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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is great if all you want is a dumb phone. Or you're perfectly ok without all the things that make your phone smart. Check the balance on your banking app? Nope. Venmo a buddy because your buddy is spotting you? Nope. Chat with your friends or family where they are, not forcing them to use another app they don't want? Nope.

I think everyone should be picky with what they are comfortable using on their smart phones.

Unless you're some kind of tin foil hat person or have a specific phone use case or a criminal or terrorist, there isn't many reasons to root your phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There are two kinds of people: criminals and really fucking stoopid, hypocrite, ignorant, criminals… Be the former. Only war is the class war. 🏴🏴🏴✊🏿

[–] [email protected] 220 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

>reboot to bootloader -> unlock -> you will use your warranty -> yes

It's fucking outrageous that companies are allowed to blatantly lie like that (you will not, in fact, lose your warranty -- Federal law doesn't allow it). Every company that displays such a fraudulent message ought to be fined by the FTC, or worse.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (6 children)

ought to be fined by the FTC, or worse

Fines don't work, just start throwing people in jail already.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At this point, I find a rom I like then shop for a new phone in the supported section

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Bought my Pixel just for GrapheneOS. It is not perfect, but better than all the Samsung etc. shit. And for the next couple years I am not forced to upgrade due to missing security updates, so there's that.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago

Don't forget the part where the preinstalled OS forces you to accept the Google ToS. You just spent a few hundred bucks on a new phone and then it won't let you use it without also selling your soul.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am concerned to find myself in a green text unironically

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (11 children)

All that trouble yet you still install whatsapp. Make them text you by sms

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

SMS is arguably worse than WhatsApp, at least in terms of overall security

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (10 children)

My banking app won't work if I'm rooted and before that when I had developer mode on it wouldn't work. Just gave me a error so I have the login to Firefox each time. I hate apps that block you because they can't track you anymore

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Banks that do this are just ignorant and hypocritical. Those same banks will let you log in from a web browser on the phone that is just as (un)likely to be compromised or from a desktop computer where you also have admin rights.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (38 children)

GrapheneOS. Easy, quick, reliable.

Yeah you have to buy a phone by Google but I don't mind giving them money to reward them for making a decent phone with an easily unlockable bootloader that lets you do what you want with it, even if it means denying them your data. This is extremely atypical from a company like Google so I want to encourage that kind of behavior.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And that's after you swim through a hundred forum posts to figure out how the fuck to do it and why the fuck it isn't working.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

helps if you specifically get a phone model that isn't absolute bullshit, pixels generally don't actively fight you, which is extremely ironic since they're google's flagship.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

This, except install LineageOS and don't bother with removing google/Samsung stuff. And skip whatsapp as my older contacts email me and younger ones have moved to Signal

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago
  • There was a problem initializing your phone, contact customer service.
  • Customer service flash restores everything back to the way it was in the box.
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Find out too late that this exact sequence of events identifies you as Hamas to Mossad and your phone explodes.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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