Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoWindows 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.comexternal-linkmessage-square214linkfedilinkarrow-up1929arrow-down19
arrow-up1920arrow-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 · 17 days agomessage-square214linkfedilink
minus-squareSkv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·17 days agoRoot and use custom roms.
minus-squareAzuranAurora@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·17 days agoOnly works if your device has an unlockable bootloader, and most phones nowadays are completely locked down.
minus-squareSkv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·17 days 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-up3·16 days agoThat’s the direction that many manufacturers are trying to push PCs as well.
minus-squaredemonsword@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 days agoalas, most models of android phones don’t have support from the custom roms that currently exist
minus-squareSkv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoIf, the roms exist, there’s clearly hardware for them…
minus-squaredemonsword@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days 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-down1·15 days 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…