Could you link me an online resource detailing that process? I've been wanting to put the accumulation of old phones to use.

go to lineageos, click on your phone. this'll get all your old phines the same type of android.

it's not what i do -i used a fairly weird build.

the generic steps for ine way of doing it: download a recovery program, install it on the phone. pick the android rom you want from the recovery program. click install. it'll reboot your phone and install it. this is the way a gramma can do it.

a prefer hooking it up to my laptop with a usb cable and just typing the commands in the android shell. that is the way gramma cannot do it.

HN is not for politics, and especially not for political shit-flinging.

What a selfish way of looking at things. The site guidelines [1] exist for a reason, one of those reasons being that most HN users don't open the comments of an article about a few severe Qualcomm CVEs to read comments randomly laced with "orange man bad".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

but they do open them, and see a comparison between trump voter delusions and apple fanboy delusions. making that comparison is not discussing politics. now if you want to pretend trumpers are smart people not made fun of on every corner of popular culture, my comparison would be invalid. this would however mean you yourself are delusional, making the comparison valid.

what we don't want to see is endless discussions about the discussion itself. because it's offtopic spam. if you want to discuss how we discuss things, open a separate post about it, and don't do it in a thread about phone cpus.

I take it you are familiar with Samsung Galaxy phones?

You can unlock the bootloader on many Galaxy phones by going into Developer Settings and turn on OEM unlocking.

Unfortunately, this is not true of most new Galaxy phones sold in the United States.

correct. and samsung unlocks those for free if you ask them.