[PLUG-TALK] New phone is a PITA

[Bill Barry]

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 12:18 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
>
> My old phone is a Note 3, now seven years old. It still works, but the
> connector is temperamental and the screen is cracked, so I bought a new
> Samsung Note 20 Ultra.
>
> My Note 3 was rooted, so I deleted a lot of the garbage. But my new
> Note 20 is not rooted, and I understand that doing so can be
> problematic. So far I'm putting up with a lot of junk that I don't
> like, because I can't remove a lot of it. Yesterday, for some reason
> that I don't understand, suddenly it started downloading, lasting 15
> minutes, and new icons started appearing on the screen - for Spotify,
> Linkedin, and numerous other social things.
>
> You know, I could buy a new computer with Windows on it, and within an
> hour after getting it home Windows would be history and I'd be looking
> at a nice Linux desktop. My new Note has 12GB of RAM and 128GB storage,
> so Linux should fit nicely. But I can't wipe out the Google/Samsung OS
> and install something better. Grr.

Locking the phone so you can't uninstall their crappy apps is
definitely not nice. There are still a few phones that can be
unlocked. The Pixel is one of them. I bought a Motorola X4 via Google
Fi and it can be unlocked.

Bill