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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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