But as long as it’s possible to flash back the original firmware, warranty should still apply

and because of that, that’s the responsibility of the device owner.

Backups are, first and foremost, your responsibility

I’m looking forward to your advice on how to backup a device with encrypted storage, that rolls a new key when you factory reset it.

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who the fuck needs google’s suggestions? It’s not a necessity

it still can enshittify, but we can save it with the help of git and the fork button

It’s not only the results, though, but other features too

well they don’t need to fight for new users anymore. Everyone uses it already, and children are basically indoctrinated to it: all schools have that as search engine, often they even use google classroom and drive and whatnot on the classes. if they have chromebooks, the chrome browser automatically starts after login even if you don’t want to use it, and you can’t unpin it from the taskbar either

If you change the bootloader to some other software, how could the software company be expected to provide support for something they may have no knowledge of?

like xiaomi did, in the past at least. if you can reinstall the official software, you can receive service under warranty

My point here is that I don’t think it’s reasonable to legally require a software company to

phone manufacturers are hardware companies first and foremost

It’s fair for them to flash the original software as part of any diagnostic or service process

only fair if it does not come with any data loss. so basically not actually fair

and what will store the authentication information, safely, if not a password manager? and don’t say that everyone will have a hardware security token

Because webauthn does not give anything that a proper password manager couldn’t automate anyway

the pin is a per-device thing, you need to set it up first to use it

won’t fix the problem.

won’t fix the problem.

honestly, with that level of carelessness or stupidity they really shouldn’t use a smartphone

honestly, with that level of carelessness or stupidity they really shouldn’t use a smartphone

that’s roughly what I experience too. It’s like if they would see a colorful pane of glass, but could not make a distinction between the “boxes” on the screen

on the contrary

doesn’t need to remember the master password if you set up an unlock PIN. Actually I think maybe it’s a bad idea to let them remember the master password, because they may just type it in everywhere expecting it to work…

Signal in contrast has the option to hide your phone number and only expose a username to the public.

don’t worry, the app of all participants knows all the numbers, they just dont show them on the UI. a patched app will show them just as well

https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedback-for-the-upcoming-android-7-0-release/59024/51

the feature got implemented in this commit: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/bb30535afb79c8570fc7aa75b56d03892be6b70f

surveillance cameras out in the forest? what a time to be alive! say bye bye to privacy even out in the nature, because everything must be watched