Has anyone tried the Linux phones they sell on Aliexpress

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Z6-original-Unlocked-Slide-Motorola-Z6-Original-Unlocked-2-0-2-0MP-GSM-Slide-Mobile-Phone/32915351027.html?spm=2114.search0103.3.1.2215eb826yiUgl&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_2_10065_10068_10547_319_10059_10884_317_10548_10887_10696_321_322_10084_453_10083_454_10103_10618_10307_537_536_10902,searchweb201603_61,ppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=45b2b033-0bee-4f4b-813b-5db78efb341f-0&algo_pvid=45b2b033-0bee-4f4b-813b-5db78efb341f&transAbTest=ae803_4

@Martin Schuster Oh, I thought it was like the guide said, where it got reset every time you upgraded. That's okay then. Wow, so they actually did something about that, after all these years?

[citation needed]

Well why else would they do that? Literally every other piece of software, older and newer than Netscape Navigator, uses a separate file/directory for its list of root certificate authorities. Netscape pulled all sorts of shenanigans to try and screw with people. I still think CORBA is a plot by the lizard people to make web browsers impossible to understand.

@Cy wrote:

Well why else would they do that?

My guess would be that it was just easier to do it this way -- otherwise they would have had to implement a parser for cert-files, and reading PEM- or DER-encoded stuff is simply painful. There was a article by iirc jwz where he described the work environment they had to endure while coding the SSL-support (can't find it right now), which leads me to apply Hanlon's razor.

I still think CORBA is a plot by the lizard people to make web browsers impossible to understand.

Oh, this is of course true. Real humans would never come up with that :)