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  • bryndos@fedia.io
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    17 hours ago

    Linux picks a random user out of the hat to prove it - gets someone using android with play services. erm . . . ignore them . . . that doesn’t count.

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      Just because it uses the Linux kernel doesn’t mean it’s real Linux. Google took everything that made Linux good - customisation, root access, privacy, freedom - out of Linux to make Android

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        A lot of that’s still available in AOSP. The devices they actually sell just load a heap of commercial crap on top of that.

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      16 hours ago

      That is the same kind of pedantry as claiming that ketchup is a smoothie because the tomato is a fruit.