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
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…
every time i’ve tried to decypher something from the XDA forums i feel like i’m looking into a different dimension, i’m guessing it’s because most of the people there are non-western and thus it’s quite literally true (india has a ton of native english speakers after all, whose version of english is quite different), but boy does it hurt my brain.
Same thing with telegram, the way people write and behave makes me uneasy
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).
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!”
I painted my NAS red and you won’t believe the improvements
Okay this just unlocked a random memory. Back when I worked at a call center, on a slow day a lady called about a product that we no longer directly supported, and she went on a huge tangent about how everything she buys is bright red to remind her of the fires of hell. Bright red purse, bright red clothing, bright red phone, bright red computer, etc. she also told me quite a bit about a children’s book series she wrote about a Christian dog
XDA was not always this sensationalist. With that said, I always welcome performance improvements.
My old ass remembers when XDA was a place where you learned how to put Android on your windows phone
Or hacked up your own android rom because even knowing jack and shit you could.
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
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…
This would be lovely. I loved the Nokia phones, it’s such a shame it was all ruined by Microsoft.
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
That was the XDA forums, I never found their site very usefuly, but maybe that’s just me.
every time i’ve tried to decypher something from the XDA forums i feel like i’m looking into a different dimension, i’m guessing it’s because most of the people there are non-western and thus it’s quite literally true (india has a ton of native english speakers after all, whose version of english is quite different), but boy does it hurt my brain.
Same thing with telegram, the way people write and behave makes me uneasy
That too, and I’d hazard a guess the people posting on XDA have strong imbalance of social/communication skills compared to their technical expertise.
Oh I know, but for a long time that was the only reason to visit the site.
Yeah the forums are a treasure for old phone hacking
seriously. their stuff now is borderline clickbait! so. many. listicles.
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).
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!”
putting Android on the HTC HD2. Man college me wanted that phone so badly. And a lot of HTC’s phones tbh
HTC Incredible was my first. XDA was my place shortly thereafter.
The HD2 was a game changer.
XDA will write articles these days like:
Orks approve
We were using the flying toasters screensaver before you were even born
Okay this just unlocked a random memory. Back when I worked at a call center, on a slow day a lady called about a product that we no longer directly supported, and she went on a huge tangent about how everything she buys is bright red to remind her of the fires of hell. Bright red purse, bright red clothing, bright red phone, bright red computer, etc. she also told me quite a bit about a children’s book series she wrote about a Christian dog