ReimarPB

I own a Motorola Moto G31 and I am interested in building Android and running it on the device. On Google's guide to building Android there's a note about requiring some proprietary binaries to make it work on real hardware, which is further explained on this page.

While Google seems to freely distribute the proprietary binaries for their Pixel and Nexus devices, I'd like to ask if Motorola does the same? Is it possible for me to obtain the required files to build and run AOSP on my phone? I have looked around the [Motorola developer pag

Whenever someone talks about Ungoogled Android, they are usually referring to a custom ROM such as LineageOS or GrapheneOS, which are built on top of the Android Open Source Project. The problem with these is that they only support a limited number of devices.

Is there anything that would stop me from just building and installing AOSP myself and using that as a daily driver? What exactly do the ROMs provide that AOSP doesn't?

It can be difficult to find the proprietary binaries to get the hardware fully working on AOSP (which I assume is why the ROMs support very few devices), however Android has also released Generic System Images which solves this issue. Is this also a viable method to i

I'm running openSUSE Leap 15.4 on a laptop with an integrated GPU (AMD Ryzen 5 with Radeon Vega 8 graphics) and a dedicated GPU (Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050), the latter of which I can't get to work.

I installed openSUSE yesterday and followed the official guide on installing Nvidia drivers. Specifically, I installed them using zypper. Below is the output of zypper se --installed-only nvidia:

S  | Name                      | Summary                                                               | Type
---+---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
i  | kernel-firmware-nv

I'm going through Magisk's installation instructions and it tells me when I should enable the "Patch vbmeta in boot image" option.

However, I cannot find anywhere where the "Preserve AVB 2.0/dm-verity" option is mentioned. What does it do, and in which case should I have it enabled?

I've found that making one error while typing usually leads to more errors for me - and that is because after pressing backspace, I will have to relocate my right hand so that it is on the home row again. Searching for the J key takes too much time when I'm using e.g. typeracer, and just going with what feels right to me is very error prone. How do you guys handle it?

Or rather, what are the pros and cons of each?

Do you prefer having same-finger bigrams go upwards on the keyboard (like LO in the word "low") or downwards (like ED in the word "ted")?

I personally prefer downwards by far, but I wanted to hear y'all's opinion on this