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Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nowadays you don't even need to root your phone; certains custom roms do that by default

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

And to install a custom ROM you need to unlock your boot loader and root it anyways. Do custom roms even come with a non-root option? I haven't done it in years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You.. Dont need to root your device to install a custom rom? You can very well unlock your device, flash a custom rom, and use it unrooted. Nowadays quite a lot of custom rom come with a kernel prepatched for KSU, but that's obviously not a requirement..

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

Bruh, last device I rooted and unlocked was in like 2015. Lost the need to do it.

Back then though, I'd never heard of a custom ROM that doesn't have root enabled by default. Is that where we are at now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I still custom rom my devices to get rid of applications I don't need. Plus root is useful for automatizing the updating of my apps from third party stores ; but Shizuku exists so that's not the only way to do it.

But yeah, nowaydays you need usually to flash magisk to have root, or to use a kernel compiled with support for KSU.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Grapheneos doesn't require root before install or allow root after install

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

You don't have to root to install custom ROM