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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I have 3 old cellphones that for the life of me, no matter how hard I tried - couldn’t install an alt android OS on it

    One device was compatible - but I couldn’t unlock the boot loader

    One device was never tested against any alt OSes

    One device was carrier locked.

    I also have one old Galaxy Tab that I spent weeks trying to flash another ROM to it - and it fails every time.

    I’m 0/4 on trying to reanimate old android hardware - it’s just too difficult and too much hoops to go through.

    At least I’m fairly capable with installing Linux on old laptops - and given that a new wave of Win11 compatible laptops is coming - I’ll get to do it more frequently soon.

    I haven’t tried to do LUKS yet, and I’m dying to get my hands on a Yubikey and learn what I can make it do.





  • Extreme sarcasm. The Free Desktop organization essentially stopped all development of their old GUI solution for Linux - named X11 Window System, and went all in on developing Wayland, the successor.

    Plus, speaking as a former DWM and suckless tools user, it is elitist, and thinks way too highly of themselves - they think their code explains itself (which it doesn’t), features are easy to add (nope), and a readable config file is bloat (it isn’t).