@mangeurdenuage >Have to unlock the phone, exploit seven vulnerabilities to implant /bin/su on the system, void the warranty, wave my right to use banking applications and get McDonalds coupons, install a custom bootloader ported by God-knows-who from the bowels of a Calcutta slum, and run a custom environment all to find out the irreplaceable RAM embedded in the phone's CPU is broken and I need to buy a new nightmare slab
@mangeurdenuage@iamtakingiteasy I just activated a credit card that could ONLY be activated in the application, not on the phone, not online. Just a sneak peak into the next generation of hellworld.
@idiot@mangeurdenuage There is a command line option that can be passed to the kernel, Linux that tells it not to use or allocate know bad RAM segments, which solves the bad RAM issue, although setting that on Android is very difficult, unlike on GNU/Linux where you just edit /etc/default/grub and run grub-mkconfig.
please help resist these demands for people to carry tracking devices. they're entrenching a duopoly of software enshittification, and as convenient as the app might seem, that trend will only harm us all in the long run.
please look for another service provider that doesn't impose such abusive requirements, let those that do know why they're not going to get your business, and ask anyone who will listen to you to do the same