits hardware features typically not found on general purpose computers. You don't think, say, isolating apps has anything to do with it?
Why are we acting like isolating software is impossible on Linux? It isnt even difficult, there are about a dozen different models to choose from.