Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”

Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by literallycancer on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:30AM (#25763177)

This seemed unlikely since S10 is maybe the most mainstream flagship phone but it appears that Samsung does indeed make it painful to take control of your device: https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html#samsung-syst...

Many manufactures make it easy to unlock and root your device (shout-out oneplus), but many others do try to make you brick it if you try doing anything out of the ordinary. Like the HMD rebrands Nokia, Sharp, etc.

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Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by birdman3131 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:34PM (#25768252)

Oneplus requires you to wipe your phone to root it. Add to this that there is no way to backup the phone without rooting it.

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Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by tomatocracy on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:47AM (#25776186)

You can get the same backups you would have if you never rooted it to start with. I agree in some cases that's not enough but it's not no backups of any sort. Mostly just more hassle to restore.

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Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by literallycancer on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:41AM (#25777653)

Of course, everyone requires a wipe. That's to protect normies' data when they inevitably get their stuff stolen on a trip to Paris. Easy to live with, just root it first thing after unboxing.

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