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Why are people like my son's girlfriend so obsessed with jailbreaking? (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Motherof3@lemmings.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So, my son's girlfriend is really obsessed with collecting old devices and "jailbreaking" them and it seems quite popular. I've never done it before, I wonder why it's so popular?

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[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 day ago

(Assuming here you don’t know what jailbreaking means) Jailbreaking simply means doing what you want to your devices, which may mean bypassing artificial restrictions made by who made them. Not sure how popular it is with the youths, but I sure would like to meet people like those