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  • mvirts@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhy don't cell phones have BIOS?
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    1 month ago

    Think of installing a custom ROM on a phone like installing a custom BIOS ROM on PC, both are actually not damaging to the device if they fail but require specialized equipment to recover.

    Also, some phones and motherboards support special low level recovery modes when a rom fails to boot, but it’s usually not easy or documented.





  • I think this makes sense for many low impact scenarios, but there’s always going to be a set of services that I dont want to trust to the same provider. For me its my bank, even though passwords have plenty of flaws, and i am trusting my phone to protect tap pay tokens, i would never link my bank login to my google account so I use a memorized password.

    of course this is tinfoil hat territory because a threat to my passcodes would probably involve breaking the security systems on android.