• ratsby@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There’s a difference between not having full ownership and not bothering to use it. There’s plenty of options from rooting to full custom ROMs, and as far as I know Samsung does nothing to prevent you using those, they just don’t do it for you / provide support and updates.

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      1 year ago

      My Canadian S10E has no way to unlock the bootloader.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, you shouldn’t have to root your phone to own it though. This is just straight up asshole design, there are plenty of people out there who aren’t technically savvy who don’t know how to do this stuff. They shouldn’t be forced to circumvent the default software just to remove an app they don’t want in the first place.

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      1 year ago

      Last time I bothered researching, Google pixel was the only one that didn’t void the warranty when you unlock the bootloader.

      I remember Samsung being especially locked down with hardware e-fuses that blew if you ran any software not signed by their key. You could never reset back to stock afterwards.