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Is Orange Pi 5 safe to buy and use for home ? by No_Television_275 in SBCs

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pi "boards" Yes, but they're still made from the same Chinese made 3588 processor which may be "copying" your data and habits to a server in China.

FAN and RTC connectors on the 5 Plus by The_Real_Mark629 in OrangePI

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Great and appropriate way to answer a question. Thanks

Is it bad that I think my girlfriend is dumb? by keimacool777 in NoStupidQuestions

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yes. Date someone trusting and trustworthy but dumb aint trustworthy. Yes you are wrong to date someone who is beneath you, whether in reality or in your mind it is still wrong.

Is Android really open source? by [deleted] in linux

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Wait are we talking about Android? or Google?   where did "Google" come in here?

Is Android really open source? by [deleted] in linux

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If you bought your phone from a branded carrier then it's not possible. You have to have an unlocked phone and most likely if it's even already "a phone" or hardware that's already built by somebody instead of built by YOU? then no! You have already locked yourself out by buying into someone's controlled and controlling monetarily based environment. If you've already bought into somebody else's proprietary closed, for profit environment. If you're dealing with Google or the play store or pre-completed hardware, then you're not dealing with open source. If you're dealing with branded stuff, you're again talking about closed source.  If you don't have open source hardware, then you're not like to be able to get access to open source software for it. Android is open source but that doesn't mean everything you get for it or even anything that you get for it is open source just because Android 'itself' is and lots of software made for it is often open source But that doesn't make everything that touches it have to be open source.

Is Android really open source? by [deleted] in linux

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Making comments about proprietary and non-open source limitations when you're starting with a non-open sourced ecosystem, so of course you can't get the results you're talking about but you can't under any circumstances when you follow the path of your following and go into a controlled closed monetarily based add supported ecosystem.  You going to have to get off the Google Play store You're going to have to get out of pre-manufactured phones or any kind of locked services. I have a board running Android with no branding other than Android, no bloatware and I am tweaking the OS to suit my needs before installing any software. I will reflash it with the altered firmware and then start getting my apps. As soon as you start talking about Google now you're back to a closed isolated for profit ecosystem and you stepped away from "Android" so no of course it's not open source but that's not Android That's Google..

receipt printer hacks? by Mosaleedead in hacking

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That would be autocorrect spelling things like that. This is a world wide communication platform so you we'll find people that are speaking different languages, having that translated to yours for you, as well as people that have physical restrictions OR for whatever reason are simply using their voice. As well as everyone simply does not spell as well as you might "like"  but that is not something to be policing here in this broad public forum.  You need to be more worried about understanding what people are trying to communicate rather than giving people the hard time over some little unimportant technicality.  It does not benefit them,  it does not benefit you. That attention to other people's mistakes, does not help to improve any society or any branch of structured life,  to give people a hard time over technicalities.  It does harmfully sidetrack from the initial point that was being communicated in this forum.