• fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    You absolutely can… Custom ROMs do just that.

    Your phone has to support it. It’s not a Google wall. Your phone maker determines how difficult or easy this is. Google pixels make it rather easy to install Graphene on. Motorola is also going to support Graphene.

    There’s also lineage and e/os/ and even non-AOSP-based postmarketOS(which is a Linux distro.)

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      1 day ago

      Which is not as libre as a computer OS. What I mean is that Google has complete control and power over it as it’s not developed by the community and therefore doesn’t do its best interests

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        31 minutes ago

        Android used to be a little more diverse.

        But it’s been limited to the launcher(shell) mostly.

        What do you think are in the best interest of the community that Google isn’t doing? Do you have any less contentious examples? As a technical support specialist I’ve talked to numerous dipshits that were talked into installing a virus on their own Computer system or phone or other device.

        Some people are really really really fucking gullible.