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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2019 19:09:06 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Tried installing Lineage OS on two different phones today. Turned out neither was really possible while having a reasonably recent version.

   Android derivatives are so... weird. Having to build a whole "image" to start your world with? It's a nightmare.

   I can still install GNU/Linux on machines that are 15 years old and they still generally boot and run. And I don't need to build a separate "installer" per machine.

   How the fuck did phones get THIS BAD.

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2019 19:09:42 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Like, if the build system already built it for you, you're kind of ok, but how that system was built is kind of a weird and mysterious and troubling process.

   • Lars Wirzenius (liw@toot.liw.fi)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2019 19:24:21 UTC Lars Wirzenius

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     @cwebber It's like Android is designed and developed by a company that can throw thousands of CPUs at building the operating system.

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
   • see shy jo (joeyh@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2019 20:15:09 UTC see shy jo

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     @cwebber you're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to download some rom from somone with an animated anime avatar in a forum

     I mean, this is clearly documented..

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.