Take Screenshots
Silly me, I thought this list would be relevant.
Some apps disable one from taking screenshot, with root, one can bypass those restriction.
Imagine if windows disable you from using the “Print Screen” button!
It kinda does. In android and windows you have some apps/windows appear fully black in all screenshots and recordings. For windows this is some drm functionality which programs can call up. It also allows locking audio devices etc.
King shit for saving the click
All this list does is prove that the rooting community is indirectly contributing to the mainline distribution by innovating where Google and OEMs won’t bother.
Also, stock Android still doesn’t let me customize my hard/soft buttons, so I’ll be sticking with LineageOS.
It’s weird that they would tout “disabling” apps as a gained feature. Like yeah it’s slightly better than bloatware being able to continue running with no recourse, but that ignores that the more original state of computers used to (and still do on x86 systems) do nothing to get in the way of the user being able to delete whatever the hell we want.
Even Linux is slowly moving to an immutable system like Android. It is simply the best approach for an OS that non-technically-inclined people use - it’s much harder to screw up beyond repair by accident - and clearly the future of operating systems (well, future for Linux at least, mobile platforms and maybe macOS are already there).
There’s a world of difference between default, but optional, immutability, that can be freely augmented with admin privileges and a bit of learning; and a full on lockdown that’s tantamount to DRM that requires a person to make unsupported and security-compromising modifications to their entire system to bypass.
Also “the future of…” anything reeks of cult of inevitable progress. Things move and branch multidimensionally, and trying to shoehorn all systems into being the same is just pathological.
But man rooting adds more features I kinda want(eg install oses via android,adblocking/ internetl blocking a app without a vpn) I don’t wanna do it rn because it will trip knox + my phone is under warranty.
The answer is Dont Root Your Phone.
