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@RantSomeWhere It certainly is! I'll still have to replace the battery (seems like the original had better days) but yeah, so far I'm very impressed. I really like its fingerprint unlock, snappiness and color accuracy. Former flagship phone indeed!! And of course the ability to build all kinds of systems for it since everything's open source 🤤
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@Haxk20 Sounds like a cool project :D and yeah I'll ping you whenever something comes up. Is there any place outside of comments on devRant posts where I can contact you?
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@Haxk20 aha, cool! I don't use it very often so replies on my end can often be delayed, but you can find me at https://t.me/r00t_96 :)
Otherwise feel free to send an email to anywhere at nixmagic.com. My username here would be preferred as a prefix, as that's used for replies on my end and private communications. Everything else is usually just newsletters from sign-up forms and other junk. I tend to respond faster on mail though. -
@condor Hey I've had two of these phones and both of the batteries bricked within 18 months :O
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@mszaf hmm, I see.. have you had any luck with replacements from China (AliExpress)? I'd like to replace it at some point but I'm kinda reluctant to do so, since I've seen elsewhere that the battery performance of the replacement can be quite the gamble.
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@Condor I saw the same gamble prospect and opted for a new phone instead of throwing money at it without a guarantee. Once Google told me they wouldn't rma it even though it was in warranty range and it was supposed to be covered I moved away from Google phones :S
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@mszaf Ah, I see. Guess I'll have to try my luck with some AliExpress sellers then.. luckily I'm a platinum member, so as long as I can prove that it doesn't have the specified charge with e.g. my lab bench power supply, I should be good. And also those AliExpress sellers for some reason often go as far as begging their customers to not open disputes.. so there's that. Perhaps I could even just ask a refund directly from the seller whenever something goes awry.
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@Condor what do you mean open-source and what kind of sistems?
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@Condor that's the best part I love from aliexpress. I got a free projector out of it.
Got stolen in customs, store gave me another sended as gift and a few months latter got my money back from costums because I was sending emails every 2 days.
Also resolved 3 packages of packs (5 pieces, 3 pieces) and only recieved one. Only problem is that I don't use PayPal to get the refunds (I don't use it since my account got hacked every day for a month). I'm requesting a resend, hope I'm lucky -
@GyroGearloose Android is running Linux under the hood. As for systems, I'm thinking about AOSP, Paranoid Android, AOKP and whatnot. Perhaps I'll even dualboot with Nethunter.
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@Condor Well, that's 4 or 5 stuff for me to research. Thanks
I have two good phones for servers, would be much better to use Linux stuff, a lamp or other kind of servers... -
@GyroGearloose phones aren't really suitable for servers, except maybe for microservers at home. Generally I like to tell people to use their old phones for their touchscreens, they make smooth interaction with things like IoT devices (esp8266, RPi, ...) possible and can just be mounted somewhere if so desired.
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@Condor Had that idea too... But I really like that I can have a physical server for me to test my stuff...
Fortunately for me, I didn't pay for a VPS when I had my break down in January, Or I would still be paying it without much use. So, cell phones are practical...
Must test to install termus in there, see If I can download apache2... -
@GyroGearloose again, phones are no good for that. They're low performance, nonstandard, and running services on it causes all sorts of issues. I'd suggest using an old desktop.. here I'm using a Lenovo Thinkstation S10 that a fellow sysadmin gifted to me as my Proxmox host.
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Problem: Energy cost.
And as I live with my parents now my dad would be mad...
It's food for my projects and static pages, but I'm not hosting a public website here, or else there will go all my upload bandwidth, plus easy hacks.
have one of my projects stuck for months there, till I can focus on programming again
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@GyroGearloose how about a Raspberry Pi on solar, coupled with some lithium cell? Make it waterproof and you can even put it outside. The possibilities are endless.. couple it with a SIM module and you could drop it anywhere to "interact with the environment". If you've ever seen that movie Algorithm, you'll know what I mean 😛
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@Condor talking about the raspberry pi, do you know banana pie?because it costs one third then raspberry I'm thinking on buying a couple when I balance my account.
But yes I'm thinking on a pi, but only until I can put Linux on a cellphone.
Only because they are free. I already have one with the same hardware as the pi and two better, that's why I still use phones...
I would run a vm and Linux on top of Android but the security is the same (bad), upload is the same (bad), I can only use them to test and give sites and calculators to my friends.
Like, the site I pointed has tables for CNC tools. 90% of my former colleagues only know the speeds for one kind of steel (and fucked 100€ to 500€ tools like crazy.
I had a hss drill drilling for 4 hours in hard steel without changing or sharpening. Even the older ones said it was impossible. (Only because I gave the correct rotation).
And I'll be making the same for hobbiest when I get the right tables :-D with an app and ads ofcourse
Gahaa!!! Finally back home, after 7 fucking hours of sitting in busses and trains!
BUT I GOT MY NEXUS 6P!! Yoo-hoo!!! :D
And I've got a nice story about it.
So when I bought it, the guy selling it to me was a nontechnical type (I think?) whose wife was the previous owner. So I thought to myself, cool a nontechnical user used it.. probably no hardware mods or anything to worry about. Apparently they even factory reset it for me :)
Now, when I left to go back home, I of course immediately booted up the thing and did the whole doodad of logging into it, setting up the device etc.
Then it struck me. When I booted up the device and wanted to log in, there was a lock from Google that required me to first authenticate as either a previous account of the device, or their unlock pattern. So I figured, eh fuck it, I'll just flash some AOSP without GApps or send the owner an email asking what the previous pattern is.
But I still had to wait 30 minutes at the bus stop so I thought to myself.. previous owner was a nontechnical woman.. maybe I could crack it. No way to know if I don't try. So I started putting in random unlock patterns.
3 attempts later - I shit you not! - pattern accepted.
Do you want to add this account?
Oh boy Google, of course I do! Thanks for letting me in pal!
3 fucking attempts. That's all it took to crack the unlock pattern of an unknown person. 😎
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