Hilarious, I just got a reach out for working on the Pixel camera
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Verizon let me root my 2018 phone and stop installing candycrush on it you fucking pieces of shit!!!!
If you have any intent to play with Android OS variants or the stock OS, don't buy Verizon devices. Ever. They will not give you the decryption key or unlock key.
Apple, Google, Samsung and Motorola all sell devices on their websites as full price or up to 36 month financing. You can get them carrier unlocked. Motorola and Google offer bootloader unlocking should you want to.
No, they will give me root access to the devices that I own. Or they will cease operations on this planet.
Luigi, is that you?
This is the best way to do headcount reductions imo. In large organisations there's always someone who's been there for a long time and gotten tired of the work, and that would gladly take this type of offer if it's lucrative enough.
To demonstrate - imagine that you've been considering quitting your job for a while. Then someone comes along and says that if you do that, you also get some additional cash for free. You'd probably take it, right?
And if you necessarily need to reduce headcount, then there's also the argument that if someone leaves voluntarily, then someone who wants to stay doesn't have to get pushed out.
So yeah, I'm not against this
Neither pixel nor android teams should need reductions, this is Google being cheap and fucking with employees' income for no reason other than blind greed.
I mean, you're probably right, but between this and regular layoffs? This every day of the week
Neither pixel nor android teams should need reductions
Oh, you work there? Please regale us with your insider knowledge
My thoughts exactly.
In my experience with this format, only the good ones are leaving and you're stuck with the rest.
My last job did this. They offered more for those who had worked there longer. People with over 15 years got about a years pay and they all took it. People who had been there under a year got nothing so they all stayed.
I was going to take then they withdrew the offer for all devs. I think a lot tried to take it and they realised no one would be left. I would have got 3-4 months pay. Loads of institutional knowledge lost though, i left anyway a few months later.
Absolutely. The ones who've resigned mentally are fine within their positions. The people with all the business connections and references will be the ones to grab the money and simply start something new. It happened at my company. I was only 3 years in, so it wasn't enough money for me to quit. But loads of good people left the company.
Have you considered voluntary redundancy?
No.
Have you considered involuntary redundancy?
I really should switch to Graphene
Can I install my bank app on it yet? I remember having problems with attestation in the past.
What about full application backups? I've got a few offline apps, I'd like to transfer the data to/from. However, I thought grapheneOS needed the application developer to "approved" this backup/restore method - or you needed root (which invalidated attestation)... I don't recall which it was (but I really miss titanium backup).
Which banking app? I can try to install and launch it, tho I probably won't ask for your login to test that, haha
Does Stanford Federal Credit Union launch?
This one also needed me to enable “exploit protection compatibility mode” for the app to get it to stop crashing immediately on launch, but it doesn’t complain about attestation or anything. I get right to the login screen. Seems fine from what I can see without a login!
You're gonna get piled on with requests now.
...on that note, any chance you'd try the Servis Credit Union app?
Can't find that app, is it "Servus" instead?
It is indeed, whoops
I had to enable “exploit protection compatibility mode” for the app. Otherwise it just sits on the logo indefinitely. But after enabling that compatibility mode it launches fine, asked me for location permissions (which I denied), and I can get to where I enter User ID to login.
Seems fine from what I can see without a login!
Can you give RBC (royal bank of Canada) banking app a shot for me if you don't mind?
I had to enable "exploit protection compatibility mode" for the app to get it to stop crashing immediately on launch, but it doesn't complain about attestation or anything. Seems fine from what I can see without a login!
Hey thanks a lot! I appreciate that you took time out of your day to check for me :)
Welcome! Seems like a fairly low-effort way for me to help nudge folks towards GrapheneOS <3
Just use the browser
And as a follow up question to this, are there any container apps to run those apps that won't work in a way that they think they are running on stock android?
Depends on the bank. Graphene has support for seedvault backups, or you could use syncthing-fork to sync the data over. Or any one of those Foss airdrop clones
my bank app is specificially listed as working but i would def check
Nope, but you can use their web apps.
Not sure about backing up apps, never looked into it.
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