• Arcden@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    This is what I’m afraid of too. I could see apps like fdroid and the ability to install custom roms being taken away within the next year or two. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t have a good feeling. I need Linux phones to be a thing now more than ever.

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      51 minutes ago

      Wdym by “you could see” as if its not whats already announced to be happening. Fdroid will not cooperate with googles app verification process which means Fdroid will stop working on all google certified devices, meaning everything other than devices with custom ROMs. NewPipe also announced they wont get google verified meaning it will stop working too.

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      I need Linux phones to be a thing now more than ever.

      This doesn’t happen in a vacuum. If you’re not already, find a project and contribute towards it some way.

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        I assume you either mean financially or in terms of general support and word of mouth. Trust me, I wish I could be a dev so, so badly, but as interesting as code and computers are, I’m light years away from getting in there and being able to fuck with shit. I love learning about programming, but I’m not the best at actually learning it. lmao

        I say, as I sit in a first level computer science class, typing this because I’m totally lost in the actual lecture.