• jemorgan@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If you’re sticking an old device into a closet stuck to a charger, a phone is like the worst thing for that. Heck, even an old laptop running Linux would probably allow you to charge it, have an external HDD, and Ethernet at the same time, which already puts it miles ahead of a phone.

    Android is open source, so if you really want to do this with an old device, you can build yourself a custom rom and do so. But there is no way that it’s a good play for Google to spend engineering time and resources to build something that is at best a poor replacement for countless existing solutions.

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      1 year ago

      I think a root app that runs on Android 4 would work but the devs would have to implement modern standards (TLS 1.2) themselves, the performance would be bad and the phone will probably have known security vulnerabilities.