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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by ethbr0 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:12PM (#30076519)
Custom ROMs are the Pareto principle in practice. Yes, you can relatively easily modify & build out 80% working functionality. As for the final 20%...
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by Semaphor on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:14PM (#30081611)
Huh? You get more features on custom ROMs, not less. Only very new ROMs or those newly switching to a new major Android version have missing features.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by ethbr0 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:39AM (#30086779)
You've never run a ROM with a major bug or missing feature?
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by Semaphor on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:57AM (#30088038)
Only when using unstable ones or those with edgy names ;)
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