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I crashed my HTC m8 and had to do a factory reset today. thought I'd try rooting it so I could get rid of all the forced installation aps I hate..
however I cant seem to find a sure fire way to root it, plus any method I can get on fails.
any ideas, tips?
>>53632582
Most phones (Samsung found a way around this) can be rooted by putting the phone overnight in a glass of root beer.
Make sure the phone is TURNED OFF!!!
This works, as the locking chips change states when they come in contact with some of the chemicals found in root beer, hence the name.
Do this on your own risk.
>>53632582
I have rooted mine long-long time ago, and it wasn't easy but the one method that helped me was posted (on xda) and tools ware made by a guy that has the word "sun" in his xda username
sunshine or sundream. some stupid shit like that. he has a tool for s-off-ing as well that costs 25 dollars.
I hope this is helpful :)
>>53632711
it has been thanks.
trying to avoid spending money though. always thought this was a straight forward thing, but it's nightmarishly tedious just finding anything that works
Hey again /g/. I gave up Windows almost a year ago and have been distro-hopping since. I finally grew some balls and installed gentoo after being on Arch for a few months and am a little disappointed. Firefox runs very choppily with videos (much more so than Arch) and I'll get strange merge errors when I try and merge certain packages which really slows me down on day to day activities. I was sure gentoo would be my final solution, am I just retarded? As well, my friend (slightly less savvy) switched when I did and never left Ubuntu. He's said only good things about...
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>>53632547
I just want Linux to work man...
>>53632547
linux is generally shit.
its made by autistic neckbeards who think they are elitists and have no intention of producing anything for the end user.
>>53632547
Have got to the point where other gentoo people tell you it's your fault?
You want something lower maintenance and stable, like Debian.
Which is worse: converting a PNG to a JPG or converting a JPG to a PNG?
>>53632432
png to jpeg
at least jpeg to png doesn't result in information loss
>>53632432
>JPG to a PNG
I die inside every time I see that some nigger has decided to save a jpeg artifacted screenshot as a giant fucking png. There is no need for this, you aren't preserving any quality, all you're doing is making longer load times.
>>53632485
This.
png to jpeg is at least justifiable, there is no reason to save a jpeg as png.
The new Google Chrome/Chromium (M49/M50) is shit. Its chock full of useless and annoying changes that feel like they were done by tinkering designers who can never leave well enough alone.
Thank you Chrome team for:
* The ugly material design buttons and animations everywhere
* Reducing the number of visible extensions, so I have to go to chrome://extensions/ manually every single time to make any changes
* Obnoxious Material Design layout for Downloads page which shows FIVE downloads on my FULLSCREEN 1920x1080 window. THERE IS LITERALLY 3X AS MUCH EMPTY SPACE ON THE SCREEN COMPARED TO AREA THAT PROVIDES A FUNCTION OR INFORMATION
* DISGUSTING, NAUSEA INDUCING SMOOTH SCROLLING
I swear to god, these design-happy animation tween motion UI loving hipster fags need to be fired and given jobs where they fucking belong: In a motherfucking starbucks
Fuck Google. Jesus christ almighty I hope Servo is stable soon because I can't take much more of this pile of garbage.
You can turn every one of those off in flags, why you bitchin?
Use this version next time.
"I'm too retarded to configure my software."
FTFY
Can someone tell me how to trace a phone number. Someone is texting my mother threatening messages but not death or injury texts so we cannot contact the police.
>>53631509
>>>/nsa/
>>53631509
have you tried searching online phonebooks or maybe even typing the phone number into google
REEEEE Why do I even own a normie-book anymore?
>this technology is bad because I saw it on a movie once
>this man doesn't know what he is dealing with. I should know, I'm a longshoreman from New York.
This is an actual comment
Actual comment
>Instead of wasting millions or even billions on these ridiculous "smart" robots, how about you lower tuition or even make it free so actual humans can be educated? A lot of people don't further their education...
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>>53631111
>Whats the plan? Make these robots so smart that will eventually make actual people look stupid? Come on
They already did. Based technological overlords
call me when they make fuckbots
>>53631197
They're triggered because they will replace them (eventually us) in their jobs.
What's the best anti virus software to get?
Defender. CommonSense 2016-edition. If in doubt, MBAM.
>>53630912
Bit defender?
A brain. Don't install stupid shit.
Why do you not have one yet /g/?
>>53630601
too poor, all I can afford is a macbook :(
The original Surface was much more interesting
>>53630614
have you tried being less poor?
Applefags will defend this
Are those dildos?
>>53630084
butt plugs
>>53630073
$19 for a 4pack of butt plugs is a good deal.
Who fucking ships a monitor like this? Seller had 98% Feedback rating with 500 reviews.
Guess that is what I get for buying the LG 34UM57.
Shipping horror thread?
>>53629390
>HDD came with a thin, single layer of bubble wrap.
>it wasn't even long enough to cover the whole thing
I'm surprised by how shitty standards they have on such fragile items.
The drive is doing great for 3-4 years now.
everything i buy gets destroyed / DOA'd in the """ mail """
it's come to the point where i have stockpiled computers i got near free and only buy new-in-physical-store monitors to avoid the bullshit involved with ebay / craigslist
i have no regrets
>he owns a blue yeti
>>53629369
no I own an AT2020
and never do anything with it
worse
blue snowball
even worse
I use my corsair headset mic more often
>>53629369
A what?
Meme or not?
>>53628998
ur a meme
>>53628998
if you know to efficiently overclock, not at all
if you're like me four years ago when i bought my 3650k, then yes
>>53628998
If you are doing CPU intensive tasks -- not meme.
If you aren't doing CPU intensive tasks -- most likely meme.
Also great thread.
this is a horrible idea
https://openmoth.herokuapp.com/
holy shit the tweets KEK
QUIT SPAMMING SHIT RETARDS
ok what currynigger is shilling out this account
Why is Gentoo a meme and Arch supreme?
It's even more "minimal" than Arch since you can enable only the USE flags you need and cut out the bloat.
Portage is practically Cortana compared to Pacman.
If you've got an i7 it compiles just as fast as Arch installs.
It's easier to compile than Arch because it does it automatically as you install.
It doesn't break unlike Arch.
It also has the most detailed Wiki in all of Linux.
you are bad at conveying intent in writing
>>53628143
Yes
>>53628143
>le Arch breaks all the time maymay
What is some technology that failed so miserably, it tanked a company?
>>53627960
she aged like milk
>>53627986
whos that
Windows Phone
