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My biggest blog post yet, and it's about running (almost) vanilla NixOS on a (formerly) Android phone! This was 50% fun and 50% exhausting... you solve one issue and another one crops up right away... it was certainly an interesting educational experience.

I'm not explaining any basic technical concepts here, as I'm not a complete noob in phone ROMs and Linux.

Ask me any questions if you have them!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Okay Ubuntu is bad but it doesn't have anything to do with Oracle... Did you confuse them with Canonical?

But yes, this hasn't been an official Canonical project for a long time... afaik

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Sorry i had a brain poop moment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm glad. The trademark usage makes that a little unclear.