Lynnesbian 
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
literally all i had to do with my old phone, the one i'm currently using, is download lineageOS and TWRP (along with gapps and magisk and all that), flash TWRP, install lineage, and reboot
meanwhile with a laptop it's like
- put linux on USB
- boot USB
- install linux
i hate phones and i especially hate samsung phones
at least it's not an iphone
i'd probably hate computers a lot less if i didn't know so much about them
the path to customisation on android is a long maze with broken glass floors and bouncers positioned randomly throughout who will kick you back to the start if you forget to say the right phrase
the path to customisation on iOS doesn't exist
meanwhile, puri.sm is promising a linux based phone that actually lets you install other distros and shit, and has open source hardware. it's set to come out in april, but it's gonna be pretty expensive, and i doubt you'll be able to get it on a plan
Pain Hamburger@lynnesbian
Not April anymore. Q3 now.
Also they did a blog post about "Converging on convergence" that has me a little shook. Like you haven't made a phone yet and you claim to be getting close to joining the two ecosystems on the software side.