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Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

I seem to recall there's a way to see all the build (./configure) options of an already built CLI binaries. For example, if I install a pre-compiled wget binary from someone else, I could do a ...