Comment on Google promises a rescue patch for Android 14’s “ransomware” bug

• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So you don’t use an android?

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  • GeneralVincent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope I’m on LineageOS

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honey, that’s still android. That’s like using Edge and saying you’re not using Chrome. Yeah, you are. It’s supporting google’s evil control over an industry by using code from AOSP. Still, you’ll get points in my book for being de-Googled as much as one can be while still using Android.

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      • GeneralVincent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha jokes on you, I lied. I’m not using LineageOS. I’m posting from a Google Chrome web browser on my Chromebook running ChromeOS. I don’t even know what LineageOS is, I just Googled it. Maybe I’ll switch to it after watching a YouTube tutorial on it, but for now my phone is just a rock and a string that I stare at for 3 hours a day ☺️ because I refuse to use Android

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      • walkercricket@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Edge and Chrome are both closed source and owned by companies, so your comparison is just not valid. Using AOSP is certainly not supporting Google’s monopoly: AOSP is totally open source, was bought by Google a long time ago and they don’t own it due to its license (aside from the name maybe). Meaning you can still flash Android on a system without paying or using Google’s services or products.

        It’s like saying you contribute to Google’s monopoly because you use Linux and Google (also) used it in its Chromebooks.

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