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>but keeping the bootloader locked is also giving up on their reputation. To a few dozen HN readers who probably don't even own an LG phone ? I'm a pretty tech

>but keeping the bootloader locked is also giving up on their reputation. To a few dozen HN readers who probably don't even own an LG phone ? I'm a pretty tech savvy person but the last time I had the time to install a custom OS on my device cyanogenmod was still around and cheap Chinese phones with custom roms were the only thing available in the affordable phone segment. Modern phones are cheap enough to replace when the OS updates stop coming and you can find distros with minimal crapware preinstalled and functional UI in any price range. Trusting some internet rando not to inject spyware into a ROM build seems riskier than a first party distro. Ditto for OSS that doesn't really get vetted (I wonder how many people review the niche device support code in projects like these) and building from source would probably cost me more in hours spent on it than getting a new flagship.

marcodiego 5y ago
I use a ROM from the e.foundation. It is definitely not comparable to trusting "some internet rando not to inject spyware into a ROM build".
0x_rs 5y ago
I'll take "being able to do as I desire with my mass produced device to the fullest extent permissible currently" over "being forced to bin (or forever keep offline) a multi hundred dollars soon-to-be-ewaste device because it became obsolete few years after production and without software updates and security patches the few remaining applications working are a giant security hole where even viewing an image embedded with malicious code can turn it into a botnet peer and a threat to your network". I'll also take this "risk" which could be applied to various extents to basically all community driven projects such as package managers and more. To me this is a middle finger from LG to its users (of which they may not even be fully aware or caring of, since they're closing the department), but as far as I'm aware their reputation in software has never been brilliant anyway.

marcodiego 5y ago

I use a ROM from the e.foundation. It is definitely not comparable to trusting "some internet rando not to inject spyware into a ROM build".

0x_rs 5y ago

I'll take "being able to do as I desire with my mass produced device to the fullest extent permissible currently" over "being forced to bin (or forever keep offline) a multi hundred dollars soon-to-be-ewaste device because it became obsolete few years after production and without software updates and security patches the few remaining applications working are a giant security hole where even viewing an image embedded with malicious code can turn it into a botnet peer and a threat to your network". I'll also take this "risk" which could be applied to various extents to basically all community driven projects such as package managers and more. To me this is a middle finger from LG to its users (of which they may not even be fully aware or caring of, since they're closing the department), but as far as I'm aware their reputation in software has never been brilliant anyway.