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  • @Linkerbaan
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    5711 months ago

    I tried to install an old version of San Andreas recently on my phone cause the last update broke controller support (which I actually bought with money).

    Apparently we don’t own our Android OBB directories anymore because of “safety”.

    So far the “we Android users already have this”…

    • @[email protected]
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      5211 months ago

      Yep, it’s unfortunate that manufacturers are taking more and more control away from users. That’s why open-source software like Linux is so important, you can do anything you want to with it.

      • @[email protected]
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        1711 months ago

        Yeah Android is Linux. But Manufactures are limiting it so hard that it is sometimes nearly impossible to get a custom ROM on the phone.

        • @w2tpmf
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          11 months ago

          Yes. The openess of the operating system is meaningless if the phone’s firmware isn’t open.

          • @giggling_engine
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            811 months ago

            It’s open source so that anyone can manufacture a phone for it (good for business), not so you could install whatever you want on the hardware (bad for business)…

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          Yeah but unfortunately with Android it’s what Google wants and not what the end-user wants. That’s why Linux itself is very important, the user gets to decide what they want to do with it.