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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by xxpor on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @09:51PM (#28150686)
This is probably because I'm running a Samsung os, but I get auto updates from the Samsung store.
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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by altantiprocrast on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:03AM (#28151747)
The vendor has custom modules for auto-updating. afaik F-Droid also auto-updates on freer distributions of Android but not on most manufacturer ones.
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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by sureglymop on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:59AM (#28152943)
Exactly. This is because F-Droid requires root access to provide this functionality. I'm not sure if the module for this is still up to date, but it is a Magisk module that could be installed on any Android device rooted with Magisk.
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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by m4rtink on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:58PM (#28151213)
Well I actually also have a Note 9 and it seems Samsung stuff generally does not get updated by itself & either stays outdated or nags for update I need to manually trigger.
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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by heavyset_go on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:55PM (#28160713)
Stores that are baked into vendor images are granted special privileges to act as app stores.
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