Paweł FixeQD

My adventure with Samsung Galaxy A26 5G

Chapter 1: The Broken Motorola Edge 50 Fusion

I had been using my Motorola Edge 50 Fusion for a while with a modified kernel and an unlocked bootloader. One day, out of the blue, the bootloader relocked itself, and the system failed integrity checks. I tried to unlock the bootloader again, but I couldn't—OEM unlocking had also disabled itself automatically, and the toggle was no longer accessible.

I reached out to Motorola support, but all they offered was an ADB-based workaround—hardly a solution for EDL mode recovery this solution was useless because I couldn't even turn on the system lol

I decided to send the phone to the official service center. The shipping cost me 16 PLN (about $4). After inspection, they wanted to replace the motherboard for 1013 PLN (around $250). I declined and asked for the device to be returned. They did send it back, but I still had to pay a 116 PLN (about $28) "service fee" just to get my phone back

Once upon a time, I had a loyal ThinkPad T470.
Specs?
💻 i5-6300U
🧠 16 GB RAM
💾 ADATA LEGEND 710 512GB on a M.2-to-SATA adapter (because native M.2 wasn’t a thing, and yes, no screw, classic ThinkPad moment).
Still, it worked - barely held together, but it did.

Then, after one of those nights, the ThinkPad decided it had enough.
No power, no signs of life. Just... silence.

My Artix + dinit Installation Cheat Sheet

Personal reference, but feel free to steal it. UEFI + GPT + btrfs subvolumes on linux-zen. NVMe optimized. dinit as PID 1, no systemd anywhere.

Warning

Everything gets wiped. Run lsblk first and confirm your NVMe name - usually /dev/nvme0n1, but verify.

This uses the Artix Linux ISO, not Arch. Same AUR, same packages, same rolling release, no systemd. Download from artixlinux.org.

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	# ─────────────────────────────────────────────
	# CONFIG
	# ─────────────────────────────────────────────
	DEVICE_PATH = "/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd"
	PTT_KEY = "KEY_RIGHTCTRL"
	APP_NAME = "PTT"
	MAX_LOGS = 50
	REFRESH_RATE = 4

	{
	"output": {
	"bass_enhancer#0": {
	"amount": 8.0,
	"blend": -5.0,
	"bypass": false,
	"floor": 10.0,
	"floor-active": true,
	"harmonics": 8.5,
	"input-gain": 2.0,