Yay :/

Likely? I don’t know the details. My old S22 which did get updates no longer has the option.

They can if they want Google services.
There may have been concern from banking apps and the likes as well? Though it’s been a while since I’ve looked it up.

Edit:

The Strategy

In general, it is difficult to balance the needs of the average user who benefits from Android’s built-in security mechanisms and the user who wants more freedom. Companies like Google and application developers expect their code to run on a trustworthy device and will only provide their services on such devices.

Fairphone has made the conscious choice not to offer an option to root the device on its Google-services enabled software.

On the Fairphone 2, Jan 2016

Unlockable, hopefully. If Google doesn’t crack down further on it.

Earlier generations of the Fairphone simply had a root toggle in the settings, but they removed that.

(typing this on a fp6)

And noise pollution

I don’t think their market share/relevance would start rising if they just maintained the status quo.

Which isn’t to say this direction is great or the way to go about it, but they can’t do nothing either.

with phones that can be rooted

… for now. Samsung removed the ability to unlock the bootloader in an update.

And yes, there are other options. But Google is also cracking down on the openness of Android. I certainly can’t take the ability to root as a given.

They want this because it entrenches them yet further. More of this kind of regulations makes it more difficult for newcomers to comply with everything.

Also I’m sure they’d love to be the one to hover up all of your data.

Genocide? It feels like you’re making a few leaps of logic there.

Either way, if they were a high ranking military commander in nazi Germany, they likely didn’t get there by being nice and virtuous. To place them in another centre of power seems a little odd, at the very least.

I do not live in the US, though I appreciate the suggestion :p

Part of me wonders if those who’d stick on the Bifen version would even realise the irony of the situation. Some of them are so far gone they’ll happily flipflop along with Trump’s mood dujour, all that matters is that it’s their “team” and that they’re “winning”.

Remember all those Biden “I did that” stickers?

“Free speech absolutionist”

'cuz they can’t very well send someone over.

On a more serious note: that’s just the easiest way to go about it? I wouldn’t let my boss remote into my personal machine, but if I were to take it on a mission to the moon that’d be a bit different.

Sorry, I did not catch onto your expertly crafted joke.

Whataboutism bull crap.
Both can be true at the same time.

Where do you think the heat from that heatsink eventually goes? The only way to get “rid” of it is into the air or the water.

That’s still ~9°C, which is a lot.

I… didn’t really pay attention to that part to be honest.

I use Ecosia nearly exclusively.

I don’t like it as much as DDG; which has a somewhat better privacy focus, more widgets, and better support for “bangs”.
But the bangs I really care about are still there, it’s European and working on a European search index along with Quant, and the trees are pretty cool too.

As is it still relies on either Bing or Google for the results, but oh well. So does basically every alternative search engine, and I’d rather go through Ecosia than directly through those two.

ftfy