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Since phones are nothing else than computers nowadays: I want a phone that I own! The mobile phones are by far more limiting and take away control of the owner
by h0nd 6y ago
Since phones are nothing else than computers nowadays: I want a phone that I own!
The mobile phones are by far more limiting and take away control of the owner.
A simple example would be the possibility to edit the HOSTS file on Android. I am the owner and administrator of this device, yet I am unable to do basic controls of my device.
- megous 6y agoOr just troubleshooting things, even if you don't want to change anything. You're not even allowed to view what's stored on your phone. My gf asked me why her Android can't install new apps (gplay says it doesn't have enough space to install 14MiB app, phone says it has 200MiB free). So I go to adb shell to see what's taking up space, df says 700MiB free on user data filesystem (so the stupid gplay app is lying). `ls` and `du` says permission denied almost everywhere. To unlock/root the phone, it needs to be erased, or needs some apk installed (which doesn't work). Even Windows 95 20 years ago had less shitty debugging experience. Just makes me glad I never bought a smartphone, personally. Other time we needed access was just to back up the list of contacts. Also not possible without a stupid possibly closed source apk. It's not even part of adb backup. But many regular apps are allowed to steal your contact list and send it anywhere they want. Bleh. "User hostile" doesn't even cut it, when you lose access to your data the moment app installation breaks, and can't get to your data via debug tools.
- h0nd 6y agoExactly, thats my point, too. You brought up a very nice example (which i actually experienced first hand as well). I feel forced to circumvent this so called 'protection'.