Why is this a big deal? It’s their call whether to support bootloader unlocked devices on official software. If they’re not preventing unlocking this article isn’t saying anything newsworthy.
In order to get an Android-only app working on a desktop computer I installed Weston and Waydroid which worked, but as I (and the target machine) run Mint 21 it's not as simple as just running Waydroid and having it work, plus there is no way to close out Waydroid from within itself. In order to make it easier to start and stop I made this little script, run it once to start and again to stop. Edit as needed obviously but this should work as-is.
*Edit: the `&` is not correct, lemmy is doing that, edit it to remove the amp; parts*
```
#!/bin/bash
PID=$(pgrep "weston")
if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
waydroid session stop
kill $PID
exit
fi
weston --width=1920 --height=1080 --socket=wayland-1 &>/dev/null &
sleep 5
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland waydroid show-full-ui
```
It’s like they’re just grabbing from other articles and cramming together or adding content to old news
That’s exactly what they’re doing. And it gets worse, it’s often automated. And they don’t disclose that so nobody knows they shouldn’t trust the information.
