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Re:Tunneling Internet through WhatsApp to get around network... by jimmySixDOF on Friday November 11, 2022 @09:52PM (#33569499)
To be fair Android as in ASOP is truly FOSS but because all drivers are baked into the kernel for reasons better lost to the sands of time, Vendor/Carrier pairs can enforce what they like in their required custom builds. This is what Google's project Fushia was/is supposed to solve.
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Re:Tunneling Internet through WhatsApp to get around network... by phonedog on Saturday November 12, 2022 @04:17AM (#33571487)
Not since Project Treble they're not.

The more pressing issue is that bootloader unlocking isn't as ubiquitous as one might like.

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Re:Tunneling Internet through WhatsApp to get around network... by jimmySixDOF on Sunday November 13, 2022 @12:44AM (#33580429)
It could also be said that being able to re-lock after cooking your ROM is just as important and even more missing
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