Fucking manufacturers should be forced to unlock the bootloader once they stop supporting a phone
There are only bad reasons for the bootloader to not be user-unlockable from the start.
This was apparently already patched in AOSP in October and if you use GrapheneOS and opted into security preview updates, you’re already covered.
It does not brick your phone. It causes problems with cellular features.
Joke’s on them. Google already bricked my LTE chip.
From Google “Third-party stores are insecure” and “We won’t fix VPN bugs in all Android versions.”
I’m stuck on an old version of Android. I guess I’m getting a new phone when I get that text.
If it’s older than android 12 it might be safe. I’m still riding a 9.
Classic Google ignoring devices people still use that are bootloader locked meaning you can’t even update them to a secure OS even if you wanted to. And allowing vendors to prevent phones from getting security updates. The phone industry is a total scam.
So you buy a new one every 2 years.
Don’t most phones get security updates for like 7 years now?
No. Has to be enforced by each country/region.
What? Since when? I have never heard of the same phone having different support windows in different regions. How would that even work? You go on holiday with your old phone and suddenly get several years of security updates when you’re in a different country?
The device is Region coded
damn they should really stop making all these new vulnerabilities
This is capitalism at work guys. The only way out is to end it is from the root cause.
So what is in the SMS
The imposter from among us.
A bomb
why do people still buy android
Why are you here then?
surely you understand how lemmy works
fanboys are silly
Says the fanboy
of what?
im very confused what you think i support in the phone department because i think they all suck balls and wish we had better linux options
You started this thread, and continue to defend it, so yes, absolute fanboy.
is english not your first language?
Alternatives include:
- No smartphone. Eccentric, comes with significant practical and social costs.
- Desktop-style Linux (PostmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, others). Most hardware is barely usable or unusable. Few desktop apps are optimized for touch on a phone-sized screen.
- iOS. Apps can’t exist without permission from Apple. Even in jurisdictions that forced them to allow other app stores, notarization is mandatory and they can withhold it.
All of those are bigger problems than the mild crappiness of Android.
Complete tangent, because the OP of this comment thread is a joke anyway, but my boss is in the first group. This guy may own a smartphone but it lives in a drawer, I’m sure. Like, he has never once just scrolled on his phone to kill time, no way. He might have sent one text message in his entire life. And this guy is only a couple years older than me, under 50. Some people just live in a different world. He and I both live in Illinois, just so you know it’s not some third world country. Well, not yet anyways.
im pretty close to becoming the tech guy with a gun next to his toaster, im sick of what the nerd reich has done on all levels of tech
not much i really do on a phone any longer that cant just be done on a pc
bro we both know mild crappiness isnt what im complaining about
also both your option 2 and 3 are better atm
I actually have PostmarketOS installed on an older phone. It’s both really cool, and nearly unusable as a phone. It’s slow. The battery lasts about four hours. The cameras sort of work… or did. I just opened it to refresh my memory of what was broken about the image quality and it says “no camera found”. I hope Linux phones get better, but I can’t replace my Android phone with this now or soon.
As for iOS, I have no comment on whether it’s better than Android or not, nor do I particularly care. Apple’s strict control over the app ecosystem is so unacceptable to me that it makes the platform a non-starter regardless of its merits. I continue to be surprised that’s not a majority opinion among tech-literate people.
/c/unpopularopinion
i genuinely worry for anyone that bases their preferences on how many goobers agree with them
Because the only usable alternative is worse.
have you been paying attention to 2026?
What magical new mobile operating system that supports current, real-world use cases was released in 2026?
quite the contrary things have only gotten worse
its simply what has and how that has rearranged the order of shit tiering in the mobile phone offerings
Sure, because iOS never had this same vulnerability 🤣
Yes, it had the weird symbol that would crash the phone if somebody sent it to you. That was 2024 https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/21/crash-iphone-by-typing-these-letters/
Or that weird image that would also crash the phone. Not sure the year of that.
because clearly its about the vulnerability and not the refusal to actually fix it
Because it’s better than Apple
And no nobody “buys android”, it’s freepre 2026 id agree
but here we are
and don’t be obtuse, no one is talking about you emulating on your pc
