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I imagine this will be disabled in the EU, but it's a concern nonetheless.

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

There were news recently that there won't be grapheneos for newer models.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 18 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

This isn't fully true. The GOS team said that it would be much more work since they couldn't use their automated tools to build the image, but not that it's going to be impossible.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115062657359884451

However, Google is definitely moving in the direction of locking everything down.

[–] cron@feddit.org 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have a definitive source for this? All I found was speculation.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS team has extra work cut out for them but nothing that they can't over come.

But this is the beginning of the end IMHO

Over next few years Sundar the creep will ensure they are ml viable

[–] lustrum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 6 points 10 hours ago

Android is open source but Google is starting to move certain things behind closed doors.

This year they decide to no long provide "device trees" for pixel phones... Ie GrapheneOS will need to recerwse engineer android for each pixel devices where before this was provided.

Extra work, hard work but it is doable.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 5 hours ago

No there wasn't.