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    [–] [email protected] 131 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Saving this for when people ask why I need root access on my devices.

    [–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Lol I love the "You don't need root on modern Android, it does all the things you used to root for!" People. No, no it doesn't lmao

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    That's generally what you hear from people who have basic use cases and simply can't fathom other people may want or need different things from their devices.

    Which is fine, they don't have to understand. If stock is good enough for them nowadays, more power to them.

    What I'm sick of is the condescension. This bizarre thing where they somehow think a person wanting control over a device they paid for is worthy of derision or shame.

    It's like if someone who only checks their email on their laptop laughing at someone using a desktop for heavier work, for no real reason other than thinking using technology differently than themselves is silly.

    That other comment is a perfect example, and indictive of this weird subculture in Android spaces that hates Google but seems to be drinking from the same user-hostile Kool aid.

    Personally, I'm an odd case, in that I didn't used to root or use custom ROMs at all until recent years. Basically since Android 10, simply to get around the needless roadblocks and restore the functions I want. I was fine with stock for a long time, until Google started becoming Apple.