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.
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.
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?
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.
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
If I can’t rm -rf my root directory, then I’m not happy