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Originally Posted by mePy2
can you help me in understanding what root can be useful at?
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Take ownership of the device and ensure it actually becomes your property, empowering yourself to make practical use of the full potential of the device capabilities.
If the manufacturer is the only one who can decide what can be done and not be done on a given device, the buyer of the computer/phone/e-reader doesn't really own it and is not free to use it on his/her own terms.
This is at the same time a question of liberty and of technical flexibility.
Unfortunately, most people are only consumer minded and simply don't care, with all the negative consequences this includes, and that's what the manufacturers in the end cater to, effectively limiting and even prohibiting to use the inherent potential of the sold devices for everyone.
Recommended fuel for thought:
www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.en.html
We live in very strange times indeed.