I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I disagree.
I want the freedom to install the OS I want on my phone. Now if I install a proprietary OS, I get what the developers of that proprietary OS choose to do. And if that proprietary OS does not give me root access, well, that's life.
“I want root access to my phone” is a nonsensical statement on some level. It’s a device. The fact you have mistaken it for a Unix machine is your own delusion.
Did people used to get like this about pocket calculators or digital watches? “Why am I forced to be limited to only the manufacturer’s firmware?”
Dunno about you but I had to jailbreak my TI84 to run what I wanted to on it
the fact this opinion is voted down, is clear proof HN is late to be renamed something else, because hacker it isn't
I once again am pointing to the sign that states this was never a l33t-hax0r board like you all think; it's always been an arm of one of the leading VC incubators.
Stop expecting differently.
Curious now: why did they call it "hackernews"? I came for the name, definitely not for the VCs. The one thing I dislike more than BigTech is VCs.
You answered your own question :)
Haha yeah, well played :-)
HN for HackerNots.
I don’t think that hackers would agree to be locked out of a system, or do you mean they want to be locked out as a challenge? In any case you don’t get to choose which OS gets installed, so the parent’s opinion is hypothetical.
> In any case you don’t get to choose which OS gets installed
Of course you do. You can run GrapheneOS, or LineageOS, postmarketOS, or mobian, or many others. All of those are open source, you can modify them as you want before you flash them.
All the same OS in a different shirt
HN has and always will be majority lil VC money funded tech bros who know nothing about actual hacking