fensgrim

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by fensgrim 6mo ago
good luck finding a phone with custom ROM support, when there will be no phones with bootloader unlock available :(
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by fensgrim 1y ago
IMO it comes down to marketing: can't have the kayfabe of selling something that is "not a computer"/"new kind of computer" and have it act like a "computer" too
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by fensgrim 1y ago
Looks like Chemical Garden trilogy by Lauren DeStefano might be a fit - but as it seems to be a cross between typical young adult fiction of 2010's and poorly made romance novel, I do hope there's something less.. pulpy.. with the
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by fensgrim 1y ago
Also, isn't it really stupid to treat the wind the same way we do with rivers or with electrical current (which is actually flowing the opposite way to electrons, so not like the river/wind at all)? E.g. country A is saying that
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by fensgrim 2y ago
There's Incredibuild (paid), might be worth investigating if it fits your scenario (I have serious doubts it'll work with anything other than basic AOSP due to how lineage's ninja behaves during its early build phase of regen
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by fensgrim 2y ago
Looks like its easy to wipe and flash the bios chip by CH341A plus a couple diodes to get voltage down to 1.8V, likely without desoldering it too; yet finding the bios image seems to be somewhat impossible due to byte rot (adding extra step
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by fensgrim 2y ago
> just like Arch Linux and even Arch (Artix) can't be stripped of elogind and such
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by fensgrim 2y ago
Neither, it's unethical and there's no possibility of doing that in legal way. However I do write 1-2 hour PoCs on my spare time and my own equipment, using only publicly available stuff - they sometimes come handy at some point l
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by fensgrim 2y ago
> how a developer manages assets like source code IMO there are some workloads, where it is beneficial for a developer to have access to a local repository with at least some snippets based on previous projects. Having a leftover PoC of
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by fensgrim 2y ago
> special locally installed apps in enterprise ChromeOS environments There was https://developer.chrome.com/docs/apps/overview though, so this seems to be a kind of planned feature creep after deprecating forme
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by fensgrim 2y ago
And they will provide it as required per law. Note that the law does not require them to provide that in a form that would be usable for anything practical without doing moderate to heavy amount of reverse engineering (e.g. here's the
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by fensgrim 2y ago
Ooh substances - scary stuff. Must be very dangerous to allow selling a thing that could be made with any CNC router out of scrap, so let's also ban CNC routers.. eventually, let's ban hands as they can be used to do stuff. /
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by fensgrim 2y ago
Another reason is that giving users the option to root and unlock is possible only after ditching whatever agremeent is in place with Google. So, no Play support for this vendor at all means no sales to normal markets. Going deeper in consp
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by fensgrim 2y ago
Last decade's definition of "power user" is "being able to type on physical keyboard and have more than 1 window open at a time", and Android caters to that; it would not even remotely be decent, though it'll l
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by fensgrim 2y ago
So far, we can't even get Samsung to have their FOSS kernel stuff published in a buildable and usable form - its basically impossible to build their recent kernels with their recent toolchains without finding out that some obscure con
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by fensgrim 2y ago
There's likely a statement in Play Services ToS for vendors to do all things possible to prevent bootloader unlock/relock flow from happening - reasoning from the fact that yellow AVB state is non-existent outside Pixel devices. M
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by fensgrim 2y ago
I'd go for a "real device cloud", AWS/testgrid/browserstack/whatever. However depending on your users' demographics, it might be a good idea to take a look at https://dontkillmyapp.com/ an
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by fensgrim 2y ago
It is possible to have a project set up with a manifest which contains only a single activity with android.app.NativeActivity pointing to a .so, and zero lines of java/kotlin/flutter/whatever else - though your app initializa
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by fensgrim 3y ago
@dang I think this one was supposed to be https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1ax1dn7/lost_...
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by fensgrim 3y ago
On topic of this specific kind of vampire, see also: Blindsight, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
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by fensgrim 3y ago
After OPPO/OnePlus merger, things went downhill really fast. IIRC, OPPO did something that ended up alienating some parts of Lineage/ROM developer community in general and the work on supporting newer devices was postponed until c
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by fensgrim 3y ago
> Xiaomi mtkclient [0] would let you skip the whole 7/14 days thing (also: unrestricted partition dumping/flashing). Though there are chances of ending up with soft/hard brick (normally possible to revert back to working s
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by fensgrim 3y ago
Unless your phone has fastboot already unlocked, yes it will result in you losing all the stuff at least once (there's an unavoidable wipe on bootloader unlock/relock). In that case, if your changes are restricted to surfaceflinge
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by fensgrim 3y ago
That specific blindness story was debunked later on (~month past initial report); something about having only a single unnamed source touting that story to multiple newspapers. As a russian rave goer: my deepest thanks to aliexpress providi
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by fensgrim 3y ago
> provide support when the customer has trouble understanding how to connect to a device on their local network. Is it possible to order current revision of TinyPilot for someone in a remote location and connect to it on arrival through
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by fensgrim 3y ago
I had plans to do such project for exactly same reasons since, like, 2011.. Wanted to have pulseaudio/alsa dmix handling multiple streams/mixing them out with a help of dedicated hardware BT/DAC-ADC-BT path, with a goal to ha
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by fensgrim 3y ago
my 2¢: if external storage is not an option for some reason, dropping ext4 in favor for F2FS will do a lot of good for sparing your sdcard from early death (due to superblock updates happening every so often), if not for performance due to
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by fensgrim 3y ago
> The more layers the attacker has to break and the harder each layer is, the better. No its not, when it comes to end-user app performance, experience or privacy. Sure, by adding security we can have another reason to let developers end
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by fensgrim 3y ago
With GrapheneOS targeting whatever Pixel as their only primary device (not going to go into whole GSI/DSU thing), there's a "lucky" coincidence of TWRP for all Pixel devices I had (3 to 7a) being broken (keymaster, userd
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by fensgrim 3y ago
my 2¢: Russian could be assumed as a minority language for all* of ex-USSR countries, so OP missed Armenia/Georgia/Moldova. Also, it would be interesting to see partial overlap cases (e.g. Ukrainian-Belarussian, Russian-Serbian) w

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