• Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Degoogled as in “no code from google present” would require Ubuntu touch etc., but as in “no closed source stuff and no telemetry” is quite easy, using either Degoogled Android or another specific distro.

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      3 months ago

      Degoogled as in “no code from google present” would require Ubuntu touch etc.

      I know what I said :3

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        3 months ago

        Does that mean no code written in google employees, or not using code written by google employees on company time, paid by the company? Because both are basically impossible.

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          Code produced within google’s umbrella to the benefit of google; I don’t care what devs do in their free time.

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            3 months ago

            To the benefit of google

            As their contributions to the android kernel are also partly used in the main branch, you surely manually remove every commit of the kernel before building it manually, or do you use windows or mac?

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              3 months ago

              I’m an OpenBSD user, I don’t think there’s any/much Google code there. Here’s some kernel contributions for Linux 5.10: