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>8-year-old bug reports to which someone submitted a damn patch to fix the bug two years ago, yet they're still sitting open with the last "me too" comment three weeks ago and a bunch of folks begging Google to apply the patch.

This isn't only something developers dealt with, there were user facing bugs like this.

I'm so glad we're finally getting real Linux phones because Android was awfull.

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I liked the ones that had been auto-closed then manually re-opened like 5 times because it'd survived that many major versions. Entirely not kidding about more than once seeing that someone had pasted a patch file for like a 1-2 line fix in the bug thread and been begging Google to look at it for years.

[EDIT] To Google's credit, it was possible to write a patch for their OS, unlike iOS. Working against them is the fact that they don't seem to give a damn, so it hardly matters.

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