No root, no cake. In the US, that is

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

Chinese phones that let you unlock the bootloader are actually a great deal

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

Exactly. People should read your comment before shouting at me for not providing “proof”. They seem incapable to understand that Big Tech can be smarter and more resourceful than a lot of security engineers

And because some random report from a third-party who is just as interested in profit said something that matches the worldview of the general masses is out, you’re going to believe them?

I don’t care what “tech” it is, they are incentivized to lie and you know it. I am still baffled at how absolutely anyone takes the word of corporations to heart

How do you think your friend in the woods got the advertisements?

And yes, I still think you’re too trusting of Big Tech. They are 100 times more vile than you think they are. THEY WILL do everything they can, and this is nothing to them.

The funny part is nobody wants to believe me and instead want to trust for-profit companies for their supposed pinkie-promises. Oh well, they’ll learn in time.

I do not see why everyone wants to deny this and trust big tech. After you lot completely brainwashed?? Assume the worst, that malicious applications are recording both your microphone and your camera, and do the best you can. Anyone even taking Meta’s/Google’s side here is absurd to me.

It runs on a rooted device?

I think they should stop working on new features other than the occasional option and make these all about security updates

If only they were supported by Lineage

You’ll have a hard time running AI on relatively affordable mobile devices

Why do you want a mobile device specifically?

Just use any cheap one that you can find that runs Linux well. There’s 100s of them I’m sure you’ll find your pick

Singe Board Computer

Get an SBC with a battery backup

Which device and Android version? The Samsung and Motorola devices I used to have would never let me do this

You’d have to download the OTA and flash the device yourself