EDIT: Added soft- to the title, since it was pissing people off. Maybe I’m still wrong. Idk, it’s just a meme.

  • fernandu00@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I was astonished that I installed lineage with microg on my xiaomi last year and without bricking it not even once.

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      3 months ago

      it usually is pretty painless if you don’t buy a brand new device or a very popular one. but idiot me always gets a 2 month old extremely obscure device.

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        3 months ago

        Any Pixel or Fairphone will work even if brand new usually. With Pixels you dont even need a bootloader unlock code, but they are honestly kinda trash devices in terms of repairabilty and features. Get yourself a Fairphone fellas, best decision i ever made (If you can live with a bit of thicc boi of a phone). Slap CalyxOS on dat thang and enjoy life.

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      3 months ago

      Xiaomi is pretty complicated though isn’t it?. You need to register with xiaomi to get permission if i am not wrong?

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        Yeah but once you do that and unlock the bootloader, installing lineage was too easy. Last time I tried that (it was called cyanogenmod yet) I spent a hole weekend trying to recover my nexus 4