Post #2428607

2025-12-12 13:44 UTC

@larma@mastodon.social @dantescanline@autonomous.zone though I'm not sure how is this still relevant. I'm just an unfortunate user of unsupported device like people with Nvidia Pascal GPUs. Many modern phones receive OS updates up to 7 years. This it 7 years of the most latest OS version after which there is still a lot of time before things stop working.

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@dantescanline@autonomous.zone 2025-12-12 13:51

@rangelovd@mastodon.ml @larma@mastodon.social i think you've misunderstood what's being discussed here then? degoogled open source forks of android (murena etc) completely rely on google releasing each android versions source code, if google cut them off then all users of those open source forks would decay similar to your own unsupported device. apps that target newer APIs will not be able to run without herculean effort from a small open source community.

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@larma@mastodon.social 2025-12-12 13:51

@rangelovd@mastodon.ml @dantescanline@autonomous.zone We were talking about AOSP stopping to receive updates, not the proprietary Android version devices run officially. If the device offers 7 years of updates, sure, it will receive 7 years of *proprietary* updates. But I'm not aware of any device coming with 7 years of AOSP updates. Because device manufacturers offer those 7 years based on a contract they have with Google for their proprietary Android. And that doesn't cover AOSP.

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