I was given/won an iPad a few years ago.
The only way I could activate it (this was a first gen that needed a PC to activate) was to install XP in a VM and do it that way. I couldn't evne charge the thing until I found ipad_charge.
Sadly I hear Android is going to the shitfestst that is MTP and dropping USB mass-storage so by the time I come to buy a new phone the cunt's will have fucked that up too.
Seems nobody makes a decent smart phone nowadays -- they all wand you to jump through hoops to just use the fucking thing.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 20:19, 1 reply)

I had to laugh when I hooked up my Nexus 7 to my Mint install,
naively expecting that two Linux devices would have no trouble communicating with one another.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 21 Aug 2013, 8:34, closed)

Your phone.
You need to do the Australian equivalent of fucking it.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Wed 21 Aug 2013, 8:41, closed)

Probably easier just to teach Mint to use MTP,
as that eliminates the possibility of me bricking my tablet. My phone's only on ICS, so should still present as mass storage, although I've not tried it with Mint.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 21 Aug 2013, 9:07, closed)

true.dat
It's pretty fucking hard to brick an android device by rooting it. Unless you are a complete idiot.
In which case you should probably stick to Nokia.





Like me.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Wed 21 Aug 2013, 9:50, closed)

I've looked at rooting both devices,
but concluded that I wouldn't really see any benefit, so gave it a miss. HTC made ICS available for my DesireS, anyway, so my primary motivation was taken away.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 21 Aug 2013, 10:17, closed)