Best way is to not include it in the first place by using another ROM. If that’s not an option, you can always remove it via root. It may also be possible to use ADB/Shizuku to get rid of it, but Google could add checks to prevent ADB from removing it. Then again apps installed via ADB aren’t subject to verification.

I’ve been using a Vero V from the OSMC project. It runs Kodi and comes with a remote that’s simple enough for my family to use. Kodi has been around for ages and is great for both local library content as well as add-on based content. The OS is based on Debian so you could run some other services on it. The SoC has support for AV1 hardware decoding (as well as all the older codecs) and can play 4K HDR10+ content to my TV without issues. There’s also Dolby Vision support if your TV supports that. It’s probably not the cheapest option but I wanted a small form factor and good UI that my family could use without having to be tech wizards.

Finally, repository specific access tokens were added! I was missing this feature from GitHub (fine-grained access tokens) and had resorted to making service accounts that had access to a single repo. Time to clean that up :)

Sigh. I knew uv and ruff were too good to be true. Just hope the community can fork before it all goes to crap.

I am able to access the data folder which is located in Internal storage/Android/media/com.whatsapp. This is without root using the AOSP files app, not sure if that’s what you meant.

A big ol’ steaming turd

Cool project! Does it support 2FA? I’d like to use a password and then either TOTP or FIDO, like Authelia does.

Could you share the name of the company please?