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> android 11

oh lol. i really should do the penance to update lineage on that thing.

it stopped auto updating because i'm supposed to upgrade the firmware and that requires doing some fuck-around with heimdal
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@icedquinn

heimdal
Idk why samsung just straight up doesn’t include fastboot in their firmware it’s so much less fucky

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@icedquinn@blob.cat
I have a phone from 2019 that's still fast as fuck and flashing lineage OS on it was pretty easy, so I'm not switching anytime soon, still gets updated unlike the stock rom. I just replaced the battery a year ago.

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sd855plus and 12gb ram which is pretty overkill but I got this thing on a discount for 400~ bucks and I'm still using it after 5 years so not bad

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@dushman first thing i did with my s6 was check it was supported before buying it and nuked it day one.

same with the lenovo m9.

ain't got time for fuckin bullshit, AOSP* or death

* lineage is close enough
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@icedquinn@blob.cat
smartphones just keep getting worse fo real
doing shit like this used to be generally less of a pain

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@dushman i would like to do something about it, but anything involving hardware is beyond me cat_sad
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@icedquinn@blob.cat
I can help you with that issue you talked about in the original post btw just hmu on xmpp

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@dushman true ablobcatnod
my old phone from 2016 was less of a pain in the ass
also android is a shitty "operating system" in general
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@getimiskon @dushman it used to be so neat.

google really sucks shit
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@icedquinn yeah, you just flashed a custom recovery image, then you flashed a zip file with your rom of choice and you flashed whatever stuff you wanted on top.
Now you have to deal with weird partitioning scheme for the system images in order to get stuff like magisk to work. By the way, google killed magisk, fuck them. neocat_middlefinger_double
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@dushman they have instructions on the site. it just requires me to go backup everything, cause i have to check / possibly update lineage recovery, and then heimdal shit, and then wipe the partitions and install 23, and restore or something. its a huge pain in the tits which is why i just haven't done
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@icedquinn@blob.cat
Ah I got you. Idk if lineage recovery has a data backup function but you can use TWRP for that.

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@dushman oh i guess i wasn't clear. i mean hardware *business*.

i can follow the instructions on flashing software. usually.
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@getimiskon @icedquinn

By the way, google killed magisk, fuck them
uhh no? It didn’t

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@dushman google hired the main dev and the app went to shit
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@getimiskon @dushman I used to say Linux is like Africa; everything is shit and if someone manages to do a good job the west just snipes them.
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@icedquinn @getimiskon @dushman reminder ian murcoch was murdered by the police
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