It's kinda funny. I used to run custom roms all Android phones came with a shit OS.

I stopped because Pixel AOSP phones were actually decent.

Now I guess i'll be buying phones based on which I can flash with custom roms again.

good luck finding a phone with custom ROM support, when there will be no phones with bootloader unlock available :(

The only malware I've had to clean off peoples devices has come from the Google Play Store.

OpenWork supports Linux where this does not

This doesn't support Linux where Open Code does.

Can someone like... boot Windows 98 on these on a system with no ram?!

Conceptually - yes, easily.

But to do it literally - I'm not a low-level motherboard EE, but I'd bet you're looking at 5 to 7 figures (US $) of engineering work, to get around all the ways in which that would violate assumptions baked into the designs of the CPU, support chips, firmwares, etc.

Make a fake ram which offers write through guarantee and returns bus no matter what address is referenced. You could possibly short circuit any "is ram there" test if it just says yes for whatever size and stride got configured.

The CPU literally initialises itself without DDR then initialises the DDR PHY, there must be a way of keeping the CPU in that "cache as RAM" mode.

Theoretically anything is possible with enough thought and work.

or an older version of puppy linux?

How much would that be costing them? Thats a lot of data to serve for no reason.

Microslop employees down voting - lol

United States remains the only place with real freedom of speech.

Other places have 'hate speech' laws that severely erode it. Genuine criticism or discussion of certain topics is forbidden.

We need to remove the play store from Android phones. People have been scammed there more than any other store.