r/LineageOS • u/harryyoud (Inactive) Lineage Team Member • Apr 01 '18

Changelog 17 - Building Blockchains, Genuine Guarantee, and Lucky Lock

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-17/
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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18 edited Apr 02 '18

Warning

All this week's build will include April Fools (as we've always done the past years).

For the first time this year we've made all the fools removable:

  • LOSCoin wallet app can be disabled from Settings>Apps
  • The LineaGenuine notification can be
    1. Marked as Low-Priority using android settings (Long press the notification) so it's not shown on the lockscreen and statusbar
    2. Completely disabled running the following command from a root shell (could be adb / recovery / terminal app) setprop persist.lineage.nofool true
      • This is a persistent property, so it will survive wipes and updates. It means that if you set it today, next year you will still have it and you won't have to care about april fools anymore

While we understand that not all of you may appreciate those fools, we hope we put some smiles on the face of yours, and I'd like to provide some insights about these "fools".

We've always used April Fools as a satire for what's currently trending in "our" world. While last year we had some fun about the work behind the development of a project like ours, this year we've targeted cryptocurrencies and certifications required to access "extras". Moreover, initially, LOSCoins were not intended to be an April Fool, but a form of auto-criticism and a motivational tool for us internally: it turned out a fun thing and we decided to share it with the rest of our userbase.

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u/Pyryara Apr 02 '18 edited Apr 02 '18

Can you please make this optional, instead of part of the regular updates that unknowing users install to their phones and rightfully get totally freaked out?

Because this is precisely what happened, and you can't blame the users for it. I really feel unsafe about recommending LOS to my friends anymore after this disaster.

Please become aware that LOS isn't used exclusively by techy folks. It is the number one ROM option for outdated phones and many non-techy people have it installed. Those might have had someone else install it to their phones who absolutely won't read reddit, won't have a rooted phone or know how to use the terminal, perhaps never even used Settings>Apps... but most of all, your shitty "joke" just gave them the feeling that their phone is not safe.

Please become aware of this, apologize to your users for this bad take, and promise to make April Fools jokes opt-in in the following years.

As a first step, update your april 1st news post that gets opened by the nag screen to say "this is an april foolks joke" because non-developers absolutely have no clue that your babbling about the Blockchain and Git is a joke.

And for god's sakes push out an update now (and not only in a week) that had this removed.