How the mighty have fallen. I got my OnePlus One in 2015 with CyanogenMod preinstalled (although I reinstalled the vanilla OS after, and rooted it easily). Enshitification indeed, no brand is safe.
Whaaaat
Mfers I bought the phone, I do whatever the hell i want with it
Not in their eyes.
Phones already literally come with a EULA. The wording may or may not be the same, but the intent is.
You don't own your phone, you silly thing. What you own is an unexclusive and transferrable (for now, Teslas don't even have that for example) licence to use most features of the phone.
As long as your allowed to sadly.
Nothing phone seems to be the best choice today. A few models, so notmuch choice, but solid hardware unbloated android and unlockable bootloader.
I own a 3a and am pretty happy. Bulky and heavy tough.
The writing's been on the wall since they swapped to ColorOS with Android 12 and the bootloader update that came with it that no longer supports relocking, along with the delayed/nonexistent source code releases for the kernel.
It's very sad that basically the only real option is Google's Pixels, and even there the tides are turning.
Damn that sucks. I only buy phones that allow unlocking. Currently on a OP8T. Probably going used Pixel/GrapheneOS next, but really a usable Linux phone can't come soon enough.
isnt google walling in thier OS soon, and it seems other phone makers are following suit.
Yeah, seems like bad times ahead. Definitely looking forward to that Linux phone.
i considered doing it, but im not a tech saavy person so i just use the stock android on OP12R. i just dint like SAMSUNG and pixel, consider thier heavy invesmetn AI, while sacrificing what makes thier phone different.
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