good luck finding a phone with custom ROM support, when there will be no phones with bootloader unlock available :(
IMO it comes down to marketing: can't have the kayfabe of selling something that is "not a computer"/"new kind of computer" and have it act like a "computer" too
Looks like Chemical Garden trilogy by Lauren DeStefano might be a fit - but as it seems to be a cross between typical young adult fiction of 2010's and poorly made romance novel, I do hope there's something less..…
Also, isn't it really stupid to treat the wind the same way we do with rivers or with electrical current (which is actually flowing the opposite way to electrons, so not like the river/wind at all)? E.g. country A is…
There's Incredibuild (paid), might be worth investigating if it fits your scenario (I have serious doubts it'll work with anything other than basic AOSP due to how lineage's ninja behaves during its early build phase of…
Looks like its easy to wipe and flash the bios chip by CH341A plus a couple diodes to get voltage down to 1.8V, likely without desoldering it too; yet finding the bios image seems to be somewhat impossible due to byte…
> just like Arch Linux and even Arch (Artix) can't be stripped of elogind and such
Neither, it's unethical and there's no possibility of doing that in legal way. However I do write 1-2 hour PoCs on my spare time and my own equipment, using only publicly available stuff - they sometimes come handy at…
> how a developer manages assets like source code IMO there are some workloads, where it is beneficial for a developer to have access to a local repository with at least some snippets based on previous projects. Having…
> special locally installed apps in enterprise ChromeOS environments There was https://developer.chrome.com/docs/apps/overview though, so this seems to be a kind of planned feature creep after deprecating former one?…
And they will provide it as required per law. Note that the law does not require them to provide that in a form that would be usable for anything practical without doing moderate to heavy amount of reverse engineering…
Ooh substances - scary stuff. Must be very dangerous to allow selling a thing that could be made with any CNC router out of scrap, so let's also ban CNC routers.. eventually, let's ban hands as they can be used to do…
Another reason is that giving users the option to root and unlock is possible only after ditching whatever agremeent is in place with Google. So, no Play support for this vendor at all means no sales to normal markets.…
Last decade's definition of "power user" is "being able to type on physical keyboard and have more than 1 window open at a time", and Android caters to that; it would not even remotely be decent, though it'll likely eat…
So far, we can't even get Samsung to have their FOSS kernel stuff published in a buildable and usable form - its basically impossible to build their recent kernels with their recent toolchains without finding out that…
There's likely a statement in Play Services ToS for vendors to do all things possible to prevent bootloader unlock/relock flow from happening - reasoning from the fact that yellow AVB state is non-existent outside Pixel…
I'd go for a "real device cloud", AWS/testgrid/browserstack/whatever. However depending on your users' demographics, it might be a good idea to take a look at https://dontkillmyapp.com/ and get few used devices from…
It is possible to have a project set up with a manifest which contains only a single activity with android.app.NativeActivity pointing to a .so, and zero lines of java/kotlin/flutter/whatever else - though your app…
@dang I think this one was supposed to be https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1ax1dn7/lost_...
