No root, no cake. In the US, that is
In countries where you MUST show your proof of identity to get a number, pray tell me what kind of OPSEC can you employ to not do that?
The problem is, if you're in Europe, your phone number is associated with your identity
Arguable in it being "the best app for privacy". Can you link to a source which shows that phone numbers are not linked to accounts? (Why do they need them anyway?)
TBH I would just use email over TOR and encrypt communication with PGP. Rotate identities every now and then and you should be fine. Yes it doesn't have forward secrecy but it removes the effort to find the "right messaging" service and is instead ubiquitous (and you can sign up for anonymous email addresses online too, which makes it even better).
Sure they don't log the IPs, but it is technically impossible to not know the IP when you're running a centralized service.
Good idea overall, unfortunately they still have your IP and phone number which means Europeans are still implicated
If the US let them sell these here Samsung would be bankrupt in a matter of days.
I believe Xiaomi also lets you root their devices without doing an Asus on their customers
Is Libgen even an entity? What constitutes "Libgen"? I think there might be a way to make this claim invalid by a round-about shrug: "what's libgen"?
Chinese phones that let you unlock the bootloader are actually a great deal
You're not there for fun lol, you're there to pirate stuff. Sure, using Signal to pirate would be fine too but your anonymity depends on how long they honor their word of "no logs". Use a desktop version/ run a VM if you're on MacOS or something.
Everybody hates me when I say it but Apple users should really reconsider their choices if they are at all interested in privacy. Go get a cheap Android device, hope it has a kernel beyond 5.10 and KernelSU it.
I still don't understand; why not simplex/briar?
How do you run Graphene on a Fair phone?
Why is the iPhone better value?
If it can't run GKI then not interested
ADB commands cannot permanently remove system applications, they can only disable them till you get around to wanting to enable them again. The problem starts getting ugly when you disable a lot of stuff at once and then something breaks and you're too lazy to track down which component was necessary. A couple of applications are no problem. Of course, it's been a year since I've tried ADB so RTFM. Don't worry so much about it
Imagine if Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Cox banded together for a showdown against the studios accusing them of liability? AT&T runs an NSA stronghold in Manhattan, they're not going to let their darlings go down in a teeny lawsuit like this. I really want to see this happening. Let them fight.
What else is everyone using to get music? Other than Soulseek.
Hi everybody,
I've been unable to make sense or gain better understanding of the Android update system, so I'm asking here.
Coming from the linux desktop, there's two main parts of the system: the kernel and the userland. I could simply update the kernel without updating userland and vice-versa.
But does it work the same way on Android? Why are we so dependent on OTA updates from the individual manufacturer? I understand that microcode is proprietary and can come only from the device manufacturer, but aren't kernel updates and userland decoupled from this (for devices which support project treble and GKI)? Can't I just run a different FOSS launcher, get the upstream GKI kernel and run it with the microcode offered by the manufacturer?
What consists of an Android "version"? Can't I just not update the microcode beyond what the manufacturer provides, and instead keep updating the kernel (by "kernel" I mean GKI and not the actual linux kernel) and userland and in essence keep updating my android version?
I'm probably missing some fundamental understanding of android here, which is why decided to ask here. Thanks for your help!
By now, most people in the custom ROM community must have already heard of KernelSU. I do think that it is worth the hype and is truly revolutionary, piggybacking on something I credit Google on (to some personal chagrin) - KMI.
The question I have is: when I attempt to install OTA updates to a device with KernelSU running as a Kernel module, will that affect KernelSU? Will I have to root again?