typically portraits are taken with 50mm lenses

While photographers use a variety of focal lengths for portraits, the focal length that’s most associated with portrait photography is 85mm. This article from lens review site Imaging Resource illustrates the point; most of the lenses are 85mm or equivalent (e.g. 42.5mm on m43 with a crop factor of 2 making the field of view equivalent to 85mm).

There was a recent related discussion on Hacker News and the top comment discusses why this sort of solution is not likely to be the best fit for smaller organizations. In short, doing it well requires time and effort from someone technically sophisticated, who must do more than the bare minimum for good results, as you just learned.

Even then, it’s likely to be less reliable than solutions hosted by big corporations and when there’s a problem, it’s your problem. I don’t want to discourage you, but understand what you’re committing to and make sure you have adequate buy-in in your organization.

Since 2014, but Android had already been out for six years at that point.

We had several years of Android that mostly wasn’t. Now it’s hard work to get Android that isn’t.

Apps on F-Droid are not using proprietary Google APIs and won’t be affected.

The whole tech world saw Microsoft Palladium as a nightmare scenario, but was quiet ten years later when Apple and Google did the same thing to our phones. That was a mistake.

computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong

tech CEOs: let’s add it to every product

Borrowed from here

I suspect bad faith any time a company doesn’t do it the Pixel way (dev settings and fastboot unlock).

HMD also doesn’t provide any mechanism for unlocking the bootloader

This is the part that’s inexcusable.

Needs more headphone jack.

I’m pretty satisfied with my 4a. Are there any downgrades between the two generations?

It’s one thing to place limits on a few Chinese phones that have low market share outside China (Netflix is not available inside China), but only offering low-quality streams on the world’s most popular smartphone OS would surely have a significant impact on subscription numbers. Netflix may have even signed contracts with content providers requiring them to meet certain DRM standards.

I believe the situation would be different if Google hadn’t built a remote attestation system for Android. Netflix might have had to renegotiate a contract or two, but underserving a huge fraction of the market isn’t viable long-term.

What would have happened if Google never created an attestation system for Android? Would Netflix give up such a large market?

Netflix can downgrade Chinese phones that aren’t common in the west and third-party ROMs because those represent a tiny fraction of their potential customer base. I doubt they’d be inclined to do so for all of Android.

could potentially lose certification of the entire android ecosystem

Certification by whom?

The Netflix app is older (2011) than Safetynet (2014?). Google probably didn’t need to provide remote attestation, but making non-Google Android unusable for most people is good for their bottom line.

Telegram isn’t open source, so I don’t think you’re going to find forks of it.

I stand corrected. Telegram’s client is open source (GPL) and what OP is asking for is reasonable.

The benefit to longevity from limiting battery charge even a little bit is pretty substantial. I recommend it to most people with the technical ability to do it.

exposing myself to vulnerability

Everyone’s security and convenience/feature needs are different of course. There is often a tradeoff. The way I see it, I wouldn’t give up having admin access on my PC for security, so why would I give it up on my phone?

Yes. There’s the occasional app it won’t back up and restore correctly (Signal is a big one; use its own chat backup feature), but overall it’s great.

Here are things I’m currently using root for on LineageOS:

• System-wide adblocking (hosts file with Adaway). Yes, there’s DNS-based adblocking, but sometimes that can be slow or not play nice with public wifi networks.
• Battery management. I use AccA to limit my battery capacity and charge rate to keep it from wearing out. I might not care as much if the battery was easy to replace.
• File management, as there’s an increasing amount of the filesystem blocked off without it.
• App + data backups with Neo Backup.

What killed it?