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Re:Blloc – minimalist smartphone by craftyguy on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:39PM (#16917625)
Consider using LineageOS instead. There's nothing 'minimalist' about the crap that Google 'requires'.
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Re:Blloc – minimalist smartphone by seabrookmx on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:54AM (#16918713)
How does using Lineage solve this problem?

It's the same OS, and 99% of people that install Lineage install the GApps otherwise the device is barely usable.

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Re:Blloc – minimalist smartphone by y4mi on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:52AM (#16919092)
well, if you're a die-hard idealist, you could always use microG [0]

if you're not, you can still use Gapps nano or pico. thats basically just the play store and the service api.

[0] https://microg.org [1] http://opengapps.org

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