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Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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I wish you could slap a custom rom on whatever phone you want and it Just Works™ like you can slap linux on any PC, but instead we get apps that potentially don't work, locked bootloaders, push notifications tied to Google Play Services, and whatever else. You can put Lineage on the EU version of my phone but not the US version because fuck you. I hate how corpo centric phones have become. Like Google shouldn't be allowed to hijack my entire screen for an ad or an app update. The entire modern definition of "sideloading" is BS, apps have access by default to things that they really don't need, and why do I need to use ADB to purge your pre-installed bloatware ffs
Not cool.
We can get same experience quite soon on laptops too when arm laptops&desktop will arrive toensd users.It gonna be lock down same as phones nowdays.
I do not like this prediction, because it seems like a plausible reality. Which would be awful.
risc-V laptops might compete with arm in a few years - maybe not for power users, but for most simpl use , or for those who will just ssh into real computer.
ngl a unlocked bootloader would be a security nightmare but you can put any rom on any android 8+ device they are called gsi roms
So, like a desktop or laptop? Sounds fine to me.
How does one flash a ROM without unlocking the bootloader these days?
Shouldn't that break Android Verified Boot?
A pure GSI image could use a Google key, I suppose, but others shouldn't, right?
You have to unlock it fire and flash the gsi rom
I'm not an expert, but I had an expert explain that an unlocked boot loader is only risky if you think someone nefarious is physically able to get their hand on your phone. Is that true?
Yeah it would’ve been like that for pcs too if they weren’t around for quite longer.