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   MortSinyx (cnx@awkward.place)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 20:15:52 JST MortSinyx

   The meme about Linux being difficult to set up was probably definitely not about installing GNU or GNU-like distributions, but Android.

   In the last decade I've install over a dozen of free operating systems on four different architectures, many times on a chroot, and bootstrapping has always been a single step. A child could do it. How do I know? I was something of a child meself.

   LineageOS? Thou needst to sacrifice 2 goats, summon a devil, sell thy soul for a holy sword to kill the same fucker to make some devil wellington. Upon savoring such delicacy, thou shalt finally gain the strength to flash the image flasher.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 20:15:51 JST 翠星石

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     @cnx It's odd that memes use the wrong names instead of the relevant one.
     
     Unsurprisingly, the only free version of Android is a breeze to install; https://replicant.us/
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 20:25:42 JST 翠星石

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     @cnx >i'll manage to get me hands on wouldof a zombie of a batterie aniewei
     You can cheaply get your hands on a new battery and you just put it in (most devices have swappable batteries).
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     MortSinyx (cnx@awkward.place)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 20:25:43 JST MortSinyx

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     sure, @Suiseiseki, but its supported devices are so old that any nth-hand phone i'll manage to get me hands on wouldof a zombie of a batterie aniewei

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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 00:34:28 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @cnx Linux used to just be really hard to install, for a long time I wouldn't use Debian because the installer was so weird.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 15:15:18 JST 翠星石

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     • Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧
     @jeffcliff @cnx It isn't - the offered images contain lots of proprietary libraries, including google spyware (like google play).
     
     Even the wikipedia page admits that it's proprietary software.
     
     google SDK's required to build Android are proprietary software, thus to get a free version of Android-AMD64, you would need to download a free SDK, remove all the proprietary libraries (difficult as they're often not marked as such) and spend 80 hours getting it to compile with such free SDK.
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     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 15:15:19 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

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     @Suiseiseki @cnx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android-x86 is free??