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

• 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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  • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes…? You can have custom roms without sacrificing security. There’s genuinely no reason to root anymore.

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    • Zuberi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can’t tell if troll or not

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      • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Can you use English words to explain why you think this is wrong, or are you just wasting internet bandwidth

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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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