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But as long as it's possible to flash back the original firmware, warranty should still apply

and because of that, that's the responsibility of the device owner.

Backups are, first and foremost, your responsibility

I'm looking forward to your advice on how to backup a device with encrypted storage, that rolls a new key when you factory reset it.

who the fuck needs google's suggestions? It's not a necessity

it still can enshittify, but we can save it with the help of git and the fork button

It's not only the results, though, but other features too

well they don't need to fight for new users anymore. Everyone uses it already, and children are basically indoctrinated to it: all schools have that as search engine, often they even use google classroom and drive and whatnot on the classes. if they have chromebooks, the chrome browser automatically starts after login even if you don't want to use it, and you can't unpin it from the taskbar either

If you change the bootloader to some other software, how could the software company be expected to provide support for something they may have no knowledge of?

like xiaomi did, in the past at least. if you can reinstall the official software, you can receive service under warranty

My point here is that I don't think it's reasonable to legally require a software company to

phone manufacturers are hardware companies first and foremost

It's fair for them to flash the original software as part of any diagnostic or service process

only fair if it does not come with any data loss. so basically not actually fair

I don't mean they do this consistently, but that they do this by chance. sometimes people end up spending money on bad brands

Who the fuck would buy a TV like this?

mindless consumers

and what will store the authentication information, safely, if not a password manager? and don't say that everyone will have a hardware security token

Because webauthn does not give anything that a proper password manager couldn't automate anyway