They should make a Google that’s just a pile of smouldering ashes

This boost brought to you by yet another instance of Google making Android objectively worse
https://www.androidauthority.com/aosp-source-code-schedule-3630018/

Fork time? :3c

@tk I don’t have the resources or knowledge to try something like that. All I can really do is bitch and moan about it. :|

Oh, I wasn't volunteering you. :P

I'm sure folks are going to fork it with this happening, and one of those forks will end up winning out. (An existing fork might end up winning, too.)

@meadow @maddy Apple/iOS is still far from being the lesser evil. The source code has been released exactly 0 times (which is still less than twice a year), and I don't think it's ever been possible to run your own software without either re-signing your apps every 7 days or paying Apple absurd amounts of money ($99/year + the requirement to have a mac).

If you want something that's better, the choices are either various Android distros that are going to become increasingly difficult to maintain (and are now going to get delayed security updates), or non-Android mobile Linux distros like postmarketOS (which are still quite incomplete and lacking hardware support, but I think are definitely the long-term solution).

@maddy
Is that not today's Google?

@maddy it would probably work better than the current Google Search

@maddy You used to be cool, Google. You know a company’s gone rotten when they removed their motto “Don’t be evil”.

@maddy
so the company that discontinued the slogan “don’t be evil” shuttered a cancer research company

sounds about right

@maddy i wish it was more often, i want to find out why my phone randomly has its bluetooth stack restart :/

@maddy well it was kinda inevitable, for profit medical research is always ehhh :p
plus we got alphafold @Home its called folding@home and it actually advanced science in a meaningful way ≥^YUwUY^≤ :3