Pretty sure it’s Samsung specific

+1 for buzzkill in general though, it’s a good app

Possibly, the last time I flashed an OS was 2019 and I lost a lot of features that i had on the stock rom and had a lot of battery life and lag issues.

When I was rooting/flashing custom ROMs I was spending a lot of time tinkering or debugging issues. I could deal with forgoing bank apps, Netflix, etc but I stopped in the end after cyanogenmod had an issue that meant emergency calls would soft reboot the phone. It made me realise my phone was an appliance not a hobby, I need to be able to rely on it and not be wondering if something won’t work because of the ROM I have installed or because it’s rooted.

Different uses for a phone then I guess. To me my phone is an appliance like my washing machine. I want it to work when I need it to and be reliable.

Can be quite a bit buggier than stock, can be difficult or impossible to use some apps. You can lose some stock features sometimes. You can spend a lot of time debugging issues.

I don’t want a different experience, I know you can install different Linux OSes on your phone but that’s not what I use my phone for. Last I checked Ubuntu touch barely worked too.

Is that illegal? Aren’t they offering it to you for free? It’s definitely immoral but probably not illegal.

That’s fair, but yeah I don’t really care for that. I can understand why someone would though

What I do on my PC and what I do on my phone are different. Above all the most important feature of my phone is that it works reliably, not that I can tinker or install mods

I don’t care to enhance it any further from the default experience, especially with the downsides

I guess that’s a fair reason. I hadn’t really considered that because I don’t personally care too much

My usage of my phone is different from the usage of devices I specifically install Linux on.

Well Linux is an entire different OS which comes with its own benefits. Rooting makes it a lot more difficult to use apps that use safetynet so doing it because “why not” rather than for a specific benefit doesn’t make sense to me

I had my note 8 for longer than security updates existed so I installed lineageOS on it, it got security updates but lost a ton of other features and became buggy and slow. Maybe with other phones the experience is better.

I was speaking for myself, I have no idea why people do it. Didn’t say there aren’t legitimate reasons, I just don’t know any of them

This is shitty, but genuinely I have no idea why people root or run custom ROMs these days. I haven’t found an actual use for it since about 2015

Edit: plenty have people have given me fair enough reasons now, thanks

Maybe getting out of fixed leases?

In the UK bank transfers are usually instant and free, although PayPal is still used in situations where you wouldn’t want to give out your bank details

You still use cheques in the US??? I see why you need this app now

Are you not able to just pay someone from your bank account?

I’ve not had a standalone Google pay app in years, why was it still a thing in the US?

On my note 8 a few years back I would get push notifications advertising from Samsung

What’s the difference? Is a dip not a drop?

If you don’t use the cloud sync does your phone not have a system gallery app that’s sufficient?

I doubt they’d pull their games off of Steam. Disney are interested in Fortnite as a content delivery platform, not in EGS

Oh Disney has games on steam?

I was afraid this was gonna happen. This sucks.

And what, put them on Disney+?

Banana phone

They also laid off part of Microsoft though

If they make it bad enough nobody will play it and it’ll save them the embarrassment

From the guy behind pebble? Neat

They do do newer OS versions though right? Or am I thinking of something else

You have a not too old flagship device, many people look to install a custom ROM on a phone that doesn’t get security updates anymore to extend it’s life so that effect will be felt a lot more

It crashes probably 90% of the times I launch it but the few times I’ve managed to play I’ve found it to be a lot of fun

A vanilla build of lineage won’t give you any of the actual advantages of a custom ROM either

I don’t think this is a direct result of AI, I think that will take a lot longer to become a problem

I assumed it was an issue with pihole blocking it or something, glad to see it’s not just me

Why not just get a digital camera and a torch?