monk

Both have one one decent option, and it’s Sunshine for both.

Not anymore?

https://github.com/styluslabs/Write

I wrote https://github.com/t184256/yousable for myself

iodine

… again

I already have the system package manager. Everything else that isn’t it doesn’t manage my system and is doomed to suck.

musl is a libc

Same as decades before: Ubuntu.

A thousand times less than the conspirologists suggest.

And what’s stopping you? Install new LineageOS on an unblocked Samsung, check one checkbox xin developer settings and here it is. Without the GPU, of course.

2009. 2004 wasn’t even 770 times.

Been there, it ended fine. Cheer up.

Get rid of the dGPU power comsumption at all costs, as it’s underpowered for anything serious.

Enable Intel AMT so that you get hardware level remote control, including power control.

Afet that it’s a now-weak power-hungry CPU with weak cooling, but a decent amount of RAM, so, IDK, a buildserver or a VM host for scenarios when something needs to happen in the background, but latency doesn’t matter.

Oh. Then lemme just wish you that whatever is that thing you’re having over there never heats up to a degree to that’d make you reconsider what “can’t travel” means. And yeah, phones, those you can just import.

How many years of your salary does an airplane ticket cost? How many countries even ask you for a visa? Guess what, you absolutely can.

Than asking for a password for a password? Yes. Than yesterday? Hardly.

Hold your horses. You want someone to build a service where you’d register, with a new separate set of credentials, so that you’d synchronize your email password between devices?

Well, I have to admit that this idea of having a password synchronize yourself another password becomes much more practical if you tweak it just a little bit and manage all your passwords with just one. In fact, Mozilla has one. It’s called Firefox Sync. I’d still recommend to use a real password manager like pass and either git or syncthing for synchronizing the underlying data.

I hope that’s a sound of you GTFOing out of the USA to pretty much anywhere else, where Samsungs have and always had unlocked bootloaders. =)

The moment you replace it. You get to keep the awesome hardware.

Oh yes, Samsung’s software always needs replacing, but it’s easier to install better software on a Samsung than wait for better hardware in a Pixel. Where’s the Pixel with a stylus? That’s a 2011 Samsung feature. 4K video output? My 2019 Samsung can drive 4K. Meanwhile Pixel owners are squealing they got any video output last year, another feature coming 13 years late. And of course Auracast will make Samsung’s dual Bluetooth output obsolete quicker than Pixel engineers would recognize that people sometimes listen to things together.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to daily-drive a Pixel. GrapheneOS sounds nice and the KVM is something I’d love to play with. But for decades I’ve watched Pixels hardware to improve while Samsung lost features, hoping Pixels will catch up. If it wasn’t for Folds, they’d be only another decade away from hardware feature parity with 2011 Samsungs, but now there are Folds and here we go again.