I've started donating to PostmarketOS this month, so hopefully I'll be able to buy a device with decent support once my current phone needs replacing.
I already run LineageOS on my phone with microG instead of Gapps, so not much is going to change for me. There'll also be an update to Android 16 for me soon, LineageOS just announced that last weekend.
Not every game can be a Terraria
That site can't deal with the GDPR apparently
Even the maize chips?
Maybe, but I'm much more comfortable with it failing as early as possible
Anything by Powerwolf really
They also did this the previous time Chat Control failed to meet the approval threshold.
Ideally they'd send the packages back to the origin instead of throwing them in the trash.
You can tell the difference because real PNGs have a uniform background in the preview while fake PNGs have the tiles.
It didn't pass because people pressured Germany to reject it. If Germany had stayed undecided they would definitely have had a vote on Chat Control and potentially passed it.
Biggest issue is that Qualcomm, Mediatek and anx others don't use mainline kernels. They all have their ancient forks with garbage code stapled on to run Android. That means you're either using that ancient code through a translation layer (Halium + libhybris, used in UB Touch, Droidian) or try and write drivers that can be merged upstream (postmarketOS).
RISC-V doesn't have any CPUs with similar performance to ARM, still work in progress and not guarantee the manufacturers will care any more about mainline Linux.
That's normal