Comment on ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones
mojo@lemm.ee 10 months agopixels 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
Sused@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Oneplus? Bootloader is easily unlocked and it can be debloated easily after root
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.
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
mojo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yes…? You can have custom roms without sacrificing security. There’s genuinely no reason to root anymore.
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.
Zuberi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This 100%