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  • RelativeArea0@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhy don't cell phones have BIOS?
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    2 days ago

    Why, instead of safely entering a BIOS setup

    effiency and lawsuits, phones has embedded hardware, its a bit op to have that initial hardware calls for a embedded hardware system.

    BIOS is initally an IBM tech

    _does the cell phone brick when installing the Custom ROM wrongly? _

    Android is based on linux, that includes the partitioned bootloader (mostly grub on linux and fastboot on android, they’re not technically the same but the idea is somewhat related) if that partition is messed up then its most likely not to boot

    Wouldn’t this protection be better for users? I mean, this could be done through ADB.

    Android is owned by a corporation, I dont think that will be their primary objective

    Also, do you think it’s possible that this way of doing things will come to the computer, with ARM hoping to gain a good share of the market and all?

    ARM is mostly a cpu design corporation that offers license fee to other companies to manufacture thier cpu designs, they’re everywhere. It depends on thier licensees what to add to make profit.












  • Why would you like to federate something that has practiced a “single/minimal domain fits all” ? (ads, scripts, media, trackers, etc. in a single fucking domain), that’ll most likely to stress your instance/server and bandwidth since you cant segregate the stuff you only need. I know activitypubs runs differently but if they managed to put thier style of “single domain fits all” (its only a matter of time) then they could just easily inject thier stuff (ads, trackers or whatever the fuck they have) on your instance making your instance thier side bitch

    ¯_(ツ)_/¯


  • I got 2 q+ tv boxes running armbian for h6

    1st one runs as my dns server + sinkhole via technitium (pihole is a bit janky on them idk why) 2nd one runs as my unifi controller + samba fileserver + torrent downloader

    Reason why i went with this is because they are cheaper than sbc or 2nd hand laptop

    Fun part is that they are running at 20w/h in total