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Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers

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Re: Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers

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Post by weq »

fletchowns wrote: post #185
iClaudiusX wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even a brand new, unlocked, $1000 Samsung Galaxy S10 comes riddled with adware and spyware, some of it unremovable: "There are apps from Flipboard and Spotify as well as a unremovable version of Facebook. McAfee Anti-virus is baked into the operating system as "security," and the Samsung Gallery app wants to share my location with Foursquare. The storage management settings, which is just a simple file-cleanup app, i…

It was bad enough with the fucking Bixby button that can't be disabled on my Samsung S8 Active. Hearing about the S10 solidifies that my next phone will absolutely not be a Samsung. Which is a shame since the hardware is otherwise great.

Bixby remapper has worked of me since i bought my S8

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Post by DoofusOfDeath »

iClaudiusX wrote: post #178
LeoPanthera wrote: post #126

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It works, too. This is partly why the iPhone was so popular, at first. It's been so long now that probably everyone has forgotten, but before the iPhone, essentially every smartphone on the market was fully loaded with trialware, crapware, and often had hardware features locked out by software so that you could pay extra to unlock them. I remember one particular phone that had four user-configurable hardware buttons,…

Even a brand new, unlocked, $1000 Samsung Galaxy S10 comes riddled with adware and spyware, some of it unremovable: "There are apps from Flipboard and Spotify as well as a unremovable version of Facebook. McAfee Anti-virus is baked into the operating system as "security," and the Samsung Gallery app wants to share my location with Foursquare. The storage management settings, which is just a simple file-cleanup app, i…

Thanks for the warning. My Galaxy Note 4 is getting long in the tooth, and I've been considering moving to a new[ish] Galaxy. Now I'm not.

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Post by saulrh »

sfifs wrote: post #212
tbrock wrote: post #199

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I don't understand why folks subject themselves to this for $1000 when other options are available. You don’t have to keep supporting Samsung by buying their phones. Get a pixel instead.

Google branded hardware has a notorious reputation for problems about 1-1.5 year down the road. This has happened with every single Google device anyone in my family has ever owned and so we've basically stopped buying Google. Very few manufacturers apart from Samsung come close to Apple in terms of sheer hardware quality and service support and Apple OS's lack of customisability, pathetic camera and lack of 3.5mm ja…

? I used a Nexus 5 up until last year. Ended up upgrading last year, not because it had issues or because lineage stopped releasing for it, but because IT at my new job refused to let six-year-old devices on the network. Meanwhile, my parents complained continuously about their three-year-old iPhones getting slower and slower. Anecdotes, yeah, but...

Re: Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers

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Post by maxerickson »

guelo wrote: post #207
tbrock wrote: post #199

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I don't understand why folks subject themselves to this for $1000 when other options are available. You don’t have to keep supporting Samsung by buying their phones. Get a pixel instead.

I got an S10 because of the headphone jack and sd card slot. I uninstalled or disabled any software I didn't need pretty easily. I find it to be a fantastic phone.

Those things are available on cheaper phones that don't come with so many ads.

(for example, the Moto G7. Of course, lots of people have Lenovo concerns)

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Post by maxerickson »

mises wrote: post #166
DEADBEEFC0FFEE wrote: post #143

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Yep. FM Radio was a common feature back in the day.

My S7 can still do it. The reason newer phones can't is because they lack an aux jack: the wire is used as an antenna. Another great reason to keep the headphone jack.

I don't know the current situation, but in the past most US carrier-sold phones have not had the antenna pin connected on the chip.

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Post by sfifs »

lozaning wrote: post #214
sfifs wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google branded hardware has a notorious reputation for problems about 1-1.5 year down the road. This has happened with every single Google device anyone in my family has ever owned and so we've basically stopped buying Google. Very few manufacturers apart from Samsung come close to Apple in terms of sheer hardware quality and service support and Apple OS's lack of customisability, pathetic camera and lack of 3.5mm ja…

It's now possible to reassign the bixby button to something else without rooting the phone.

Oh interesting. How do you do that? I don't see anything obvious in the settings area.

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Post by delfinom »

kpU8efre7r wrote: post #128
gloflo wrote: post #106

Slightly tongue in cheek to counter the anti-(Chinese/Russians) tone in recent times: Seeing how close Dell (both the company and the man) are to the US government, surely this is a backdoor by the Americans?

Is the anti-China or anti-Russia unwarranted? Dell fucked up and should be held accountable. Being in America they will more than likely face legal action of some sort over this. I would hope so anyway.

>Being in America they will more than likely face legal action of some sort over this.

Which America are talking about here? The one that let Equifax off scott free for leaking the entire countries personal financial info with security that resembles geocities?

Dell won't get punished for shit.

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Post by flukus »

gilrain wrote: post #191
sizzle wrote: post #183

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Do Google pixel phones offer an unadulterated, bloatware free Android experience?

As long as you don’t consider bundled Google apps bloatware, yes.

And as long as you don't consider google a spyware company, which they are.

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Post by delfinom »

basetop wrote: post #89
xeromal wrote: post #40

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Yeah, 99% of dell computers

Sadly. It disappoints me so much that linux hasn't been able to crack Windows dominance on desktop/laptop. I was sure that as more people became computer "literate", they'd shift to linux or bsd in droves. Boy was I wrong.

It wouldn't have stopped Dell from creating a support assistant app for Linux to preload if they cared. In fact Linux being the land of NIH and non portability between distros basically requires Dell create a manager to sort out drivers and installs for everyone.
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