Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source capacity over the last decade.

Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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  • @[email protected]English
    2•4 days ago

    do you have the ability to remove whichever apps you dont like?

    The user notitication makes sense, i guess its more secure. Btw, so everytime you switch user, you have to restart?

    • @[email protected]English
      1•4 days ago

      Yes, and it comes with very few by default as well

      No restart needed, pull down twice and the switcher is on the bottom right. Usually takes just a couple seconds to switch.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•4 days ago

        thats nice to hear. I thought you need to restart to change profiles.

        You’re on the 9a right? How is the battery under Graphene? I used to have the OG Pixel (codename sailfish) and try different roms on there, but the battery is just terrible.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•4 days ago

          I’m still feeling that part out since it’s only been about a week, a full charge can last me multiple days (5100mAh) and the battery in my pixel 5 (4080mAh) was pretty run down.

          Fully charged 25.5hr ago & pretty heavy use yesterday and I’m at 63%, the 5 would have been twice dead by now.