Still living that dream with LineageOS. Such a same it’s not on official ROMs

you’re, uh…
unique~

honestly that wouldn’t surprise me. they are weird little bastards and i love them for it

Nobody can go through your goat and get you in trouble for what they find in there.

…well, if PAYDAY 2 has taught me anything…

ok, so i’m not tripping balls. yeah, what the fuck?

nah, i think this is genuine. features match reality, the room doesn’t look too odd, and that’s not the typical ai slop font

edit: tineye dug this up from a huffingtonpost website: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cartoonist-ellis-rosen_n_5979e678e4b0da64e8770071 not sure why the font is not italicised in the post

manul

Ah, fair enough. To be fair a good couple of spider species were able to cross continents via ballooning, so now that I think about it, mosquitoes doing just as well isn’t too far fetched.

Yeah, probably this. And the increase in temperature simply made the conditions bearable when they got outside.

Could they have also maybe just… flown over there? Insect migrations like this can happen, but I don’t think it’s possible on such a scale, even for mosquitoes.

“Can the Louvre heist be ECM rushed?”

Oh, yeah, the MediaTek chipset complicates things. MediaTek ROMs started going down hard lately specifically because building ROMs for them now is very difficult.

And yeah, archived builds are a pretty good option, actually. https://lineage-archive.timschumi.net/ is the biggest archive that I know, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have any images for gold

The codename is a single word unique to a particular device model. Phones can get released under more than one name (example: Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite on the global market, Xiaomi Mi CC9 in China), and so codenames exist to prevent confusion (for both the Mi 9 Lite and the CC9 the codename will be the same - pyxis - since they’re the same device)

This is a table with all the devices from the Note 13 series and their codenames (middle column)

From what I could gather there really are no official ROMs for any model from the series, but there are plenty of unofficial ones. Unofficial ROMs can be dangerous to run so you really don’t want to install one on your daily driver.

Your only option in that case imo is to buy a phone with better custom ROM support. Xiaomi phones have always been excellent for custom ROMs since they give you very good hardware for a very low price (if you buy them second hand that is).

The only drawback is that unlocking the bootloader (which is a necessary step on almost all phones in order to be able to install a custom ROM) on a Xiaomi device is very annoying and tedious, requiring you to go through Xiaomi’s janky servers, outdated tools, and the infamous 7-day (at least) waiting period.

As a point of reference, I currently run a Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro. I bought it used for ~500 PLN ($120 more or less). Compared to the Note 13 Pro 5G it’s certainly weaker. (which I assume is what you have since there doesn’t seem to be a non-Pro 5G model nevermind I’m blind and stupid, but I’ll leave the comparison as is)

Abridged specs for the Mi 10T Pro are as follows:

• 144 Hz IPS LCD screen
• Chunkier in all dimensions than the Note 13 Pro
• Heavier too
• No SD slot (same as Note 13 Pro)
• 128 or 256 GB of storage, depending on model
• No headphone jack
• Triple rear camera array (wide-angle, ultrawide, macro)
• Main camera is optically stabilised
• Main camera’s raw resolution is a little over 27 MP (the advertised 108 MP is achieved by proprietary Xiaomi software)
• 5000 mAh battery, 33W charge rate
• 563k AnTuTu benchmark score (good CPU)

And the Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G for comparison:

• 120 Hz AMOLED screen
• No SD slot
• 128 to 512 GB of storage, depending on model
• Headphone jack present
• Triple rear camera array (wide-angle, ultrawide, macro)
• Main camera is optically stabilised
• Main camera has a software-assisted resolution of 200 MP - I assume the raw resolution is 50 MP at most (which is extremely good)
• 5100 mAh battery, 67W charge rate
• 523k AnTuTu benchmark score (gsmarena doesn’t list the score for AnTuTu v8, which was used for the Mi 10T Pro - this phone was tested on v9, so the score comparison isn’t perfectly accurate)

So the Mi 10T Pro is visibly worse, but not by all that much (unless you love headphone jacks), and yet in part because it’s an older model (released 2020 as opposed to 2024), it’s supported officially by LineageOS, and that’s the OS I’m currently running on my own Mi 10T Pro.

With that in mind, installing a custom ROM is a very technical process, so it might seem really daunting at first (and that’s because it kinda is), but after your first flash things get way easier. I definitely do not regret switching to custom ROMs and if anything I kinda can’t live without one now, seeing all the bloat and adware on modern OSes.

o e o’, i a e u ie iou ooa, ee?

Currently they’re not close at all to being daily drivers (can speak from experience as I’ve flashed Ubuntu Touch onto a phone a few days ago), but their development has sped up a lot lately, so here’s to hoping for the best!

A bit late to the party here, but today I flashed Ubuntu Touch onto a Xiaomi Poco X3, and it’s… well, it’s rough.

All the base functionality seems to be there, calls should work (not sure because I didn’t test them extensively), sms works, location/gps works, nfc is supported, camera is… passable, battery life is certainly, and noticeably worse but that’s a given - when on standby, the battery goes down roughly 8% every 5 hours, so approx. 27% per day on standby.

While I’m really glad to see how much Linux phone development sped up, they are still nowhere near daily driver status - even the phones built with Linux support in mind are not faring well from what I’ve seen. Even then, I’m keeping this Poco X3 because Android’s days seem to be numbered.

Aye, it’s tough alright. A single word can have so many differenf forms, some with entirely different meanings, it’s insane.

🇵🇱 wycinanki, translates to “cutouts”

If they were to be referenced a bit more directly it would probably be like “papierowe ludziki” = paper people (diminutive)

I always interpret it as legs

I know, right? I tried cutting one in half with a knife and it was like trying to cut a nylon belt with a butter knife - virtually impossible, and the lil guy didn’t even feel it!

Honestly no clue. I’ve seen the term on the bug’s Wikipedia page first, and it stuck with me since.

I’ve looked into the word itself a bit and interestingly it seems like it’s only ever used to refer specifically to the Hippoboscidae family. Weird name for a shoe brand 😅

And yeah, perfectly engineered is just about the best way to describe them. Their exoskeletons are crazy strong - no amount of stomping will kill them, and I mean that wholeheartedly. One time I had to burn one to a crisp with a lighter because I had no other choice, and the little guy didn’t want to leave my house.