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0 pointscriddell6y ago0 comments

> I have no interest in devices I have to break into in order to make them do what I want them to do.

And that is?

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mastazi6y ago· 2 in thread

Do you have time? The list is going to be really long.

Just two examples: removing Google apps from Android devices, installing non-store apps on iOS.

If you run a web search along the lines of "best apps for rooted Android" or "best apps for jailbroken iPhone" you will find many more examples of useful things that you can do with rooted/jailbroken devices.

criddellOP6y ago

But the Librem 5 isn't a rootable Android or iOS device, it's a Linux phone. What's an example of some killer Linux-only app that's needed on a phone?

mastazi6y ago

Bash, apt-get, chmod, vim, grep, cat, crontab, python3, pip3, httpd, sqlite3, ps, ls, top, df, lsblk, ifconfig, iptables, perl, apt-cache, chown, nano...

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