Alright thanks. Yes I have just read about “stock android” and “skinned android”, although I suppose it can also be called “default operating system”. Even “stock android” seems to have more than one meaning- on one hand it can mean AOSP before putting Google and manufacturing company stuff on it, and on the other hand it can mean what you pointed out, as in “flash stock android before installing a custom ROM”. Lots of new terminology and the custom ROMs game has been around so long there is tons of old and outdated methods and information. Now reading about A/B partitioning… so much left to learn!

Take the L and keep going.

This is solid advice.

I still don’t get it though, and I’m sure there’s a lot of terminology I don’t know yet about custom ROMs so maybe that’s where the misunderstanding lies. Are you telling me that LineageOS is the same operating system as the Android I already have on my phone? No, right?

I feel like this is like saying “I’m going to delete Ubuntu off my laptop and install Pop!_OS” and someone comes along and says “akshully POP!_OS is Ubuntu!” or saying they’re both Debian or something.

lol thanks

An astute observation, franzbroetchen. The OS in LineageOS literally stands for Operating System, which ima change. On my phone. From Android to LineageOS.

You’ve gotta look at the context of the words sometimes, comrade. I am not looking to change my Android phone into an Apple phone lol

See those words are all unknown to me ':D

I appreciate your expertise tho

My favorite part of this post is that I asked a question before even dipping my toes into the world of custom ROMs and literally 40 seconds after I posted, JASN_DE hit me up with the equivalent of “akshully it’s GNU/Linux” XD

It’s like Stevie Wonder said, “Nerds, keep on nerdin” lol <3

Ok thanks

What happened? This is my only phone so I would rather not brick it.

I want to change the operating system on my phone from Android to LineageOS. Yes, they are both based on AOSP and you are absolutely right, I want to de-Google my mobile phone.

Oh, is this an akshully? Man you are cool and smart!

Very cool, thanks!

Thanks! This is just what I was looking for.

This is like 2 posts up from this post on my feed:

Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA

Israel… aren’t those the guys that put bombs in the pagers?

It’s crazy that suicide among youth has gone up in the past 20 years. Whatever they’re doing to “protect the children” they need to stop.

Ok thanks, I’ll check it out.

Thanks. Extensions like CanvasBlocker probably mess with the JS, could that be what’s making me get blocked?

Yes! This works, thanks!

Nearly all the media I consume is text based and works without JS.

Yea, well, I bet you still jerk off manually

Does FreeTube work for you? It gives me “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” for every single video. It might work without VPN but I’m not interested enough to try.

It sounds like you’re over-doing something like JS blocking. You have to find a balance.

Wisely put and I suspect you’re right, but if it’s really just about using a VPN I feel like, “Well why do you want to know my IP address so bad?”. I did do the JS blocking trick for a totally unusable web experience but now I allow JS and it’s just a widely unusable web experience ¯\(ツ)/¯

Edit: doesn’t lemmy.world block people from posting through a VPN?