Re:
by Dylan16807 on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:06PM
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> Are there some words in the parent comment that "pretend there aren't tradeoffs"
Yes. They quoted it! "you just need root". Especially the word just. That kind of phrasing implies that it's not flat-out impossible on many devices and that it doesn't break major functionality.
"I know users that don't use that feature" is praising with faint damnation.
Re:
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:00AM
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Some people have more than one phone. One phone is for recreational use; it's rooted. Another phone is for work; it's not rooted. Another phone is for stuff like banking, etc.; it's not rooted.
ecapture is top comment. The voters have indicated their preference.
Are there some words in the parent comment that "pretend there aren't tradeoffs". Is it that he did not include a warning about "SafetyNet". What would this "pretending" look like.
Losing access to "a bunch of apps you may care about" seems to be dependent on an assumption: that the reader cares about certain unnamed apps. Yet we cannot even name these apps. We cannot know what apps a user cares about unless the user tells us. I know Android users that do not use any apps that rely on SafetyNet.
Nor do we know what device manufacturer the reader may be dealing with. It might be one that makes rooting easy.
Perhaps we can refrain from making assumptions about readers.