Why aren't Android Custom ROMs a thing anymore?

>>105940499 (OP)
They are, retard. But Jeetdroid devices with unlocked bootloaders and kernel source code are becoming rarer.

>>105940499 (OP)
They are. But even the official(tm) Google Pixels don't have open-source kernels or device trees anymore.

in america the cell phone distibutors lock the bootloader and refuse to give you the keys this should be a criminal act let me unlock the bootloader verizon you gay cuck

>>105940499 (OP)
greed, surveillance, cattle, rape on GPL, jews.

>>105940499 (OP)
>stock ROMs on most devices are good enough
>industry pushing anti user measures and a growing list of permalocked phones, or even pulling the rug behind the modders by shutting down the unlock services
>cuckgle releasing safetynet, later mutated into talmud integrity, making custom ROM users second hand citizens
>no one EVER making ARM an x86-like open standards platform with universal images because it would hurt their profits

>>105940499 (OP)
It's too locked down to do anything interesting now.

Is a phone without gps possible?

>>105942212
Legally? No. Technically? Yeah just get a Linux SBC and a Quectel EG25 modem stick. You can make calls over VOIP or you can bang your head against the USB AC mode with the AT+CLAC command.

>>105942246
The fuck do you mean legallly? did the old nokka 3210s have gps?

>>105942409
This might come as a surprise, but laws change over time

most of the phones out there can't have their bootloaders unlocked

Stock Android caught up with some functionalities offered exclusively by custom ROMs.

>>105940499 (OP)
how do you even unlock a phone to be able to change its ROM?

(there is a fucking fly in my monitor. wtf?)

>>105940499 (OP)
have to compete with mobile linux now

>>105940499 (OP)
Because Google will cuck you from using all the apps that use any sort of payment process due to (((security))).

>>105940499 (OP)
Everything is locked down and Jeetdroid isn't nearly as bad as it was

Because even /g/ loves to promote government spyware now, they fully embrace the phone being the. DRM on life in western society like the cucks they are.

dumb frognigger
>>>/g/sqt