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by Animats 2 days ago
> "You don’t need a Google account to operate the device."

Now that's progress.

2 comments

But you need a Meta account??
It's typical of de-Googled devices, which includes some tablets which ship without Google Play Services (the adtech tracking infrastructure) activated, as well as Android-derived OSes (GrapheneOS, LineageOS, /e/OS, iodeOS) and AOSP variants (KaiOS). There's Linux and Android bits in there (fairly complete for the first list, less so for AOSP/KaiOS), but at least by default no Google requirements or spyware.