Comment on ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones

• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  pixels are by far the best to degoogled your phone and to have privacy/security/freedom actually

  they go above and beyond letting you unlock your bootloader

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  • Sused@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oneplus? Bootloader is easily unlocked and it can be debloated easily after root

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    • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Rooting is a terrible security risk and there’s no point in doing it. You won’t see the popular roms like GrapheneOS, /e/, or CalyxOS supporting it.

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      • Zuberi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lol this is the technology page and you’re going to try to make the argument to not root(/jailbreak) a phone?.. Genuinely lold

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      • dsmk@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What Asus broke here was the bootloader unlocking. Without that, there’s no custom ROMs or root. Root and bootloader unlocking mean different things.

        Regarding root being a terrible security risk or not, I guess it will depend on the user? I never had any issues and only see it as one more thing that isn’t as safe as it could be… my bootloader is unlocked, the recovery isn’t stock, I’m running a custom ROM so I have to trust the developers/building process, etc.

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    • Zuberi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This 100%

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• DavyJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  See why GrapheneOS only supports pixels

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