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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)

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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] Westlyroots@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Waydroid, it's the wayland continuation of anbox. From what I've seen and used, it's very good. It's good enough for most mobile apps including gaming. Some linux phone manufacturers even make it a point to integrate waydroid by default to allow you to use android apps just fine

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Hell yeah, now I can waste my time on DuoLingo outside of the toilet!!