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The community is not stupid, it only takes one person to find out and tell everyone, and then the one doing it gets quickly ostracised.

The centralised (corporatocracy) version of "trust" that is prevalent today one of the biggest obstructions to freedom IMHO.

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This is what I like about LineageOS. I may not have the time or inclination to build it myself, but it's "open enough" to meet my standards, especially compared to the closed ROM supplied by my phone's manufacturer (OnePlus, FWIW).

I'm not implying they are, my question was honest. I once tried to see where the binary ROM actually came from, and met an astonishing lack of information. Granted, it's a model that isn't really supported.

But it felt that the community is far away from having plausible sources and builds.

I can understand that ultimately this begins with kernel sources that are already just a ZIP archive on some website.

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