Hillsboro (Texas)
Hillsboro is a city in the Blackland Prairie of Texas.
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Hillsboro is located along the point of Interstate 35 where it splits into Interstate 35E (going to Dallas in the northeast) and 35W (going to Fort Worth in the northwest).
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| Routes through Hillsboro |
Splits into   |
N  |
→ Waco → Austin |
| Dallas ← Waxahachie ← | N |
→ Merges onto |
| Oklahoma City ← Fort Worth ← | N |
→ Merges onto |
gollark: If you do remove it, half your apps will break, because guess what, they depend on Google Play Services for some arbitrary feature.
gollark: It's also a several hundred megabyte blob with, if I remember right, *every permission*, running constantly with network access (for push notifications). You can't remove it without reflashing/root access, because it's part of the system image on most devices.
gollark: It is also worse than *that*. The core bits of Android, i.e. Linux, the basic Android frameworks, and a few built-in apps are open source. However, over time Google has moved increasing amounts of functionality into "Google Play Services". Unsurprisingly, this is *not* open source.
gollark: Which also often contain security changes and won't make their way to lots of devices... ever! Fun!
gollark: This is at least slightly better than the situation if you use your manufacturer's official OS images, since you can at least get new *Android* changes without updating the kernel.
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