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My Pixel 6 Pro just started making a sound anytime I take a screenshot. There's no way to turn it off[0].

I don't care about the de-Googling as much but I'm considering wiping to something freer, maybe Lineage OS. How destructive is that going to be?

[0] It doesn't do it when I take a picture with the camera (mCameraSoundForced=false) and I'm in a country where that would be unnecessary anyway.

If you have a Pixel, use Graphene instead. It's incredibly easy to install and is better by every metric.

That's your reason to use something 'freer'? To avoid a screenshot sound?

I mean, you do you but that's kind a extreme.

It's maddening that I tell my phone to stay quiet and it disobeys.

All that code and settings live in a protected partition. If I have to root my phone for this at least I'd like it to be nicer to hack on.

They're talking about agency. Having control of the hardware they bought. The screenshot sound is just a convenient example.