Quack Doc

pretty much

sure thats portable, but you would need a lot of devices for that

this would be… somewhat possible, you can’t really boot GSI images, however the folk at BlissOS do have an android generic project that makes porting custom roms to x86 a lot easier. By porting android images to generic x86, we can serve them as temporary VMs, just like https://distrosea.com/ (I’ve actually been thinking about doing something like this for bliss specifically but funding says no lol).

This is contingent on roms being ported to x86 though, off the top of my head there are images floating around for

• Bliss (Obviously)
• Lineage OS,
• Vanilla AOSP,

and specific verisons of

• Project sakura (A11 iirc)
• CarbonROM A10
• Bootleggers A10
• RessurectionRemix
• Pixel Experience
• Dirty Unicorns
• Tesla

I believe there are also images of LMODroid and Calyx floating around… somewhere

it should have pretty good support but you may need to use this script to spoof the device for some stuff https://github.com/Quackdoc/waydroid-scripts/blob/main/spoof-device.sh

its easy to test BlissOS is open source and can be installed on any relatively modern PC or in a VM, coms with foss and gapps variants, install foss

this really isn’t true at all. android works great on 2Gb of ram, you don’t really hit issues until you load gapps. If you don’t it works great. I actually run BlissOS on my old Asus t100ta and Im not the only one.

When you do nothing something like xfce works great, but when you actually start doing things like browsing the web, watching youtube etc then it starts to really become a slog. Meanwhile something like BlissOS is actually usable even when watching 1440p content (gpu not strong enough to test UHD)

libhoudini is optimized for Intel, NDK for AMD, but some apps may be incompatible with one or the other.

The charm of Unix systems used to be flexibility, buy Wayland seems to be an extinction-level event for traditional window management. Nothing fills the gap of FVWM or WindowMaker. But gosh, I can get 92 flavours of tiling compositor and windows that ripple when dragged.

I think this is “temporarily” true as we get more kits that make wayland development trivial I think it wont be so bad, right now wayland is still very immature, and will be for a long time.

don’t run sudo that breaks things

AOSP doesn’t have that much bloat, it’s far lighter then your typical linux distro, It’s vendors that bloat it up, Custom roms are extremely light, This is BlissOS running on 2Gb of ram https://files.catbox.moe/4n17z3.mp4.

It’s far more responsive then many linux distros would be since android and it’s applications are optimized around low ram and low system resource in general

this is not really quite true, we have always been able to run androidx86/BlissOS in qemu which works about “as well” but with less integration, IE no “native like” windows

most android apps are architecure agnostic “java, kotlin etc” and even apps that are often ship “Universal binaries” which include x86, or split builds for arm and x86

some android kernels are, but AOSP itself can run perfectly happy on a vanilla kernel, just make sure your kernel was compilled with BINDER enabled, which yes, is upstream

see reply to casey’s replly

we can if you load libhoudini or libndk, but both are proprietary so they arent included by default, casual snek’s waydroid-extras

I tried Waydroid and it worked very well. The app ran supersmooth as if it was running natively.

thats because it was running natively

It is true that Waydroid isn’t super secure. that being said, it is still just a mostly stock android (unless you download gapps). Root is not exposed to the container so unless an exploit is found it is reasonably secure. There are measures waydroid can take to make it more secure. but as it stands it’s “not bad”

There is an unofficial script that ads arm emulation. Note before anyone asks, it will not become officially supported by waydroid.

That’s actually horrid. My router is android only and I thought that was bad.

specific parts. you need metal to withstand the pressures of the actual bullet to get a somewhat degree of reliability, so any pressure bearing part needs to be metal, everything else can be plastic, but the more metal the better. Now you can get some more basic designs with parts that you could fabricate at home, but a lot of the higher end designs require off the shelf gun parts.

The “leading design” right now is the FGC-9 which is actually seeing a degree of use in myanmar(??). The design requires metal parts that could be feasible to fabricate at home. However it is shockingly easy, even in heavily restricted countries, to be able to order the metal parts.