the thing about pixels is that putting lineage/graphene/whatever on them basically turns it into a completely different phone, all the complaints about AI and whatnot largely dissapear and they become what i’d call about the best experience you can have on a smartphone. Easy to install lineage (dunno about others, presume it’s equally easy), just works, no bullshit.
from what i’ve seen it seems like the pixel line just has a curse placed upon it, where every model has 1% of phones suffer from fairly major hardware problems and the other 99% are perfectly fine.
the #1 reason it’s what i’ve been using is just that they don’t have any locked down nonsense compared to other brands, unlocking the bootloader and flashing another OS is absolutely trivial and stuff just works.
you can get around a lot of detection with stuff like microg/kernelsu and other layers of arcane bullshit technomagic
it’s not like physical media these days has any reason to be actual discs, just use SD cards or USB drives…
but like, they could just fork those clients and add those features
Helix is tainted: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/15433/commits
even then you’d have to somehow avoid basically anything even remotely processed, and stuff like pickles and many many seasoning mixes… You’d really only ever get too little salt if you have some specific health condition where you need extra salt, and you’ll probably notice such because you’ll go “hm i want more salt”.
If you want me to go on arguing, you’ll have to pay for another five minutes.
i don’t think most people do, tbh. Pretty sure i see people who self-identify as either of them call themselves the other, not even realizing they said a different word.
To prevent it getting lost i want to point this out in its own top-level comment:
Keep in mind that as the copyright holder you can publish your code under as many licenses as you wish, and charge for whichever licenses you wish.
You could publish it for free under AGPL, charge a smaller sum for developers who want/need a more permissive license like BSD 3-clause, and charge out the ass for a full on proprietary license.
Do note though that you’d have to think about how to handle contributions, as that will be copyright of the respective authors and thus you can’t just merrily go and change the license of their contributions. You’d have to ask them to sign a Contributor License Agreement or just straight up manage the codebases separately (which is a little bit of a mess).
don’t forget that the copyright holder is perfectly free to sell copies of their software under different licenses, OP could provide the GPL copy for free and clearly advertise that buying it under MIT or a non-open license is available.
do mind that (and i’m pretty sure this still works with AGPL but this isn’t gospel) you can have the engine be open source while keeping the assets proprietary and requiring they be purchased to actually sensibly play the game.
This is how the original DOOM works, there’s an ocean of modified doom engines but you still have to buy the assets to play the proper actual DOOM game. You can use alternative asset packs but it’ll look and sound like a fairly different game.
And of course it’s vastly easier to create alternative assets for such a simple game, compared to the labour that would be involved in a larger modern game.
except lineageos still supports the original pixel, which is 10 years old.
exactly. I’ve had a pixel 6 for a couple years now and there just isn’t any significant reason to get a new phone, everything runs smoothly and new phones don’t have any particularly useful improvements beyond, like, screen brightness and refresh rate (and even then 60hz is fucking fine)…
unlock the bootloader, install lineage with microg, install kernelSU; bam basically the best smartphone experience you can have until the market gets regulated and stops being ass.
well what are your criteria? Asking for advice without saying what you need isn’t tremendously useful and, as has happened, mostly just results in people recommending whatever they personally use for whatever reasons.
delta absolutely needs an account though, it’s literally email
you can always just host your own fdroid repo, there’s nothing magical about it and it’s trivial for users to add it to their client.
Here’s the install guide, basically identical for all pixels afaik: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/shiba/install/
It’s come a long way from the cyanogenmod days.