• Unlock bootloader (depending on vendor, you have to do an online verification),
  • flash a recovery.img,
  • load into recovery mode (which, depending on the phone, might need extra work)
  • wipe some caches,
  • select new os/rom image,
  • pray it doesn’t brick your phone.

You’d think someone would’ve learned a thing or two from the easy graphical installations linux and even windows have been offering since the late 2000s.

  • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
    71·
    10 months ago

    Thus once again proving that GPLv3 is the best license. At least he didn’t use a corporate bootlicker license like MIT.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      10 months ago

      We know exactly what would’ve happened if Linus had picked a permissive license instead of a copyleft one: it’s called “BSD” and it’s a lot less popular.