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It's interesting to see the difference between ewaste in the early 2010s and ewaste today.

I had a Fire Phone (fire sale edition) back in the day before I gave it away to someone. People online were passing around guides on how to install Android ROMs on it, or to install Google Play Services if you didn't want to gamble with a custom ROM (since custom roms sometimes had "funny" side effects from experience). People would openly buy orphaned devices back when tablets and phones were still $$$ to mess with them and make them more usable.

The whole culture of "buying an i-opener just to mod it" and "modding an Xbox as a fuck you to MS" was still around. You also didn't need to login to say, some network system to "activate" a device or force firmware updates (iPhone, Xbox One, Oculus Quest 2, increasingly more these days) and Android/similar devices back in the day were usually not locked down.

Then Google and carriers put an end to that and big corporations did too in the name of security. Sure your phone might be vulnerable to shit like Stagefright or Heartbleed, Dirtycow, and many other Linux kernel bugs, or stuck on an old SSL version, but hey at least the bootloader is locked so you won't be running tampered software, right?

What's going to happen to all the Quest 2s if facebook pulls the plug?

RE: https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/9z4smmy0k5