[–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most phones have an A and B slot partitions. This makes OTA updates possible. Say your phone is running on A slot boot/recovery/rom partitions, when you do an update it writes the new firmware to the B slot, once it's determined that it was successful it reboots the phone and swaps the active slot to B and boots up. Next update would write to slot A. You can check the active slot by doing

fastboot getvar current-slot

Then swap the active slot by doing

fastboot set_active a

(or b, whichever isn't active)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Seems pointless. In most mobile devices speed isn't the problem, heat is. Phones, tablets, and even most laptops get thermal throttled within seconds of running at max CPU.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    I mean... It's decoding into garbage because you're feeding it more than just the base64 section. I suppose if you're already running nginx or something you could easily make a page that uses javascript to break the link down (possibly using /, ?, = as separators) and decode sections that look like base64. If you make it javascript and client side there's not really any privacy concerns.

    EDIT: Oops. My Lemmy client didn't load the other replies at first, I didn't realize you already had plenty of other options.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't comment often, but figured I'd settle this dispute. I work on passenger jets, Airbus A320s. The stars always face forwards as if flying from a flag pole. Here's two different placards we're about to put on, one for the left side, one for the right.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    The most bullshit thing ever. I have a Moto 5g Ace, I was sad it didn't have a light, used it for a couple years before putting LineageOS on it. Low and behold it actually has a notification light that was disabled in the stock ROM! WTF

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