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5 years of security updates, not necessarily full OS updates.

Full OS updates seem to matter less and less these days. I remember upgrading to Android 12, whose flagship feature was - a new theming system. And some rearrangement of the UI. Not really worth the downtime.

Maybe I'm just getting older. I'd rather have year over year consistency over what some committee of designers thinks is more "modern".

God forbid Google let the free software world actual make free software builds for the android reference developer hardware.

Bastards.

Unless you're being sarcastic, Google absolutely lets the free software world make free software builds for the android reference developer hardware and they have been doing this continuously & consistently since the ancient Nexus days.

Pixel 7 & 7 Pro aren't listed yet, but it's hard to imagine they aren't going to show up here: https://source.android.com/docs/setup/build/running

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