While the Motorola/GrapheneOS news is interesting, it’s a shame that GrapheneOS’s lack of root access continues to be a significant limitation. For users who prioritize data ownership and the ability to create full, local backups (Swift Backup being a prime example), it’s simply not a viable option. Security is important, but so is control over your own data.

Bazzite on my gaming PC, CachyOS on another.

Both systems are amazing! Bazzite, in particular, lets you easily install apps from almost any distribution using Distrobox. Want to install an app that’s only available in the Arch AUR? No problem!

Many users were buying OpenPlus Pro smartphones solely because of the ability to unlock the bootloader and flash custom ROMs. People value freedom and customization. OpenPlus is shooting itself in the foot.

Someday Microsoft might realize that Windows should be rolling‑based, like CahyOS. It will be too late for them to catch up and bring everyone back to Windows.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but GrapheneOS is designed to prevent users from gaining root (admin) privileges. Consequently, even if the device is compromised, you will never be aware of it. I don’t care about the moronic reasons behind this; this is my device, and it should be under my control.

Great. Also Dolpin is better that macOS Finder, I would replace it with Dolphin as well.

not on any Android device, but some device categories like smartphones

Hm, are there any categories? I didn’t see any, but maybe they’ve added them already. They log whatever they can. Today it’s smartphones, but tomorrow it could be other devices and other things to be logged and uploaded to Google, like screenshots. The problem is that it’s done behind your back, and many people are unaware of this creepy activity.

By the way, screenshots are already uploaded if you did not disable the option to automatically upload all photos to the cloud. And we’re discussing North Korea here, LOL.

Have you checked what’s in it? Every action and touch is logged with all the details. Many people didn’t even guess that such actions could be logged. It’s like super spyware activity; it’s very creepy. “Google is tracking your every touch on any Android device” - is exactly what it does.

I first noticed this issue around 2015, and I have been trying to disable it on every Android device since then. However, it re-enables itself from time to time. I have a few Google accounts, and it must be disabled on each one.

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