In theory, yes. There is a first-stage bootloader (that actually finds, loads, verifies, and jumps-into fastboot) baked into the hardware (implemented in fuses and ROMs [like REAL roms, not “flashable” ROMs]), and AFAIK it cannot effectively be modified after the phone is manufactured, so they try to keep it as simple as possible.

So if it were real, the psuedocode would be something like this:

var fastbootPartition=locateFastbootPartition();

if (fastbootPartition == null || !verifySignature(fastbootPartition))
{
     // AFAIK, this code block is already a thing in production, but the
    // message is more like a "signature failed" or "corrupted" than
    // a "you done goofed".
    displayRudeMessage();
    halt();
}

var fastbootAddress=load(fastBootPartition);
jumpTo(fastbootAddress);

Seems to have a bit of “fox” in it.

This got me thinking… Imagine a future, where someone could collect your dust & garbage to make a clone of you. Might only effect celebrities.

Not to be confused with getlaidmites and getlaidtights. :)

Missing the headphone jack?

“Let them eat food” --T

“Nailed” it… get it…? Anyone? Just me? Fine…

Thanks.

Add (or maybe even glue) another cardboard sheet to the inside bottom face? It might help spead the load out a bit.

Give 'em a break, I’m sure it’s just their first error with units. (Procedes to google “verizon dollars and cents”)

That was fast…

That’s Mr. Human-Cyborg Relations.

I keep telling myself that next time I will buy a “designed for linux” device. It’s not that you can’t make it work, but the accumulation of little things (webcam, wifi, whatever the that newest thing is that they wanted to try out for this one model), kind of wears on you.

Considering your rather minimal requirements (read PDFs and take handwritten notes), I would actually recommend something far different that either of those two paths… a supernote manta.

Ditto.

AI pilots crash and burn?

I don’t know if this is what you mean, but I find that “Westworld” hits a lot harder post-ChatGPT.

I remember it taking a lot more suspension of disbelief on release, but now much of it falls into the realm of plausible.

Maybe not the “computable consciousness”, but the glitchy hand-wavy “we don’t know how it works either” aspect… at the time it seemed like a mcguffin cop-out, and now that’s like all the new business models.

Are we coming to (or past) a point where one needs to not update Android, for sanity’s sake, and risk getting hacked until an alternative rises?

…he feeds his school-work to ChatGPT.

My theory is that we don’t look at our phones, we look through them (like a window)… smaller bezels exacerbate this.

And further, our minds know what we see through them is a fictional digital world (itself like a dream)… and we likewise do not dream about dreams.