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Google may be planning to ship a major kernel upgrade to all its (Tensor-powered) pixel phones.(androiddev.social)

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Good news for android overall. Hopefully, this could be extended to other OEMs by 2025 and not be optional like virtual A&Bs when it arrives.

(Meanwhile, my current smartphone running 4.19… )

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What does this mean for most users? What features does this allow/improve that they couldn’t implement before?

Do we know why they are doing this if it’s so unusual?

Edit: and is this an Android change or a Google change? Is a particular android version picky about what Linux version it’s built on?

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This only affects modern Pixels, and probably won’t directly impact anything in a way that you as a user will notice. I assume there will be efficiency improvements that may have tiny bumps for performance/battery but probably imperceivable.

I think Google is doing this for security. Now that Pixels are going to be supposed for 7+ years it will be easier to maintain them and keep up with security patches if they are on a more recent kernel version.

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TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id
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You may be able to mount your NTFS formatted Pen drive via OTG w/o Third party apps.

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shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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wow i hope that’s not all, that’s a pretty lame update. I can’t think of even one use-case that that would be helpful for.

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