in the US, no different

Replace all the parts at once

AKA buying a new one?

Looks like a dystopia to me, can’t get anywhere by foot and all the cars look like the same general design

If you are replying to someone claiming to be Finnish followed by some bs then maybe it would…

The Ukrainian language isn’t allowed here for some reason. On a community called “World News” that says “Not United States Internal News”[sic] in the rules. Or it’s not the community fault, I don’t know…

Canta

Don’t bother, there’s still Unihertz’s spyware in there. LineageOS and derivatives are buildable as generic images that use the OEM drivers, reported working on that specific device. It’s a complete pain to build but some random people publish premade files, see here (get the first “Vanilla EXT4”) and here. More options there.

There’s a manual specifically for the Unihertz Jelly Star here. Although the download link there is outdated and the MicroG instructions are also outdated (follow the official ones instead).

If you don’t want to use the phone, may as well give it to a comrade locally that wants it.

in the US (…) we got rid of 2G

Sad. Although there should be modern bricks with 4G that aren’t too expensive, usually marketed as “for grandparents”.

There are other phone manufacturers than Nokia. Always have been. Shocking, I know.

EDIT: looked around and the ones with reasonable prices are usually the carrier contract ones from the carrier stores and carrier prepaid ones from literal grocery stores :/

FuriOS

Never heard of it.

To preface, most active rom development used to take place on forums, mainly XDA. Nowadays it’s on telegram, which is gated unfortunately

That user said “LineageOS”, not “black sky project andromeda void to infinitum nanogapps safetynet bypass v pizde optimized custom kernel gambling android read only memory: gold bar edition”.

bootloader lock sux

True.

50 USD

That’s 2 weeks worth of groceries (at least where I am from), what the hell man.

Linux phones

You are probably thinking of the devkits. The community has mostly moved on to getting existing devices to run their favorite distribution. Which is mostly for fun’s sake, since pretty much everyone has a desktop computer with the same (although IIRC someone installed PostmarketOS from a public use PC, that was nice). The community is tiny since it’s right in between “modern day smartphones are a necessity” and “Android isn’t open enough”, anywhere below and above (incl. spectrums) are unlikely to think of getting (and daily using) desktop Linux on a phone.

dumbphone

(??)

I keep stating this and I will state it again. An MT62xxx nugget costs ~10 USD new online OR ~4 USD old new stock at the closest to me bazaar. OR ask relatives if they have a keypad phone in a drawer somewhere, you will probably get it for FREE and it will have quite a lot more functionality and homebrew (not exactly a “dumbphone”, more like a “smartphone” but by 2000s definitions).

not everyone on here is super tech savy

Well, I personally wouldn’t consider it difficult. If you happen to get a phone that allows proper bootloader lock of course (bypassing gets more complicated, not end of the world most of the time). See here and there.

Ask friends. If you don’t have any, I can volunteer to remote into your computer and do the thing, actually.

bricked (…) Unihertz Jelly Star

Do you still have it? Should be relatively easy to unbrick that nugget.

Erm, I hope you didn’t know that someone literally just ran a few commands on an off the shelf phone and increased the price tag.

I recall hearing about a contract with some EU based company too, though. For both one way and two way satellite IP. No idea if that’s still in effect. Also no idea if Starlink is still in effect. Well, apart from the star-to-cell bullshit Kyivstar is trying to do with the AI generated landing page. Or were trying earlier this year.

Also, I recall someone complaining that if you order Starlink for one location and then put the unit in another, it will go “roaming mode” and limit speed. Doesn’t hurt too much but that sucks! I would imagine that if you are stationary enough you may as well take time to set up line of sight directional antenna shit on land to some other object.

filled with the trash of struck down satellites

It’s already full of trash of operating satellites. Starlink is very very low orbit. When pieces go in random directions (assuming significant enough vertically), they either go back to the atmosphere (air will stop it, duh) or slightly higher up to be in an orbit that’s original height on one side and slightly higher on another.

Well, someone did exactly that with Sonic Unleashed (XBox 360) IIRC. And a few select N64 titles.

The produced code is complete garbage, it’s basically the machine code disassembled, but instead of assembly it’s some technically valid C that can be forcefully shoved back up a compiler. Due to register sizes and calling conventions being different across architectures, there was zero chance of making the giant blob cooperate with native builds of the libraries it used, so some poor people had to pick out everything machine specific in the giant pile of shit that came out of the disassembler and fake it. That took forever.

The PS3 runs on an ancient fork of the FreeBSD kernel. We don’t even know which version. No compatibility even on syscall level.

Now, I remember that some random person added Nintendo Switch syscalls to Linux aarch64 then took GPU emulation from Yuzu. They stopped when it ran some Tetris. Now, that was relatively easy given the Switch doesn’t have too much of special hardware. Also, the CPU there only has the base instruction set + md5 extension, basically every aarch64 chip has that.

Now, the PS3 is full of random DSPs (basically coprocessors that are shit at everything except some specific tasks). And even if you get a PowerPC machine powerful enough (like some decommissioned server), it still probably won’t match all of the instructions. Catching SIGILL to emulate them… meh, you are basically writing an emulator. Which I bet would be slower than just emulating the whole thing at once.

I am sure I need the WWW network to use a search engine

I was confused until I figured that you meant one way mailing lists

fatbox.moe

Give instructions for toilet paper weapon plz

Uh huh, yeah, I recognize some of these words

Nobody wants to admit being mentally sick

Well IDK, I tried Bing directly a few times and it would just grab one of the keywords in the query and then completely ignore the others. Unless it’s a conspiracy of the big DuckDuckGo with Macroslop…