• Zak
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    7 days ago

    I insist on having root on principle; if I don’t, the device isn’t really mine.

    In a practical sense though, ACCA is probably my biggest use case for it. I could work around most everything else.

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      3 hours ago

      I’m the same way, been using that for my P6 and P2 XL. I thought the P2 battery or usb-c was failing 4 years ago until I degoogled it with Lineage for MicroG. Zero problems charging it after that, and battery is still adequate. It disxharges faster now, but at 6 yo, one has to expect degradation.

      Adaway is the other must-have app for me as it blocks adware, spyware, malware at the OS level.

      I will unroot my phone or use a different encryoted phone when i travel overseas because rooted phones are insecure if the bad actor gets physical access.

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      7 days ago

      I agree with the idea of properly owning your device, but its pretty rare I need root access and it’s not all that hard for me to enable it if I truly needed it. Turns out graphene has an option built in to limit charging to 80% and I use slow chargers already so I actually don’t need it here either.

      There are pretty solid security reasons to keep it locked down. It’s an attack vector that allows easily superceding the otherwise highest permissions on your device.

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        7 days ago

        It makes my phone just as secure or insecure as my PC. I’m good with that.

        If I was at higher risk of being directly targeted for attacks, I’d probably rethink that.