We took for granted that at least our tech bubble would understand what the Google Decree means for Android, #FLOSS and freedom.
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We took for granted that at least our tech bubble would understand what the Google Decree means for Android, #FLOSS and freedom. Unfortunately we never saw the uproar we were expecting and people just shrugged it off taking for granted that "nothing changes".
@marcprux great #FDroid post brought the issue into the light, waking up developers, users, media and (we hope) concerned authorities to the immense danger the newly proposed gatekeeping controls Google wants to add.
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We took for granted that at least our tech bubble would understand what the Google Decree means for Android, #FLOSS and freedom. Unfortunately we never saw the uproar we were expecting and people just shrugged it off taking for granted that "nothing changes".
@marcprux great #FDroid post brought the issue into the light, waking up developers, users, media and (we hope) concerned authorities to the immense danger the newly proposed gatekeeping controls Google wants to add.
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F-Droid contributors have already translated the English post into Bahasa Indonesian, Português do Brasil, Українська and 繁體中文. If you wanted to distribute the link and language was a barrier, maybe now you can do it in your native one. Feel free to help with translations if your locale does not have one yet: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/
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F-Droid contributors have already translated the English post into Bahasa Indonesian, Português do Brasil, Українська and 繁體中文. If you wanted to distribute the link and language was a barrier, maybe now you can do it in your native one. Feel free to help with translations if your locale does not have one yet: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/
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The post was also discussed twice by #AndroidFaithful (thanks @MishaalRahman and Florence Ion) in https://www.androidfaithful.com/episode/hold-me-thrill-me-xiaomi-android-faithful-episode-116/ at 01:21:16 and https://www.androidfaithful.com/episode/theyre-coming-for-our-charging-cables-android-faithful-episode-118/ at 44:10
And by #TWIT (thanks Steve Gibson and @leo) in https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/1046 starting at 02:04:35
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We took for granted that at least our tech bubble would understand what the Google Decree means for Android, #FLOSS and freedom. Unfortunately we never saw the uproar we were expecting and people just shrugged it off taking for granted that "nothing changes".
@marcprux great #FDroid post brought the issue into the light, waking up developers, users, media and (we hope) concerned authorities to the immense danger the newly proposed gatekeeping controls Google wants to add.
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@fdroidorg which post are you talking about?
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@fdroidorg which post are you talking about?
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F-Droid contributors have already translated the English post into Bahasa Indonesian, Português do Brasil, Українська and 繁體中文. If you wanted to distribute the link and language was a barrier, maybe now you can do it in your native one. Feel free to help with translations if your locale does not have one yet: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/
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@fdroidorg it seems the link to the translate project is for f-droid, not the post
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@fdroidorg it seems the link to the translate project is for f-droid, not the post
@fdroidorg could you link to an English translation?
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@fdroidorg could you link to an English translation?
@samuel It's not that easy, in https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/website-posts/ select your language, then Search for "location:=_posts/2025-09-29-google-developer-registration-decree.md" (without quotes). Then you can translate 😉
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@Sobex There's one other big downside: power management really isn't very good on most of the modules *yet*. I think some of the older modules have suspend, but hibernate is kinda working on the RK3588, no suspend yet. I do think this is a big barrier to adoption for many people.
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@pa portal to Hell next to the sewers
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@Sobex Usually arm64/aarch64, but there are some other modules, including a (soon to be revived) FPGA module (that one's just for some very particular developers), and there were some demos of a RISC-V module. But it's generally ARM64.
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@cwebber What ISA is it o.O ?
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@Sobex The downsides for MNT, if you're looking for a drop-in replacement:
- There's no current x86 offering, if that's important to you
- You *will* have to hack it at some point probably, but it's highly hackable!
- The MNT Reform Next isn't out yet, so either you have this incredibly cute pocket computer, or you have the chonker "brutalist" (but highly hackable) original MNT Reform
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@aeva the cat did this to me last night. Managed to knock over a package I thought was secure enough... made a loud noise. Thankfully he didn't get hurt!
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Oh, but of course, when Fedify 2.0 comes out, I'll probably have to rewrite all the tutorials?
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@Sobex It's not necessarily, I have been advocating MNT's stuff for a long time.
But let me say that I think that if you *are* disappointed with Framework's actions then consider that MNT is:
- An indie, queer open hardware shop based out of Berlin
- All of their stuff really is as open hardware as they can make it
- The community is just lovely
