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[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 108 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

My old ass remembers when XDA was a place where you learned how to put Android on your windows phone

[–] db2@lemmy.world 56 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Or hacked up your own android rom because even knowing jack and shit you could.

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I remember getting the G1 weeks before it came out because the local TMobile store was just sick or me asking every fucking day. I remember rooting it, loving it, then moving to the n900 and thinking "I want this forever" only for fucking Microsoft to buy Nokia and tank Meego

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I'm still hunting for leftover stocks of the N950... would love that phone.

Imagine if we got a refresh of that - tilt screen, full QWERTY, modern, large, high resolution display, modern hardware and battery tech, bundled with open bootloader and pick your poison OS...

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 1 points 14 hours ago

This would be lovely. I loved the Nokia phones, it’s such a shame it was all ruined by Microsoft.

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago

It's my dream phone honestly. I really should have grabbed one years ago.

As much as I HATED the way the company put out this phone, you're describing the FXTEC pro 1

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 4 points 13 hours ago

putting Android on the HTC HD2. Man college me wanted that phone so badly. And a lot of HTC's phones tbh

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That was the XDA forums, I never found their site very usefuly, but maybe that's just me.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

Yeah the forums are a treasure for old phone hacking

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago

Oh I know, but for a long time that was the only reason to visit the site.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

seriously. their stuff now is borderline clickbait! so. many. listicles.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Not borderline, they're literally a clickbait farm now. There's an almost daily release of the exact same articles rehashed (e.g. "these are the main Docker containers I run on every server" title changed up a little and it's literally always the same 4-5 containers).

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 19 hours ago

i mean this article about wine 11 and ntsync is at least relevant and somewhat technical, not just "i tried out 5 different self-hosted ai butthole identifiers on proxmox - number 4 will surprise you!"