795
Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration (hackaday.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
257 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Also no GPU driver, because even if the manufacturer does actually provide it, some nerd within the community will block it for not being "free software" enough and that "for light 2D applications, CPU blitter is more than enough".

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    On a mobile device? It's more likely that only OSS drivers work and the binary blob driver only worked with a pre-Pandemic aged kernel. Or it needed a very specific userspace library that doesn't work with a minimal libc.

    "Free software enough" usually means "has a snowball's chance of actually working".

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent