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I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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[–] gigglybastard@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

thanks, this sounds great. i've installed a few custom firmwares but like a decade ago and i wanted to install one on my motorola recently and was just perplexed at the complexity of it all, i might be getting old. i mean i can follow instructions, but just so many things can go wrong, don't do this, softbrick, don't do that, hardbrick ... honestly, the instructions were well written but unorganized a bit, just put me off.

i think i might like GOS tho, sounds great and 2nd hand pixel 8 or so are cheap enough so i'll probably give it a go.

[–] LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

Yea a lot have changed in 10 years in the cat and mouse game. GOS is a completely different thing. Want to unlock or unlock bootloader on a Motorola = 2 pages instructions in different xda threads. On a pixel? fastboot oem unlock done. And that's just because I'm old school , GOS have a webinstaller were I think you don't even need to touch the terminal.