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Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11

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Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11

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Prove me wrong anytime folks, I'm sure you can at least flail around and try, or at least mash the squeal button that you all like so much. How exactly do you unlock bootloaders from modern phones (past 2 years)? You get jailbreaks from the internet and sideload them right? Do you disassemble the binary code? Does it void your warranty? Which mobile device manufacturers offer official bootloader unlocks today? There'…

My Samsung A40 from 2019 has an unlock bootloader option in the Developer Options. I didn't check what it does neither I googled it but it's promising.

The presence of the "Allow OEM bootloader unlock" is NOT an indication that the bootloader is unlockable, sadly.

Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11

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If a user initiated screenshot was distinguishable from an API initiated one, then you could argue third party screenshotting apps aren't first class citizens on the platform

Okay, here’s a question: why should third party screenshooting apps exist? What benefits do they offer over the stock functionality?

Accessibility utils like screen readers do OCR and read aloud the content for blind people.

Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11

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>make banking apps not work anymore If you live in a country where you have to use your phone for banking and can't use the web then you need to talk to your politicians. That seems like a pretty extreme violation of your freedom. As much as I dislike the US at least we don't have that.

I live in the UK and have used 5 banking apps so far (not all of them at the same time): - Barclays (App won't work with LineageOS, website is horrible). - Monzo (App only, no website, works with LineageOS). - Revolut (App only, no website, works with LineageOS). - TransferWise (Web and App, both work well, but never tried it on LineageOS). - ING Home Bank (App won't work with LineageOS, website is manageable, but st…

Both Monzo and Revolut have website access.

Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11

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You can use scrcpy ( https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy ) to bypass the policy if you really need to have a screenshot. All you need is to have a Linux laptop at hand, debug mode enabled, and a USB cable plugged in. Super simple stuff right? (this is satire!) Now, I'm as frustrated as anybody else here that I'm forbidden to use whatever feature I want from MY phone, for which I paid, with MY MOENY (and nobody else'…

Is there any situation on iOS where a screenshot cannot be taken? (serious question)

Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11

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At least Apple has not done anything as user-hostile as this, yet. On iOS the balance of control is still in the user's favor, not the apps', and increasing with every release (like discrete permissions, limited location sharing, being able to choose which photos each app can see).

The balance of control is in the users favour on iOS even though it doesn't allow such basic affordances as sideloading apps?

It's not a basic affordance if millions of people don't give a fuck about it.

Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11

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Linux phones!!! There’s still a lot of dev work to be done but this is exactly why I’m on board with the pinephone. not a daily driver yet, but if you’re a programmer looking for something to contribute to, go check it out

There’s still a lot of dev work to be done An incomplete choice is not a choice. He wants to cross a bridge without paying a toll. Telling him that he can take a rickety bridge, an unsupported bridge, build his own bridge, or wait for a new bridge to be finished doesn't get him to the other side.

That's not helpful. Whereas the comment you are responding to is helpful (at least to some of us).

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There is a kind of half-formed philosophy out there which believes we can get back to some false utopian small-collective agri-mercantile worker paradise. It doesn't exist, and never did. Learn how to adapt and make the most of the systems that exist now. I dare to say, if you even actually achieved those fantastical scenarios, the damper on economic and population prosperity would be such that you might not have bee…

> Learn how to adapt and make the most of the systems that exist now. if this were the attitude, the free software that android is built on wouldn't have existed in the first place...

They’re mutually exclusive; I’m sure GP meant it in a pragmatic sense.
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