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First things first: I never implied (or wanted to imply) that you were introducing malware in that patchset, just that you could introduce it and I wouldn't be able to find that in…

It has had different phone numbers before, but we always ended up having some issue with some app where the it (correctly) thought the number was invalid, wouldn't allow you to rep…

Probably on every connect, there are ways to randomize your IMEI on every boot on certain phones though (that might be not very legal in some countries)

I did the mod with a Pinecil and some tweezers in my kitchen table in 15 minutes. Might look hard but if you have steady hands and a $25 soldering iron you can do it without issues…

On the other hand, I have a XPS 15 9500 I use with Linux all day and never had an issue with anything. Always suspends, never wakes up by itself, no hardware issues... My work 16" …

I'm no expert, but if you ask me, I would completely erase the phone, upgrade it via DFU, and start fresh. After setting it up again, run another backup and rerun the tool to doubl…

Given there's an electronic lock on the other side with a keypad, it makes me think that thing has its own actuator and didn't want to mess with it. Otherwise it would just be a ma…

There was no option to bypass cloud login when it got to my hands, apparently that has been "fixed" with some update, but if you buy a device and it comes with an outdated firmware…

After the Unifi Video fiasco, I bought a UDM Pro to test Unifi Protect. Once I saw it required cloud login I got scared. After I saw an ubiquiti ssh key preinstalled in a device wi…

You can connect multiple accounts from the desktop client if that's what you mean... If you mean nextcloud to nextcloud there's also federation, but haven't really tried that as I'…

That count is only of quectel and qualcomm binaries and libraries, busybox, sysvinit, scripts, config files etc. where not in that pack. True though, most of them don't do anything…

Not parent, and I'm not going to say it sucks, the project takes a lot of work from a lot of people and I ain't the one pissing on other people's work, it definitely could use some…

Right now, on Mobian, you will get more or less 2-3 hours of screen on time, with everything enabled (modem, wifi, bluetooth, max screen brightness and doing stuff with it If you j…

It depends a lot on cable quality, what you have on either side and the connectors in between. At work we had to repurpose a pair 170ish meter cat 6 cables for some cameras and it …

That is not true since Mojave. It will always tell you you have a pending update, it will dump a notification to update to Big Sur (already happened to me this morning), and it'll …

More because the Inetrnet came and allowed every vendor to sell directly from their webpage instead of going through the distribution channel, making retail software stores obsolet…

The biggest announcement here seems to be the "Security updates from Google Play" I don't know if that means Samsung doesn't get to decide when you get updates or if it means "we'r…

Casio solved that problem 40 years ago with 4 screws and a rubberband. It is what it is, the same with soldered ram in laptops. Cheaper manufacturing + worse repairability == bigge…

Crust runs in a RISC cpu inside the Allwinner chip, and it only works in that. I don't know if the NXP chip has a 'dedicated' core to manage the actual ARM cores, but all the work …

Well, probably this was the result of some corruption in a parameter in the flash. On the early days of the Samsung Galaxy phones if you broke part of the efs partition the modem c…

It's even worse when you notice that two of the four "new" models come with an 8th gen Intel CPU, and DDR3 memory, it's like they replaced the keyboard from the previous model and …

Doesn't the Android emulator run in QEMU? And doesn't qemu actually emulate a Soundcard? So it makes sense that when the emulator starts and boots the kernel in the VM it will prob…

Truth is, Windows is a mess when installing stuff also. Beside installation folder and registry, there is also user's AppData folder, \ProgramData in system drive, and then install…

I'm a sysadmin with a mixed knowledge in C, PHP and Javascript my first time both with Vue and the whole webpack & npm world went like this: Day 1 I didn't understand anything Day …