The turd is in google play services not AOSP so its not upstream of Lineage or Graphene. Graphene should actually be safe because it provides an alternative to google play services. Lineage doesn’t but the user isn’t required to install google play services. Lineage users might even be able to install Graphene’s alternative (MicroG iirc) instead.

Not if you self-host.

BUDDY - A Tamagotchi Inside Your Terminal

I am not making this up.

Claude Code has a full Tamagotchi-style companion pet system called “Buddy.” A deterministic gacha system with species rarity, shiny variants, procedurally generated stats, and a soul description written by Claude on first hatch like OpenClaw.

The entire thing lives in buddy/ and is gated behind the BUDDY compile-time feature flag. The Gacha System

Your buddy’s species is determined by a Mulberry32 PRNG, a fast 32-bit pseudo-random number generator seeded from your userId hash with the salt

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