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  If I supported capital punishment, I'd be in favor of firing squads over lethal injection. It's more honest. Shooting someone is clearly meant to kill while lethal injection dresses it up like a medical procedure. I oppose capital punishment though. The criminal justice system is not reliable enough to only punish those truly guilty of the worst crimes, it doesn't seem to be a more effective deterrent than imprisonment, and it usually ends up costing more than imprisonment for an of...

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  `adb sideload` is for installing an OS or OS update. The command to install an app is `adb install`.

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  They won't affect Android builds that aren't Google-certified directly. They'll affect F-Droid in that most people won't be able to install most apps from F-Droid without an obnoxious process and a waiting period. That will affect what people spend their time building and will likely result in fewer open source apps being created and maintained.

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  Yes, it's possible. Some things might be challenging, like keeping the system up to date without the user having access to an app repository, but it's *possible* e.g. by running a script as a cron job. Whether it's a good idea is harder to say. Linux distributions for phones are not especially mature and polished compared to desktop Linux. You might get better advice if you explain why you want to do this and who the intended user is.

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  A well-run community will either be explicit about its age/karma requirement, or it will manually approve filtered posts from low-reputation accounts. I moderate /r/flashlight and we use the latter approach. That takes work though. Some moderators are lazy, and some communities are understaffed. That's not *good*, but it most cases it's not malicious. It has fairly little to do with Reddit the company making money from advertisers.