What companies will you never give another dollar to?

What happened that put them on your blacklist?

  • jacktherippah
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    2 years ago

    I loathe Samsung. Their bootloader unlocking is bullshit. Never getting another dollar from me ever again.

    • paf0
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      2 years ago

      Yup. Samsung sold smartwatches that promised an upcoming ECG feature to have it only available when connected to a Samsung phone when it came out, but not other Android phones. They also try and force you to put their TVs on your network so they can track everything you do. Never again.

      • JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        You’re not missing out on much. I stopped using the ecg feature on the Samsung watches when it gave me an AFib warning and I went to a doctor about it. They hooked me up to an EKG and said I was fine and looked at the chart my watch generated and said the chart there also looked fine. I put on both my apple watch and galaxy watch and was measuring both at the same time and the apple watch gave out either high heart rate (I just got back from a walk) or inconclusive meanwhile the galaxy watch fired off another false AFib warning.

    • TauriWarrior
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      2 years ago

      ? I unlocked bootloader easily, just enabled it in settings on my note 20 ultra

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        2 years ago

        You’ve just tripped Knox and permanently lost multiple features

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          2 years ago

          If I remember correctly just “unlocking” doesn’t trip Knox. However installing custom boot or rom, does.

          • jacktherippah
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            2 years ago

            It does. Unlocking the Samsung bootloader blows the e-fuse. Locking your bootloader again won’t do anything to restore functionality.

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              2 years ago

              It’s been a while since I rooted Samsung device.

    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      I’m still rocking my 15+ year old Syncmaster 245BW as my rack monitor and that’s the last Samsung item I purchased.