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arrow-up1922arrow-down1external-linkWindows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownershipwww.windowscentral.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square204linkfedilink
minus-squareSkv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·3 months agoRoot and use custom roms.
minus-squareAzuranAurora@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 months agoOnly works if your device has an unlockable bootloader, and most phones nowadays are completely locked down.
minus-squareSkv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·3 months agoMost but not all. If someone cares THAT much about making a free account and telemetry, a few minutes on XDA won’t hurt their schedule.
minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoThat’s the direction that many manufacturers are trying to push PCs as well.
minus-squaredemonsword@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoalas, most models of android phones don’t have support from the custom roms that currently exist
minus-squareSkv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoIf, the roms exist, there’s clearly hardware for them…
minus-squaredemonsword@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAnd what should you suggest we should do with the ones that don’t? Bury them all at some landfill?
minus-squareSkv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·3 months agoWell, they were born e-waste, so yea. If the consumer is in middle of the lake of information, but refuses to drink anything but bottled corpo propaganda and dies from dehydration…
Root and use custom roms.
Only works if your device has an unlockable bootloader, and most phones nowadays are completely locked down.
Most but not all. If someone cares THAT much about making a free account and telemetry, a few minutes on XDA won’t hurt their schedule.
That’s the direction that many manufacturers are trying to push PCs as well.
alas, most models of android phones don’t have support from the custom roms that currently exist
If, the roms exist, there’s clearly hardware for them…
And what should you suggest we should do with the ones that don’t? Bury them all at some landfill?
Well, they were born e-waste, so yea. If the consumer is in middle of the lake of information, but refuses to drink anything but bottled corpo propaganda and dies from dehydration…