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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • It’s kinda like root-ish privileges. It facilitates doing things that you’re not technically prohibited from accessing, but there simply is no interface for. It uses administrative console commands (administrative in the management sense, not like administrator=root sense) to execute changes that don’t have any pathway built-in for the end-user.

    Personally, nearly all my devices are rooted, but I did use Shizuku for some accessories on a few devices. It’s a bit of ado to setup; not difficult just a handful of steps. Worth it if you really need or want to do something the GUI won’t provide and you’ll likely find more uses down the line.





  • I’m using the stock Motorola ROM. I am rooted, and yes I’ve tried installing with root privs. In fact I’ve tried using several installers, including MiX, but also SAI and two others.

    I’m installing from saved APK files. I was able to use the same APK and install on a device with Android 6, as well as another with Android 10. I’m really not sure how to narrow down exactly what’s going wrong, but I know that prior to my factory reset, they all installed without any problem. Then again, I had a ton of add-ons and hacks installed. Some that I have not yet reinstalled, such as Gravity Box, and a handful of other LSposed modules and Magisk modules.



  • Chromebooks are very successful in the kinds of market where a facility needs to buy them by the thousands for staff/faculty. Schools, for example. They use all the Google platform apps Docs, workplace Gmail sheets etc. all integrated, kept on the cloud so that a device that falls in a river has not lost a shred of data. They’re able to be locked down with admin policies and bottom line is the cost per unit is very low. And you get the great feeling of the people who are in charge of all this being entirely clueless that every fucking byte of data is being harvested and analyzed, aggregated, and monetized.