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It's very, very different. It tried to forego everything Google, unlike Samsung (and other) that ship with duplicates of Google's apps.

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What's the point of enabling mitigations for stuff that's already fixed in hardware (i.e. nothing to mitigate in the first place)....

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Considering one of its features is AoT compilation (aka translation of jars to executables), not only will it speed up execution, but it will cut the...

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I've used XFS before and while it did the job nicely, when I messed up the partition table, I found out the hard way there are far fewer utilities out...

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No, I'm just looking at how successful Amazon was trying to maintain their own fork
I mean, even the SMS functionality is gutted from AOSP and...

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Two words for you: GraalVM ...

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I've scripted those, too, but my clear cache is a separate script.

Huh?

Clearing cache on each reboot kinda defeats the purpose...

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I missed a comma, I meant "this AOSP vs something that actually runs, status quo". Meaning we have the supposedly open source AOSP which is...

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It doesn't matter how small the packages are, pacman still doesn't clear its cache so your drive will fill up eventually. Probably one of the few annoyances...

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Yes, but initially it was just Android, not this AOSP vs something that actually runs status quo ...

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Not a problem, it cuts back on a lot of going back and forth.
Many successful initiatives are the brain child of a single person: bittorrent, git,...

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A project that started as open source, denying revenue to open source projects. The irony...
And while I can understand why Google wants a share...

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I highly doubt media files belong into VCS. I can see some icons, maybe some "ding!" WAV/MP3, but large media files are meant to be kept el...

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I opened this thinking "who cares about decoders, encoders is where it's at". But when a decoder can't push 24 or 30 fps, wow! Just wow!

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See? And you thought Intel was evil for keeping the core count low. They were only thinking of server downtimes :P

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There are keywords that trigger knee jerk reactions. Google is among the newer entries ...

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People or groups of people can "behave in ways subject to moral or ethical consideration". It's still nonsensical to generalize that to an entire...

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Just because Google's store is (way, way) bigger, doesn't make the stories any different....

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Sure, I picked the easy examples, but where do you draw the line?...

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A lot of open source code is written out of good will. Just sayin'.
Also, I've said this before, even the storekeeper in your neighborhood learns...