• Unlock bootloader (depending on vendor, you have to do an online verification),
  • flash a recovery.img,
  • load into recovery mode (which, depending on the phone, might need extra work)
  • wipe some caches,
  • select new os/rom image,
  • pray it doesn’t brick your phone.

You’d think someone would’ve learned a thing or two from the easy graphical installations linux and even windows have been offering since the late 2000s.

    • @rockSlayer
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      Yes. In the minds of executives, we’re paying to use their devices instead of purchasing it. They don’t believe that we should have the right to do whatever we want with the device we purchased.

      • @[email protected]
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        These executives are from the era where it was a quarter for every sms message. Still chasing the gravy train.

    • originalucifer
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      ha, you werent under the impression you were buying a device, were ya?

      youre buying a software license that happens to come with a piece of hardware.

      • @grue
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        810 months ago

        youre buying a software license that happens to come with a piece of hardware.

        They claim that, but they’re lying.

        • originalucifer
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          810 months ago

          yeah but their lawyers have louder voices. it kinda sucks how they obfuscate our rights.

          • Russ
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            310 months ago

            Exactly, its like if I claimed online that I had a million bucks - even if I weren’t lying, it doesn’t matter unless the right people believe my claim. It’s the same premise here really, the truth only counts when you actually have power sadly.

        • @[email protected]
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          They’re only lying as long as people can continue to over and over find their way around the obstacles they place in the way, and it gets harder all the time. They have more money and more resources and more organization than the hackers trying to defeat them, they’re winning the war of attrition. We may be able to make small breakthroughs here and there, but overall we continue to lose more and more territory, because the amount of effort is disproportionate to the goals. Most of what’s left of the custom ROM community has given up on the losing battle with manufacturers and providers and changed focus to the various freephones but even they have their own troubles and are fragmented and short-lived. Between carriers, manufacturers, and content providers the whole mobile ecosystem is designed to be impenetrable. It is intentionally a fortress full of deadly traps and open source supporters have no hope to breach it anytime soon.

        • @yamanii
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          Just like you can’t break a consumer’s product, but The Crew is closing down in march and ubisoft made no end of life effort meaning everyone will have useless software after the servers are down.

    • @grue
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      Yes, they think it’s their device even after they sold it. The FTC really ought to be making it abundantly clear that they’re wrong, but it’s been regulatory-captured, so…