That’s just Samsung’s version of “recovery mode”. Pretty much every Android device operates this way.

Oh for sure, 100% on all points. I’m actually waiting for the RePS2 PSU to come back in stock for my own fat PS2.

unless you’re a die hard that insists the hardware be 100% original.

Ugh. I cannot stand purists. I will happily upgrade or modify things to keep the original “look”, but with modern functionality.

Daniel’s paranoia is arguably the driving force behind Graphene’s security.

That’s a neat little tool! I’ve been looking for something like this

Ratchet & Clank

My man

(currently re-playing Up Your Arsenal on PS2)

because, realistically, who plays games only unmodded? Children? Console gamers?

A lot of people…

laughs in root

Moving to Calyx once they restart development.

Doubt it. The outcome of these kinds of things is usually determined by whoever has more money, and an ad company like Branch usually has more money than god.

I remember you have to install the custom bootloader like TWRP to flash the ROM and there was this thing with A and B partitions. Not sure if things change…

Custom recovery on bootloader-unlockable devices is required if you want to do everything on-device. You can still flash ROMs without a custom recovery. I don’t have a custom recovery on my P9PXL, but that’s only because there isn’t one…

Workarounds on locked devices usually install a custom recovery as part of that workaround. Last night, I installed LOS on one of my kids’ old Kindle Fire tablets. Amazon makes it really difficult, there’s a whole series of scripts and commands just to get TWRP installed. But once that’s done, you can load a ROM and flash it on-device.

The question has already been answered. No point in me saying the same thing as others, but this question will always be asked regardless, so I pointed out the obvious thing people don’t like to accept: If you’re asking random internet strangers, then you’re not important enough to need this kind of security.

There’s pretty much no reason for the average Joe to worry about this kind of thing. If that was the case, they would already be acutely aware of the security risks imposed by unlocking the bootloader and installing a custom ROM. The biggest threat to mobile devices is physical access - but if someone has physical access to your device, all bets are off anyway.

Instead you are actibg pretentious and unhelpful.

I know it sounds rude, but there really isn’t any other way to explain this.

If you have to ask, then you aren’t important enough to actually be worrying about this kind of thing.

If you were that important, then you would already know the answer to your question.

I…was never using Graphene?

Currently running stock 15 (rooted). 15-based Calyx is my next OS upgrade. Or possibly e/OS (when they get to it).

now with the Pixel device-specific code being closed sourced

I have yet to update my Pixel to Android 16 specifically because of this.

Calyx is going to be my next update. I say that a lot, but I’ve been methodically going through all of my apps and making sure everything I use will work on a de-googled ROM. It takes time.

Graphene OS devs tend to sniff their own farts and claim it’s roses.

Unless you have a legitimate need for that kind of locked down security, I wouldn’t worry about any of what they have to say.

Games run faster with LMDE6 than they did with Windows 10 on my 5800X3D/7900XTX PC.

Yeah, the one with a bit driver on the back

¿Por qué no los dos?

You can see the corner of it poking out of my pocket if you zoom in

Waze has been owned by Google longer than it’s existed on its own, for several years now.

These 6.5" and 7" phones don’t fit in pants pockets. Yet I don’t see any guys out there wearing fanny packs or carrying purses around with them like women. Where do they stick them? Are they all sticking their phones up their butts?

Let’s play “where’s the Pixel 9 Pro XL in a case with a magsafe wallet attached”:

Size was never the point of the Pixel A-series. The point was “less features for less money”. Sometimes it happened to come in a smaller device.

Not just manufacturers, my friend. People use their phones for media, which is always better on a bigger screen.

First and foremost: nobody buys them. Manufacturers would build smaller versions of their flagships, but many would be severely limited or use lower-spec parts compared to said flagships. Or, the models that were high-spec like their larger siblings would cost almost as much, and so the average person will just get the bigger one because to most people, bigger = better.

It may not make sense to those of us more familiar with tech, but that’s not the point.

Also - nobody has heard of Sharp Aquos phones. I’ve got one of their TVs (from 2007 lol), but even I didn’t know they made phones until this post.

Same. I saw it for what it was right off the bat. No thanks.

I used Thunderbird for a while, but for some reason it would dig up years-old emails and present them as new and unread. Despite the fact that I never leave anything “unread”.

I turned those off the moment they appeared in my gmail account. Don’t understand why others still use them.

Well, no. It’s a full-blown Debian VM running on your portable Linux-based device, with its own virtual network adapter that accesses the internet via NAT through your phone’s physical network adapter. Just like a VM on a normal server.

The terminal program used to access said VM happens to be a web app. Very much like Spice, NoMachine, and others. You can even SSH into it from Termux if you forward the port.

You’re not wrong, and I agree in that it feels like W10 is where MS finally got it right.

However, hindsight is 20/20, and those sentiments were definitely not felt in the first few years after W10 was released. Once all the big issues were worked out and people figured out how to remove the bloat/spyware shit though, it was a solid OS. I still run it on my gaming PC (for now - tested some crucial programs last night on my laptop running LMDE6, great success)

What did W11 add that we didn’t have before? A TPM requirement? Ads? AI slop/shovelware/spyware?

W11 right now is essentially a shitty skin on top of W10, with all that extra shit. The kernel is still version 10.x.whatever FFS 😅. But SHINY INTERFACE and ONEDRIVE

These are the people that companies like Apple pander to, with the whole “it just works” schtick.

Microsoft: you had a good thing with Windows <previous version>, and you pissed it all away when you put out the crap that is Windows <new version>.

Ftfy.

That said, there is something to be said for how popular Windows is, and the modifications and QoL improvements offered by 3rd party devs.

How is the Remarkable thing for those of us with… questionable handwriting?

I have objectively terrible handwriting, and I find taking written notes is far slower than just typing it out in OneNote/Joplin/what have you.

You’re not wrong.

Just to be clear: Android is NOT becoming closed source! Google remains committed to releasing Android source code (during monthly/quarterly releases, etc.) , BUT you won’t be able to scour the AOSP Gerrit for source code changes like you could before.

https://x.com/MishaalRahman/status/1904905109022048280

What satellite service does this go through, I wonder?

Edit: duh, it’s right there 🤦‍♂️

Yeah, Pebble watches have a pretty loyal fanbase (including myself), and the r/pebble subreddit has been active for years despite the fact that they’ve been defunct for almost a decade. Google open-sourced the OS in January, Eric made announcements about creating a new company to make new PebbleOS-based watches, then yesterday his website (link in this post) started a countdown.

Now here we are.

I’m going to wait and see how these new watches fare in terms of reliability. I wasn’t a fan of the Pebble 2 and it’s issues, but that’s supposedly been resolved. These new units use essentially the same design, but with better materials and reinforcements.

This isn’t Pebble, Google owns that. This is Eric’s new company, Core Devices, the spiritual successor to Pebble.

laughs in dummy package

BeamNG.Drive with the BeamMP multiplayer mod. It’s great fun rock crawling in Johnson Valley with other players, trying to wreck as little as possible… Then you always get that one idiot who yolos their truck into everyone else’s after a half-hearted attempt at speedrunning the trail.

…shit, I think you’re right, it might be the Downloads folder. Sorry! I’ll check mine next time I boot it up.