https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/113914172433692339

Finally something technical!

https://news.1rj.ru/str/MishaalAndroidNews/2780

No new vendor for y'all Snapdragon 870, 778 people, I guess

(nvm, 870 is at kernel 4.19 on mainstream devices, so stuck with A15 unless something extraordinary happens)

Pros: this guy is mad about a really great result
Cons: this feature is fully online from that I've been told

Oh... https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113887419695660943

Not all oranges are custom ROM (plenty of innocent people with imported Chinese units running global stock), but all yellows are 😏

I want to address a common misconception.

Raws (DNGs at least) are never meant to be dull. No, I don't mean that they should be punchy, but they shouldn't look purged of color. Whenever that happens, it means the metadata provided by your cam stack is incorrect.
Yes, a raw will usually need you to try bringing highlights down or do something to contrast or exposure, but whenever it looks really bad, blame your OEM for incorrect metadata, basic sensor mode, lack of stacking, or worse: forced post processing. Proper raw looks just fine.

Better tldr:
PIA enforces device/OS discrimination using hands of app developers. This discrimination forces a device/OS vendor to either ship GMS and sabotage user capabilities (as what you're allowed to do with AOSP must match with Google's interest) or resign from support of apps an average person wants to use. To convince the app vendors to support you regardless, you need to be big enough, and to be big enough, you need very serious money, creating a barrier of entry to the market, consolidating it in result and causing a GMS contract to be mandatory for every sub-9-digit company that attempts to obtain market share between typical users.

That's how it needs to be phrased to lawmakers, "custom ROMs" make it sound like solely a matter of hobby among bored people