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Re:Mozilla WebThings by littlestymaar on Friday April 19, 2019 @06:11AM (#19698281)
You can install a plain AOSP and have (almost[1]) full control over your phone though.

[1] almost, because every smartphone needs proprietary drivers to run …

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Re:Mozilla WebThings by dmos62 on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:57AM (#19698782)
> every smartphone needs proprietary drivers

Free phones are slowly popping up https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

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Re:Mozilla WebThings by littlestymaar on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:09AM (#19699265)
The librem looks nice but if I'm not misunderstanding, it's still pretty much vaporware at this point. I sincerely hope it reaches its goals though.
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Re:Mozilla WebThings by mort96 on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:52PM (#19702003)
No, you can't. Not when more and more phones ship with locked bootloaders and a smaller and smaller percentage of phones actually work well with some AOSP spin and none of the apps you use work without an unrooted, closed-source-Google-API-infested phone.
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Re:Mozilla WebThings by pjmlp on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:32PM (#19700852)
Next version of AOSP will have a smaller userspace.
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