Yay! Congrats on the release! Any chance I can put this on my new rpi5 or will that require some additonal porting? Currently running 21 by konstakang. I've been trying to build a controller-driven media machine.
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#32Highly recommend the Samsung S5e Tablet with LineageOS. It’s an amazing tablet for comics and light reading. Hard to beat its high res AMOLED display, incredibly light weight, and decent enough specs (I haven’t personally seen slowdowns when using Lineage on a minimal install). Forgoing gapps gets you crazy standby time. Couple things to note is it doesn’t have a headphone jack (it is legitimately that thin though) a…
Good to know, as I still use an S5e as my comic reader. It's not getting security updates anymore, but to be honest it's not like I'm running banking software on it, so I don't care as much about malware risks as, say, my phone. It's still plenty speedy on stock firmware.
What would be the attack vectors for malware on a tablet? I’m genuinely curious how crucial updates are for older devices.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, what do you buy? I had Xiaomi last and bought another one recently and they have made it pretty much impossible to unlock the bootloader. Apparently limited number of unlocks at 12am Beijing time. I have tried a few times, read through all the complaints and the community forums, and Xiaomi can very kindly just fuck off. It used to be really good value for money as the hardware is great. But without…
I used to spend so much time flashing different ROMs, and even cooking a few modifications of my own. These days I find it much easier just to buy first-party devices like a Pixel and just move on with my day. They seem to have the least 'gotchas' in my experience. Stuff is unlocked, it gets updates, and doesn't have bloat/malware baked in.
Some would consider a Google device as malware out of the box. At least you know who is spying on you I guess.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
The biggest problem with /e/OS is the launcher (Bliss). The launcher does not seem to be able to do app shortcuts, particularly to make a shortcut to an incognito browser tab. Widgets are also confined to a separate page. [Please correct me if I'm wrong.] It's really trying to be an iPhone in some constraining ways (stressed by the Settings icon).
Lawnchair [1] is a pretty good alternative. [1] https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair
It needs to be in f-droid, or maybe on ffupdater.
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#35Can you get this to install on Fire tablets? They are getting cheaper and cheaper, but the utility value without a minimal stock environment is very less.
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#36I still buy devices based on the likelihood that they will be supported by LineageOS. Good to see them continuing along.
Out of curiosity, what do you buy? I had Xiaomi last and bought another one recently and they have made it pretty much impossible to unlock the bootloader. Apparently limited number of unlocks at 12am Beijing time. I have tried a few times, read through all the complaints and the community forums, and Xiaomi can very kindly just fuck off. It used to be really good value for money as the hardware is great. But without…
I buy uses OnePlus phones off swappa and flash LineageOS with microG right off the bat.
For a tablet I have a Google Pixel Tab, which has official LOS support. Very happy with both
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to spend so much time flashing different ROMs, and even cooking a few modifications of my own. These days I find it much easier just to buy first-party devices like a Pixel and just move on with my day. They seem to have the least 'gotchas' in my experience. Stuff is unlocked, it gets updates, and doesn't have bloat/malware baked in.
Some would consider a Google device as malware out of the box. At least you know who is spying on you I guess.
Given the fact that all phones have closed-source baseband firmware and are hooked up to vulnerable networks running ss7, they've got worse things to worry about if they're using a phone anyway.
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#38> SeedVault[1] and Etar have both been updated to their newest respective upstream version. What do folks use for backups that's actually useful (full app data + secondary stuff like KeyStore entries) nowadays? [1]: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/wiki/FAQ#why-do-s...
Swift Backups with root, and then Syncthing that directory of backupw to a home server. When I switch devices I just sync that directory to a new phone, install Swift Backup and do a restore.
It's the modern Titanium Backup
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#39Highly recommend the Samsung S5e Tablet with LineageOS. It’s an amazing tablet for comics and light reading. Hard to beat its high res AMOLED display, incredibly light weight, and decent enough specs (I haven’t personally seen slowdowns when using Lineage on a minimal install). Forgoing gapps gets you crazy standby time. Couple things to note is it doesn’t have a headphone jack (it is legitimately that thin though) a…
The S5e is super old and many devices are likely facing battery age issues.
I wish I had known this device was going to see long-term support like it received. I would have bought one at the time.
The only modern tablet officially supported is the Pixel Tablet (tangopro). It's good enough but the screen quality isn't as nice as I would like. It should be supported for many years to come due to it's SoC being common to the Pixel 6-9 phones.
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#40Highly recommend the Samsung S5e Tablet with LineageOS. It’s an amazing tablet for comics and light reading. Hard to beat its high res AMOLED display, incredibly light weight, and decent enough specs (I haven’t personally seen slowdowns when using Lineage on a minimal install). Forgoing gapps gets you crazy standby time. Couple things to note is it doesn’t have a headphone jack (it is legitimately that thin though) a…
> required to use Windows
There’s an alternative flasher for Samsung’s bootloader that works on Linux/macOS: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall
It might not work with this particular tablet, though.