• JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I genuinely feel for y’all not able to flash your own OS.

    I bought a fairphone and have been running lineageOS on it.

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      1 month ago

      I think it’s just that we don’t have roms tell our phones are eol?

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        That’s one aspect, but many phones are also just straight-up not jail-breakeable. It’s an unfortunate reality of the phone manufacturing world that they put up as many barriers as possible to try and prevent you from having free range with your phone.

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            The average user doesn’t give a fuck about security. They use whatever manufacturers put in front of them because the alternatives are not known or reasonably available to them.

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            True, but if you had the ability to flash your OS, there’d also be the potential of using a third paty repair shop to get it flashed with a new OS. That would be about the same experience as getting a new phone, but cheaper.

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          Ohh yeah, Samsung will

          1. Disable Knox
          2. Prevent updates to Oneui + Android