Are we ready for Darth Android?
It is reality since the first ever Android version. Why would I buy a Linux computer where only someone else gets root? I have to hack it just to be able to do basic maintenanceâŚ
The other way 'round: most people would fuck up their phones in a minute with root. Still remember that guy in my office that always worked as root and then typed things like ârm -rf blabla *â (space instead of dot)âŚ
Now if you are able to inspect an application yourself you should be able to root your phone and do with it whatever you want. For most people the block of apps probably is better because their phones will be less likely to be hacked.
Google really lives up to its new standards, no more âdonât be evilâ.
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Ah
my life is dotted with syntax failures
That is something AI is claimed to fix.
I was planning to replace my Android with a later version but now I will hold off for a while.
If Google lives up tio its usual standards then it will block legal apps and allow the others.
One time I worked for a firm where the workers had to show a card to a reader to enter the building.
They down sized and blocked the cards of the no longer employed.
Of course, they f-ed up and the people who no longer had a job were allowed in and the rest of us were at the nearest pub.
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Thereâs no best solution for all. The big tech has some sense in telling users shouldnât own the phone OSes as theyâll always install sh* then blame others (apps) for security breaches. This maybe actually does more good than evil for 70+% of consumers, but the rest is f*up because the big tech doesnât provide adequate means of security inspection for the advanced users.
For the majority though the rage is about paying for awesome hardware capabilities of the mini computers in our pockets which you cannot use. Therefore my take is:
A) buy a reasonably priced smartphone (i.e. donât pay for hardware capability you wonât use) for the commercial apps you need
B) buy a phone which you can hack around for everything else or just walk away, accepting you canât have that smart mini computer for all the magic it could give you if only it wasnât locked down
Iâd like to have Xiaomi Ultra (15 or 17) for their awesome camera sensor, but I donât want to risk wasting money by not being able to unlock it. Their official stance is that they let people unlock it, but in practice itâs impossible. One need to wait in âcommunity wait timeâ queue to get their phone unlocked, where this queue is global and resets each day midnight accepting only a small number of users each day so to succeed youâre nanoseconds competing each (whatever tz it is) midnight to get at the beginning of the queue. Thatâs BS
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Do google phones still provide unlocking capability. In the early days of Android, I was rooting the phones and installing my own builds of android on them, but things have become âgood enoughâ that it is no longer worth the bother.
If I ever had time to look at it again, I think the best option would be somehow to own the phone and virtualize it so that you host various virtual phones in there and sandbox each app. Iâm sure there must be some degrees of sandboxing so far and I know Samsung had some kind of profile system (Knox).
In any case, the drivers for the hardware arenât open source AFAIK - and even if they were, the firmware blobs for various key chips certainly arenât.
So, all this rooting is proving exactly what?
Could never really understand why so many buy a phone for itâs camera. If one really wants to take good photos they should get a Nikon. But AFAIK, good quality cameras donât integrate with Meta.
The majority IMO are computer illiterate, not to mention in general illiterate these days, and complacent about their rights. They donât really give a sh*t as long as Metaâs Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram are on board. Sad that the biggest outcry of this century in the USA was when TikTok got banned.
Soundâs like youâre really strong, like a mule, or never leave your couch. For me every kg counts so dragging dangling pouch with camera stuff with me is out of the question.
Gone are the days when everyone looked like a paparazzi