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		mcsniff on Sept 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years o... There are numerous open source builds of AOSP forks for the Nexus 5, including LineageOS. Yeah, you're not gonna get baseband / blob / firmware updates or security patches outside of platform, but the damn thing is 8 years old.

fuzzy2 on Sept 7, 2021 [–]

The Nexus 5 issue was just an example. Even phone makers are totally dependent on Qualcomm etc. providing drivers and maybe updates to those drivers.

It's not like you can just hack updates together yourself. Not always anyway.

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