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Last month, "Google unilaterally decreed that Android developers everywhere in the world are going to be required to register centrally with Google."

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html @fdroid

PC Mag: F-Droid Warns Google’s New Rules Could Kill Third-Party Android App Stores https://www.pcmag.com/news/f-droid-warns-googles-new-rules-could-kill-third-party-android-app-stores @PCMag #Google #Android

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[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If Google ends up winning, the only things I see possible are to fork AOSP completely and make lineage and graphene operating systems in their own right, instead of in name only, or go to Linux Mobile, and if none of that is possible, then go back to desktop and declare mobile to be dead.

[-] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 days ago

I am not carrying around my desktop computer.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Oh boy, my friend, do I have the perfect product for you. They make this thing called a laptop that takes the usefulness of a desktop and makes it so that it fits in your lap. Can you believe it?

[-] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Well, you convinced me. I'm going to get rid of my lightweight handheld computer that can also make phone calls so I can carry around a laptop that by default will not make a phone call.

LMAO

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

I don't know much about the Linux phone scene, but I'm taking a look at Ubuntu Touch again.

I think they offer a way of virtualizing it, so I might do that to try it out since I've never played with it before.

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