If root is the only way then most affected apps will halt development due to missing users.

Sure, then two months later pm install gets the same restrictions.

I agree with in-app backup solution.

There are three types of apps on my phone:

• Apps that don’t have any important local data (calculator, calendar (synced with web(cal/DAV/…), etc) for which a basic apk backup is enough and doesn’t cause any data corruption.
• Apps that have changing important data and implement backups (WhatsApp, signal)
• Apps that have important data, but that data is static (voyager, Mixplorer) in which I export the data once using in-app settings

Photos are backed up using immich, internal storage is backed up using restic in termux, started automatically from tasker.

This whole setup doesn’t require root btw, with root you can also backup system settings. The only thing I’d want to improve is not having to login to all the apps again but I had to do that even with root backups in the past so I’ll have to wait until google finally stops trying to force everyone into their shitty cloud backups. (Tough chance that…)

I have used Neo Backup before, worked well enough.

Never heard of DataBackup before but their github page doesn’t convince me:

Features

• 🌳 Root needed, support Magisk, KernelSU, APatch

• 🌀 Multi-user Support

• ☁️ Cloud

• 😎 100% Data Integrity

• ⚡ Fast

• ☀️ Easy

• 🌹 …

1 isn’t a feature 3 doesn’t tell me much of anything 3 is a lie and not even logically sound (not even google has 100% data integrity guarantee but this project has?) 4 is barely a feature and missing context or benchmarks 5 easy isn’t a feature 6 what?

Their website and app store pages also have very little content. Meanwhile Neo Backup has tons of docs, infos and I’ve seen more people use it.

Tldr: Use NeoBackup

The Watt-hour (Wh) rating may not exceed 20 Wh for a lithium ion cell or 100 Wh for a lithium ion battery.

The difference between cells and batteries is that you have to have multiple lithium cells to make a battery.

Edit: this is around 25000 mAh

Just waiting for someone to “leak” a phone and it turns out to be last years phone, just to see how long it takes people to notice.

Create a tar, push it, then untar using adb shell?

Update: April 15, 2025 (3:35 AM ET): Samsung has confirmed that the One UI 7 update will resume shortly. According to a solutions manager on Samsung’s Korean community forums, the rollout was temporarily paused due to maintenance-related issues. However, the inspection is now complete, and the update is expected to restart soon. Here’s the full statement:

https://www.androidauthority.com/one-ui-7-rollout-resuming-3544322/

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/

Of course it runs Doom

I think google wants to run GUI applications without any vnc involved.

I think you can’t change that on any other os.

Small correction: Using Networkmanager in KDE/Linux you can select the frequency (and even individual APs) in the GUI.

Because no person in my life uses it I made the generalization that it isn’t used much, leading to my top comment.

The point is to take the base communication technology (texting) and bring it to the 21st century without being beholden to some American company.

Is this satirical? RCS is beholden to some American company as far as I can tell.

They still need an RCS client on PC, etc.
All the apple users I know use WhatsApp, Signal, telegram and not one uses IMessage, not even the company I work at, which uses iPhones mainly, uses IMessage for communication, private or otherwise.

I guess so? I haven’t met anyone who’s using sms for that but apparently that’s just regional.

It’s going live in a few months iirc.

Yeah you need a TrickyStore and a valid key, though my point is that they can pick and choose who can be an RCS client.

Did you expect it to ever get better? Best google can do is kill background apps without your permission.

So we’re back to square one, five messengers and one which "can do anything"©®™ led by google. No thanks I’d rather let SMS be as it is.

As far as I can see you can’t join the network without some kind of authorization (see rooted phones being unable to).

No, I’m saying that there isn’t. You can use all those things on every platform, RCS would be the 6th program you need to install besides the other 5 you already have and it seems useless compared to the rest.

Edit: platform as in android, windows, iOS etc

SMS can literally be read by anyone spinning up a fake mobile tower, there is no e2e encryption and probably a few other security concerns I don’t even know, I’ll use WhatsApp before I use SMS as secure communication.

Edit: RCS fixes (some of?) this but at this point why not use something even better?

They don’t need 5 programs, there are lots of messaging services that work across the major platforms that people use, I don’t understand why we would want a new , “official” client made by google which locks out anyone they don’t like (rooted devices, third parties) which doesn’t even have the advantages of already existing options in terms of privacy, usability, and security.

Also they’d need 6 programs, the 5 they had before and now RCS.

It probably depends on where you live.

Why do you prefer/use SMS?

I don’t know any person using sms for regular communication, everyone I know uses some kind of messenger app.

I doubt that those companies will switch to RCS unless they’re forced to and I’d rather they switch to time based tokens generated on the client device instead.

Maybe I missed something but who even cares about RCS?

Great! Now I can play frogger from both perspectives at once.

Anyone wanna take bets on how long it takes before there’s a lawsuite?

“Made you look”

I agree, I hope it just dies off like most of googles projects and leaves the space for better alternatives.

For now

That’s not Firefox forcing you to update, you had Firefox open while you (/your package manager) was updating Firefox and after the update was done Firefox needs to be reopened. To prevent this you just have to …not update Firefox while it is running.