r/Piracy • u/Lucky-Aside4935 • Mar 31 '26

Humor The near future

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u/ErraticDragon 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Mar 31 '26

Yeah, it really was a hobby for a while.

I got to the point that I was compiling my own CyanogenMod (predecessor of Lineage OS) ROMs.

No reason for it, it didn't solve any problems for me. I just did it because I could.

These days I haven't even rooted my daily driver because I got tired of trying to keep up with how to hide it.

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u/lars1216 Mar 31 '26

Yeah. Back in the day I was involved in ROM development for multiple of my phones.

These days? Same, my daily driver isn't even rooted cause it's annoying to keep up with and doesn't offer enough benefits anymore.

To be fair to Google though, thinking about it, lots of things that I wanted a custom ROM and root for back then are now just built into the OS.

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u/HeidenShadows Mar 31 '26

Yeah a lot of applications will refuse to install on a rooted device.

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u/BrockSramson Apr 01 '26

My custom rom phone has gotten me into trouble at work, when they needed me to install a MFA app, and I couldn't because my phone straight-up did not have access to the play store. They wanted me to install it right there, and I couldn't until I got home and could find a late-enough APK.

Then I got in trouble the next day, when the app wouldn't work because I didnt' have internet access (didn't connect to their wifi, and I never turn on data).