Oh wow, then you've managed to break it more than I have ever broken a device. Oopse
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Not that I'm aware of, no. But I don't have much reason to use that, so I haven't really looked for something like that either.
Simplex is the better choice imo.
Financial institution security is quite frankly a freaking joke. My bank only has the options for 11 character passwords at maximum. It's like oh come on that is way too easy these days
The funny thing is when I saw the article title, that's the first thing that came to my mind as well.
I like the reference to the ship of Thysius.
Will it boot into fast boot when starting up with like pressing the volume up or volume down key at boot? Because as long as you can get into fast boot, you can fix it.
As somebody who's fucked up with custom ROMs several times and made bricks out of my phone, they are soft bricks and can be fixed. Sometimes it's not easy, but it can be fixed.
Not at the moment. No. I used to have one of those Netgate firewalls using pfsense i could do vpn on but i really didnt see the point. By using ControlD as my DNS i block known malware, ads, and trackers for free. Obviously that does not protect from everything, but it goes a long way towards helping.
I use ControlD on my router and mobile devices
Why exactly am I not surprised? When you don't have open source stuff, you don't own your shit. And this is a perfect example of it.