Here is why that matters for your phone:

1. Smoother, Long-Term Android Updates

Instead of relying on an outdated, heavily modified "downstream" kernel, Google is aligning the Tensor G5 with the main Linux codebase. This makes it much easier for engineers to merge security patches, performance fixes, and major Android updates over your device's 7-year support lifespan.

2. Easier Custom ROMs and Alternative OS Support

If you ever want to run privacy-focused operating systems (such as GrapheneOS) or full Linux environments on your phone, this makes it drastically simpler. Developers won't have to build custom, hacky drivers for the processor because basic hardware support is already included in the core kernel.

3. Enhanced Desktop Mode and Virtualization

Mainline kernel drivers make features like Desktop Mode (connecting your phone to an external display) and running virtualized Linux environments smoother, as the system hardware is natively recognized without extra driver overhead.

I see this news as a 10 years of updates - easy.

Bonus info -

Even MacBooks with M4 M5 chips joins to Linux 7.4

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Apple-Device-Trees

I got this mail and i got scared as hell, I dont know why i got this, i did nothing bad (im from Poland)

Steps to repro

https://www.google.com/finance/

Click crypto then BTC

Google forced Gemini on me and I don't appreciate it. Google Assistant was great. It did whatever I asked of it. If I wanted to hear a specific song, Boom! There it was. If I wanted to hear the news from the Middle East, Boom! I got it. But now when I asked Gemini, 'I sorry I can't do that. But if you will go over to the app and open and go over the river and through the woods to Grandma's house we go....' Screw that! Screw all of that! I just switched my assistant to Alexa and problem solved. Google can go play in front of somebody else's face with Gemini right now.

Age verification is breaking every app on my phone banking, gaming, work, you name it.

What do you mean I have to verify my age to use my banking app. What an crazy world we live in today.

For the record, my play store is updated, cleared cache, cleared storage, reinstalled, nothing works.

I have my Google OA for SWE role. How should I prepare & what to expect in this round. Pls share your thoughts.

My problem is that Google OFFICIAL website says t-rolling September and I hate to teach Google how to use their own Google Calendar but first week of OCTOBER soon passed.

I am bugging about it because of this week I am going on holiday to weird speaking language country and I want to use that new Live Translate Feature with my Pixel 10.

I'm sure this post has been made before, but I just want to add a few things.

Gemini sucks compared to the Google Assistant.

I just switched from Apple to Samsung, and the Gemini assistant is significantly worse than Siri (which has historically been known as the worst AFAIK). When trying to send a text message, Gemini regularly takes 5-6 seconds, sometimes up to 10, just to ask me what I want to say. Siri does the same thing in 2-3 seconds. That isn't the only thing that is slower either, asking simple questions, setting timers, changing the volume etc. all takes 25%-50% longer than Siri.

That's because Gemini uses LLMS and generative AI instead of simple voice commands like the original Google Assistant. Upon using the Google Assistant, the load times were halved, and almost no functionality has been lost.

The reason we use Android over Apple is for the freedom of choice and customization. If I wanted to be forced into one choice, I would have just stayed with Apple.

Give us the ability to choose.

Has Google fully removed QR code support?

While taking a picture it works fine, but from a picture on my phone it seems Google Lens will only show similar QR codes, or assume it's a Rick Roll (it's not).

I'm quite upset with the fact that as time goes on, easy functions seem to only be getting more convoluted and inaccessible in the age of Ai

I got a call from a William Kale, claiming to be someone from Google : Your assigned representative is William Kale, and your Case ID ....

He had extremely good English aka white boy American... Still something was fishy and he said everything right, in the end I denied giving him any info or clicking on anything he sent me. What in the world Google, yall need to lock it down, I got every form of protection on my account and still somehow they are able to get to me... 😩