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OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse (consumerrights.wiki)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 91 points 9 months ago (15 children)

It's not flashing a custom ROM. It is installing an OS of users choice. Enemy's language shouldn't be used if we want things to change

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    This is why "side load" is annoying to me. It's installing. It is not special or different. They aren't "blocking side loading" they're "restricting what you can install."

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm 100% okay with how my Samsung Galaxy handles it: You access the Developer mode by pressing on the phone info screen in the settings for several seconds, and then there's a switch that allows execution of random .apk files.

    "Yes, do as I say."

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    There was talk about Google changing this, but I'm not sure if that was something that would only affect Pixel phones or all of Android as an ecosystem. Well, to be specific, the change is to not let people run unsigned APKs at all and devs can only get them signed by giving their identification to Google.

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  • [+] -14 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Still custom as it's not the default

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    What makes it "custom"? If you install Linux on a laptop that comes with Windows pre-installed, is Linux then a custom OS it's not being a default? Why phones are any different? Calling it custom you play to the manufacturers pockets making it sound shady and unofficial giving them right to take the control from the customers devices. Soon we won't own anything we buy.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Because for phones they kinda are custom. The smartphone hardware landscape is an absolute clusterfuck of proprietary blobs and closed source drivers and all sorts of shit that makes it so you need a lot of work to customize the base os to work on any particular device. ROMs have rather short lists of compatible phones, and each one of those had to have a build specifically developed for them. You can't take, say, grapheneos and slap it on any phone you like.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Installing linux on your Dell that came with Windows isn't "Installing a custom OS."

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