On topic of this specific kind of vampire, see also: Blindsight, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
After OPPO/OnePlus merger, things went downhill really fast. IIRC, OPPO did something that ended up alienating some parts of Lineage/ROM developer community in general and the work on supporting newer devices was…
> Xiaomi mtkclient [0] would let you skip the whole 7/14 days thing (also: unrestricted partition dumping/flashing). Though there are chances of ending up with soft/hard brick (normally possible to revert back to…
Unless your phone has fastboot already unlocked, yes it will result in you losing all the stuff at least once (there's an unavoidable wipe on bootloader unlock/relock). In that case, if your changes are restricted to…
That specific blindness story was debunked later on (~month past initial report); something about having only a single unnamed source touting that story to multiple newspapers. As a russian rave goer: my deepest thanks…
> provide support when the customer has trouble understanding how to connect to a device on their local network. Is it possible to order current revision of TinyPilot for someone in a remote location and connect to it…
good luck finding a phone with custom ROM support, when there will be no phones with bootloader unlock available :(
IMO it comes down to marketing: can't have the kayfabe of selling something that is "not a computer"/"new kind of computer" and have it act like a "computer" too
Looks like Chemical Garden trilogy by Lauren DeStefano might be a fit - but as it seems to be a cross between typical young adult fiction of 2010's and poorly made romance novel, I do hope there's something less..…
Also, isn't it really stupid to treat the wind the same way we do with rivers or with electrical current (which is actually flowing the opposite way to electrons, so not like the river/wind at all)? E.g. country A is…
There's Incredibuild (paid), might be worth investigating if it fits your scenario (I have serious doubts it'll work with anything other than basic AOSP due to how lineage's ninja behaves during its early build phase of…
Looks like its easy to wipe and flash the bios chip by CH341A plus a couple diodes to get voltage down to 1.8V, likely without desoldering it too; yet finding the bios image seems to be somewhat impossible due to byte…
> just like Arch Linux and even Arch (Artix) can't be stripped of elogind and such
Neither, it's unethical and there's no possibility of doing that in legal way. However I do write 1-2 hour PoCs on my spare time and my own equipment, using only publicly available stuff - they sometimes come handy at…
> how a developer manages assets like source code IMO there are some workloads, where it is beneficial for a developer to have access to a local repository with at least some snippets based on previous projects. Having…
> special locally installed apps in enterprise ChromeOS environments There was https://developer.chrome.com/docs/apps/overview though, so this seems to be a kind of planned feature creep after deprecating former one?…
And they will provide it as required per law. Note that the law does not require them to provide that in a form that would be usable for anything practical without doing moderate to heavy amount of reverse engineering…
Ooh substances - scary stuff. Must be very dangerous to allow selling a thing that could be made with any CNC router out of scrap, so let's also ban CNC routers.. eventually, let's ban hands as they can be used to do…
Another reason is that giving users the option to root and unlock is possible only after ditching whatever agremeent is in place with Google. So, no Play support for this vendor at all means no sales to normal markets.…
Last decade's definition of "power user" is "being able to type on physical keyboard and have more than 1 window open at a time", and Android caters to that; it would not even remotely be decent, though it'll likely eat…
So far, we can't even get Samsung to have their FOSS kernel stuff published in a buildable and usable form - its basically impossible to build their recent kernels with their recent toolchains without finding out that…
There's likely a statement in Play Services ToS for vendors to do all things possible to prevent bootloader unlock/relock flow from happening - reasoning from the fact that yellow AVB state is non-existent outside Pixel…
I'd go for a "real device cloud", AWS/testgrid/browserstack/whatever. However depending on your users' demographics, it might be a good idea to take a look at https://dontkillmyapp.com/ and get few used devices from…
It is possible to have a project set up with a manifest which contains only a single activity with android.app.NativeActivity pointing to a .so, and zero lines of java/kotlin/flutter/whatever else - though your app…
@dang I think this one was supposed to be https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1ax1dn7/lost_...
On topic of this specific kind of vampire, see also: Blindsight, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
After OPPO/OnePlus merger, things went downhill really fast. IIRC, OPPO did something that ended up alienating some parts of Lineage/ROM developer community in general and the work on supporting newer devices was…
> Xiaomi mtkclient [0] would let you skip the whole 7/14 days thing (also: unrestricted partition dumping/flashing). Though there are chances of ending up with soft/hard brick (normally possible to revert back to…
Unless your phone has fastboot already unlocked, yes it will result in you losing all the stuff at least once (there's an unavoidable wipe on bootloader unlock/relock). In that case, if your changes are restricted to…
That specific blindness story was debunked later on (~month past initial report); something about having only a single unnamed source touting that story to multiple newspapers. As a russian rave goer: my deepest thanks…
> provide support when the customer has trouble understanding how to connect to a device on their local network. Is it possible to order current revision of TinyPilot for someone in a remote location and connect to it…