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    Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    Isn't Android just Linux under the hood? You are free to brick your device with root access.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yes, but a lot of devices don't support getting root access, or come with caveats from doing so (I remember at least on Sony devices in the past, doing so permanently erased the proprietary camera blobs which resulted in forever low quality pictures).

    That being said, you can disable system apps in Android (with exceptions, can't disable SystemUI obviously) which is about as good as deleting them. Since they're on the system partition which is separate from the user data partition, it doesn't actually grant you any usable free space anyways AFAIK.

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

    I remember disabling the Keyboard app on my phone with root

    After that, I was unable to log in to the phone due to the inability to enter a password

    I had to restore it from the phones BIOS

    [–] LemoineFairclough 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Hopefully one can plug in a USB keyboard and it allows you to enter your password if this happens again!

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

    Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

    plug in a USB keyboard

    Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

    I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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