hopefully tomorrow i'll actually set up my new phone

it's been such an astronomical pain in the ass... it's my mum's old phone, and it's a samsung, and you know how they are about modifying your phone!

word of advice: don't ever buy a samsung phone

i had to download a 4.3GiB stock firmware image from a site that caps downloads to 120KiB/s

why in the fuck do you have to flash the massive stock firmware file to reset knox, why is knox tripped when you try to flash non-stock firmware without enabling non-OEM ROMs, why do you have to enable non-OEM ROMs why do you have to have owned the phone for seven days (or set the clock forward one week) to enable non-OEM ROMs, why can't you disable knox, why doesn't wiping the phone from recovery reset knox, why why whyyyyyy

@lynnesbian hey lynne

I know they cap downloads to that tiny rate

but do they support range requests?

and is the rate limit per connection or per IP?

@ben the download is nearly finished and i don't wanna risk getting banned or whatever
@lynnesbian someone should throw a caching reverse proxy in front of the samsung download site so only the first person to download a file gets the awful bandwidth cap
@ben it's not the samsung download site, samsung doesn't let you download the firmware. you have to use weird shitty sites instead