Bunch of assholes. Hopefully eventually that will be illegal. We have a long way to go.

Still it’s got to be possible in theory.

Really? Damn. Not even via hacking?

Does Thunderbird have unified inbox? And how well does it deal with Exchange? Just do imap mode?

That site is like an asylum. I tried looking but it’s an absolute mess. It’s fine though this was sort of a if I can I will kind of project. I have plenty more devices to tinker with. Like too many lol.

I like it. It’s fine if I can’t get any custom rom onto it. It’s not my main phone I don’t even use it as a phone. It’s just a supplemental gadget.

Also, to suggest that its age means it should be replaced is a horrible attitude. This thing can serve so many purposes including even as a main phone if someone didn’t need too much. Your attitude is why the planet is falling apart.

They don’t have the Galaxy Note 3 listed in the devices. However, numerous websites state that 18 works on it. Are they all wrong? I would believe if you told me it simply cannot be done. I don’t know what to believe anymore since there are a million sites that are full of shit as it is.

Do you know of a rom that does work on it?

Ok thanks. I will look.

I’m not asking others to Google for me. As I’ve explained to others, I have done a ton of looking for weeks actually. It’s just most of the instructions I find are not very clear at all. I stated this in my post which precludes the possibility of my not having done any prior research. That’s something everyone seems to have missed except one guy.

Root would be for the older units which aren’t getting any updates anymore and where I just want to tinker.

I’d be interested in any of the roms available such as Lineage, Havoc, /e/, or others.

No worries it’s just I had done research literally for weeks. I just could not find anything that was written as comprehensively as I’d hoped. I will spend some time looking at the links you provided which again, I really appreciate. I think online it’s easy for any of us to just provide what help we can rather than look at what could have been done without us. Bottom line is someone’s asking for help even if no more than just to tell them seek and ye shall find and all that. But I had gotten frustrated with how many of the XDA folks post their instructions.

Anyway, not the most important things in life, by any means :-)

I posted a reply to you that was meant for someone else. I really appreciate what you provided for me; that was far more than expected and it was very kind and generous of you.

I actually have done a massive amount of research but most of the instructions I’ve found are vague in some respects, sometimes they’re outdated, and sometimes they just assume too much. I’ve literally seen ones that say like “1. Unlock boot loader. 2. Load new rom. 3…. Etc” I was like “uh… how about any clue on how to do those things? Even a link to sub-procedures where it’s already documented.

Sometimes someone happens to have experience with one or has a great tutorial that helped them, and that’s what I was looking for.

I’m kinda coming from the era back when we were hacking the roms of windows mobile phones, or the old Nextel phones using Java tools to sneak in our own ringtones when the phones were all locked tight so the carriers could penny pinch you for $2 for a ringtone. Instructions back then were extremely comprehensive even had fucking photos lol. I don’t need that much but a lot of what I find today is just unintelligible. I pretty much assume it’s meant for someone who does this all the time.

Thank you, again. I appreciate your help.

Wow! Thank you that’s a ton of info to work from. I really really appreciate it!

Folks are so negative here. I think some of em should be on reddit where all you’re expected to do is piss on each other lol.

Seriously if we had rewards in Lemmy - though it’s good we don’t - I’d give you gold. You went above and beyond that is very much appreciated. 💙

Thanks!

OP has CLEARLY done homework if he’s complaining about the instructions he did already find. If OP had done no homework then OP would not have spent time pointing out the very specific problems he had with existing directions. That would be a paradox.

I’m OP.

Also, you did give me a great response and pointed me what to look for. Thank you! That was very helpful and I appreciate it.

Many thanks!

Thank you!!

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Omg absolutely yes. Thanks. I just replied to him nearly word for word. Just wanted to know if anyone could say they’ve done one of these and it was easy and/or hey this website is usually very clear. That’s all.

Sheesh :-)

Lutris seems to offer a lot of easy setups for games, but I want to use some windows apps from my own installation files, and it seems to be not very intuitive

Yeah you know what, that’s already too much hassle. What I really want is to optimize it by getting rid of bloat. However, if I do all that I can without rooting and it runs fairly well then it will suffice. Thank you for response and to everyone else who responded.