The critical thing is having unlock and recovery for the model. Without that, it can’t generally be reflashed.
The critical thing is having unlock and recovery for the model. Without that, it can’t generally be reflashed.
TV pixels were also generally not square. And if the device was a TV and not an actual video monitor (both were used with home computers), it was a little slow and blurry. And overscan existed. There’s a lot of things that will be a bit different when you look at an emulated display.
In practice? Constantly changing hardware with soc vendors that publish nothing and device manufacturers that (have to) keep pushing out new models on a short cycle. Plus many of them have extra shenanigans to keep the bootloader locked so you can’t install a recovery (presuming you had a working one) so you could replace the os. There are some rare exceptions, but the hardware is rare and tedious and not many people can or will work on installable Linux on them.
If you just want to run some Linux userland, there’s ways to do that on top of android, though. Want to get to a Linux like system or run a program? Might be as close as installing a terminal or running adb shell.
I don’t think I’ve found amazing things recently. Things worth using and things better than the alternative and things that are promising to maybe one day be great, yes.
But I’ll single out one little thing: dust. https://github.com/bootandy/dust
Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space without requiring sort or head. Dust will print a maximum of one ‘Did not have permissions message’.
Dust will list a slightly-less-than-the-terminal-height number of the biggest subdirectories or files and will smartly recurse down the tree to find the larger ones. There is no need for a ‘-d’ flag or a ‘-h’ flag. The largest subdirectories will be colored.
It’s like a killer combination of du and sort oneliners that actually shows me what I want to know: What’s the big stuff in this dir.
Depends on the machine and… maybe other things. I used to think that, too, but on my current machines I can step backwards just fine.
It’s probably a much more intensive operation requiring processing a lot of the file from before and throwing away current buffers or something.
Names actually have a really high collision rate, so for collecting information they’re not good. You don’t want all the different John Smiths’ data clumped together. They’re useful once you start sending personalized stuff in though.
Why did the reuse old master tapes?
Money. Or the perception that there isn’t money to be gained from the replication and maintenance of the archives.
It’s the stupid name.
Definitely not zero moderation. That wouldn’t last long these days.
If be interested. I’ve only used desktop VLC and only as a backup player since it tends to have its own code for most things instead of using shared components that sometimes it can do things other players fail at. That could be useful on Android as well and if the player’s also good, no who knows.
E waste. But you’re right. That was another neat thing about Koss.
That’s what good link aggregators are for.
Then you can give it to someone else to read or sell it and even more people can read it.
Hey, $20 is $20. Heroin isn’t cheap either.
I don’t think anybody wanted that unity for headphones.
Want new plugs? Get some earplugs, optionally cut in half or trim to size, punch a hole and fit them on.
Portapros were pretty great, too. And cheap.
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