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<img src="/doer/Under-Construction-Bulldozer.gif" alt="under construction">
I'm the ashamed owner of a $40 smart phone, the LG Spree for Cricket.
TODO phone selfie
It's way more powerful than my laptop--more ram, more CPU, better wireless connectivity... Perhaps a higher resolution screen, certainly it can produce higher quality audio.
TODO stats
But, the poor little device has been brainwashed. It doesn't answer to me. (And it never will, not in its [heart-of-hearts](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot12/woot12-final24.pdf)...)
But, I can at least get it to stop running casual games in the background, even after a fresh reboot! There's a setting for that. I might be able to change that setting just by rooting the device, but why not fully replace the OS?
[Cyanogenmod](https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/About) is an alternative Android distribution. Although early versions were crudely[1] modified ROM images of official firmwares, the Cyanogenmod community has grown to the point where they track [AOSP](https://source.android.com/) and port each new release to LOTs of devices themselves!
TODO talk about http://opengapps.org/#aboutsection
TODO use proper ikiwiki footnotes with return link
1: Crude just means quick-n-dirty. Props to those trailblazers! I miss the days of random suid editable scripts laying around on the filesystem... :)
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