I’m frustrated. I’m a long time fan of Motorola. Their phones have been pretty simple and easy to remove junk apps. Recently I got an update that forced perplexity on my phone.

  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
    161·
    5 days ago

    Re: all the other root concerns. I’m on Graphene sans root and it’s fine because my OS isn’t actively cockblocking anything. I can even spoof GPS and such. Is there something you know you need root for v the normal setup on non-Googled Android forks?

    • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz
      2·
      3 days ago

      Not OP, but Neobackup (full app backup) and Hail (ability to “freeze” - stop apps until you explicitly run them again) are my two big use cases for root

    • zarenki@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 days ago

      Similar to the full app backup use-case mentioned in another comment, I regularly use root to (through adb shell) make a personal backup of my owned kindle books and keys which I can then use to convert them to DRM-free epub and read those books in non Amazon approved apps. The encrypted books are in shared storage but the key to decrypt them is in an app-private database. I also occasionally backup my own apk/obb files.

      A “security model” designed around the idea that users should never be able to have any kind of access, not even read-only, to the data that app developers store on their owned device if the developer doesn’t want them to is one that is fundamentally incompatible with computing freedom.

      I keep a secondary device with rooted Lineage at home for the few apps I want root access to, instead of rooting my daily driver, but I always feel like it would be reassuring to have the ability to make proper backups from my main phone.