Fair point, but there’s quite a large hurdle to rooting a phone nowadays, and I’m not optimistic that FOSS will continue to work as well on Android for the average person once Google introduces these restrictions. iPhones could be jailbroken but there never really was much open source software on those things.

That’s egregious and really will impede using open source software on Android. Guess my phone will turn into a device for tethering now, instead.

How will this be enforced?

Why would I want Android on PC?

That’s curious, I wonder why? I’ll include the official Sony page on it in the post too.

https://opendevices.ix5.org/

There is still this. SONY’s phones are expensive, unfortunately.

Can you explain why? Does your threat model involve nation state actors compromising your phone physically?

If I stare at this cold block for long enough, it disappears. It’s a superpower.

Unless your ISP won’t support DHCPv6-PD until you pay them extra… want to guess how I know this?

Yes, that’s right, so I did. I wanted to have a go to see what it was about, though, and I found that root was more important for me than the security that GOS purports to offer.

And when Google itself is one of your threat actors, literally the world’s worst solution that provides the barest modicum of protection against Google is by definition more secure.

This was what I learned.

I’ve done something similar trying to get root on Graphene OS, since I’m more far more concerned about corporations than nation-state actors. It can be done, but isn’t worth the trouble, especially since it doesn’t completely work and GOS updates may break it. Long story short, GOS wasn’t for me.

For anyone else who might be interested in trying to root GOS, take a look here: https://github.com/schnatterer/rooted-graphene I believe this to be likely the most comprehensive source for getting started.

I wonder what motivates it, are they being paid off by some other organizations?

The OP’s account is now deleted, but:

I have not forgotten and do have an enameled cast iron bathtub. It is fantastic.

Elegant!