Lka1988

Good to know. I also see you already found the official Lineage OS installation guide. Whatever upgrade/downgrade the LOS devs say needs to be done should be safe as long as you don’t deviate from the instructions.

What device, specifically?

That’s technically how it works already, at least in theory. But we all know that’s 100% bullshit.

Daniel resigned as the head developer a few years ago.

The incident in question happened before that. Also, he’s still listed as a Graphene OS Foundation director, which means he still has a lot of pull.

I always see these comments conveniently leave that out.

You should probably brush up on your research instead of simping.

I don’t know… Part of me thinks that someone overruled Daniel on this decision. He stepped down as the main dev years ago, but is still a director… maybe the other directors overruled Daniel?

But again, I don’t know. I’m just shooting from the hip.

In all the time i looked online Ive never found a legitimate basis for these vague claims of drama around Graphene. See a lot of it in Louis Rossman circles (nothing against him, but he made a dramatic video on YT about leaving GrapheneOS) it’s reactionary at best. Someone got blocked people got mad, full story only the ones directly involved know.

Louis was directly involved with this. He’s the one who exposed the whole situation and brought receipts.

Daniel is extremely paranoid (arguably part of why GOS is as secure as it is), but that paranoia can also lead to anxiety and assuming everyone is “out to get you”.

I got a Nook Color back in 2010. Finding out it was based on Android was my gateway drug 😅. I was well aware of Android devices by that point, a couple of my buddies had HTCs.

Naturally, I rooted the Nook. Ended up flashing CyanogenMod.

Bingo.

After I made that comment, I thought about it some more and realized an existing metaphor already fits:

• Say you see a BMW 316d but with M3 badges. Those who don’t know cars, don’t care. Those who do know cars, know that the owner is full of shit.

Relating this to Android:

• People who don’t use 3rd party app stores, or other apps, don’t care about the developer verification. People who do use those things, already know that Google’s excuses are horseshit.

This verification bullshit will not only affect the developers who will be forced to register with google, but also the very people who made Android what it is today. Custom ROMs brought many features to Android that are now considered core elements:

• Night mode
• Bubble conversations
• Widgets
• Always-on display
• Caffeinate
• Quick settings
• Split screen/multitasking

…and that’s not even scratching the surface. There is so, so much more.

Make use of that second link.

Done. I’m not a dev, but I use apps from github/gitlab/etc. Requiring developer verification is absolutely retarded. And only allowing ADB to install without verification is not the olive branch they’re treating it as. It’s a slap in the face to anyone who actually knows what they’re doing.

Because they are.

I tried using Inbox but couldn’t get past the whole idea of it. I’m old school when it comes to email - just gimme everything and I’ll decide if its important or not.

That said, Google’s decision to kill it did open my eyes to the fuckery.

Then they killed Google Play Music a few years later. I had most of my library uploaded, but didn’t delete my local copy because I’m not insane. That one radicalized me.

You can blame Dodge (yes, that Dodge) for enshrining the importance of shareholders over customers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Despite owning a lifetime Plex Pass, it would put ads in the subtitles. That may be on the site’s end though, not Plex’s.

You would be correct. Plex doesn’t generate the subtitles at all - they are pulled from places like OpenSubtitles. The person/entity that made the subtitles and uploaded them to wherever Plex pulled it from is responsible for that. Absolutely zero to do with having a lifetime Plex Pass.

How many times are they going to keep hyping this thing with the same headlines every couple months?

laughs in root

Moving to Calyx once they restart development.

Doubt it. The outcome of these kinds of things is usually determined by whoever has more money, and an ad company like Branch usually has more money than god.

I remember you have to install the custom bootloader like TWRP to flash the ROM and there was this thing with A and B partitions. Not sure if things change…

Custom recovery on bootloader-unlockable devices is required if you want to do everything on-device. You can still flash ROMs without a custom recovery. I don’t have a custom recovery on my P9PXL, but that’s only because there isn’t one…

Workarounds on locked devices usually install a custom recovery as part of that workaround. Last night, I installed LOS on one of my kids’ old Kindle Fire tablets. Amazon makes it really difficult, there’s a whole series of scripts and commands just to get TWRP installed. But once that’s done, you can load a ROM and flash it on-device.

The question has already been answered. No point in me saying the same thing as others, but this question will always be asked regardless, so I pointed out the obvious thing people don’t like to accept: If you’re asking random internet strangers, then you’re not important enough to need this kind of security.

There’s pretty much no reason for the average Joe to worry about this kind of thing. If that was the case, they would already be acutely aware of the security risks imposed by unlocking the bootloader and installing a custom ROM. The biggest threat to mobile devices is physical access - but if someone has physical access to your device, all bets are off anyway.

Instead you are actibg pretentious and unhelpful.

I know it sounds rude, but there really isn’t any other way to explain this.

If you have to ask, then you aren’t important enough to actually be worrying about this kind of thing.

If you were that important, then you would already know the answer to your question.