#Android Rooting

[emeraldmew]

The Chee are frustrating, aren't they?

To me they're frustrating in that I feel like they're almost missing something that would tilt them into being a better element of the story, but it's not quite there.

I really want to know how the Pemalites defined violence in their programming (it would give us insight into the Pemalites themselves, too).

Or the limits of their AI in general. If they work like real "AI" they'd probably have some limits to how creatively they can think about getting around their problems. I know Erek says the Pemalites created them to be their equals rather than as robot workers, but he also says the Pemalites were the real creative force and doesn't say but sort of implies that the Chee don't make more of themselves. The only Chee around are the few hundred that the Howlers didn't wipe out. They are machines. In the end they are limited in the ways they can problem solve and I can't help but wish we'd gotten a better idea of what these limits were.

Maybe a better look into the limits of how Chee think could make them less frustrating an element? Barring that, maybe we could have gotten more of a look into the nonviolent sabotage they managed (taking longer to fix a downed communications system than needed, nudging people away from going deeper into the Sharing when possible)?

Heck, I wish it explored how the Chee feel about dogs being carnivores! Wolves hunt. Dogs hunt. They preserved the Pemalites through the Earth animal that looked most like them but that animal was a predator. Rotating the Chee programming to figure out what's going on in there.

Erek's reaction to the violence he could do was good. I can see why he wouldn't want to do more. He also knows that the human and Hork-Bajir hosts died just as violently as their yeerks. He knows he's killed innocents in his ten seconds of reprogramming. He knows he could do that again. I'd have loved to have had that scene address Erek wondering if he could trust his judgement on when and how to kill.

Idk. The Chee continue to be important up through the endgame, so I wish they were better delved into. I don't have the right words to explain why they frustrate me so much.

[ueberdemnebelmeer]

@verginediferro tagged me to share 4 non-selfie photos, hiiii🥰

i often purge my camera roll and barely take pictures as it is but (clockwise): early morning half-hidden nebelmeer, first caspar david friedrich i've ever seen in person, ceiling of a shop in florence, late autumn twilight pic

i believe who i had in mind has already been tagged but, regardless, if you see this take it as an invitation to do the same 🫶🫰🏻

[adelle-ein]

learned how to get into cotc with umodel instead of fmodel and the playable character folder still just isn't there btw. there would theoretically be some more things i could try if it wasn't for the emulator block, but i doubt square'll be getting rid of that, so. yeah. i guess if global ever catches up i could try using it then :|

[moggettt]

HERE IT IS!! after Many moons of chipping away at this OC song comic for my scifi-noir android character Whitney and his bodyguard Bast, it is finally as complete as it shall ever be;; I’m proud of the work I put into this one! Pretty niche, but maybe some folks out there will enjoy UuU

ps: there's also a video for easy viewing!

[abracadaze]

society if you were able to preview updates for apps/operating systems before downloading them to make sure they’re not dogshit. why yes i do have autism thank you for asking

[localravenclaw]

Sebastian Sallow × Ren Aries Android AU

Moodboard and image by @esolean ♡

[thestargazingstrawberry]

I fixed it

I FUCKING FIXED IT

Ronald McDonald and his impossible cybersecurity standards can suck my dick and balls

so turns out it was because of the SafetyNet phase out, the new Play Integrity API checks device integrity differently and the McDonald's app was already updated to it...

meanwhile two separate banking apps were sitting there like "yeah, this is a safe device" and a calculator, an RPG game and the fucking McDonald's app were screaming and crying and refusing to work

gonna do a bit more testing

[x-heesy]

Rooting & jailbreak are essential

Stock Firmwar-ass Are boring and useless

The Lack Of Hope - Glass Figure Remix by Gesaffelstein 🎵

[james-harmony]

I spent the better part of 3 days (4???) thinkering with a really cheap android phone. I swear those things have gotten more locked down since the last time I used one

[duckapus]

Equestrian Forms for "A Snake in Horseland"

Since the Arle Arc's nearing its climax I figure I should have these ready. Just focusing in species/Pony Tribe for now, I can figure out cutie marks and shit later.

The Crew (plus Antivirus, Mira and Amy because of course they'd come for this)

Mario and Luigi: Earth Ponies

3 and 4: Unicorns

Meggy: Hippogriff (doesn't have the ability to shift to seapony form)

Bob: Changeling (doesn't quite get the hang of transforming at first)

Boopkins: Dragon (barely looks any different tbh)

Saiko: Unicorn (specifically she has similar proportions to pre-curse Mistmane, including the long curved horn, but more muscular)

Tari: Pegasus

Melony: Alicorn (if you think she wouldn't be one given her abilities you're lying to yourself)

Juliano: Earth Pony

Toad (of course he's here they're trying to save his current house guest): Equestria doesn't know what tf to do with a talking mushroom and leaves him the same

Domain and Forum: Earth Ponies (since they're based on Mario)

Emulator: Unicorn

Antivirus: Changes back to his normal form before anyone can see

Mira: Griffon

Amy: Earth Pony

The Kids Note: not all of them are here because they were kind of on a time crunch for following Ozzy

Lil Coding: You'd think he wouldn't change since there's cat people in FiM (at least if you've seen the movie and comics) but they have specific proportions so there is still a change

Lily: Siren (so, Seapony but she also has a genstone lodged in the base of her neck)

Haltmann Triplets: Earth Ponies (since Elanore is mostly Mario's clone and if it weren't for their hairstyles and outfits Hex and Vee would be Elanore recolors)

Barney: Equestria has even less idea what to do with a robot than a mushroom so there's no change

Fever Quartet Like Sig would leave one of his bug-finding buddies hanging

Amitie: Pegasus

Raffina: Earth Pony

Klug: Unicorn

Sig: Pegasus, but his demon arm manifests as a red bat-like wing

The Anchors (and necessary tagalongs)

Link: Earth Pony

Doc: Domestic rodents already exist in Equestria

Frida: Deer

Timmy: Unicorn

Cosmo and Wanda: Already natural shapeshifters. They initially end up as Breezies but retain all their usual abilities so it's mostly just yet another disguise rather than replacing their usual default forms

Rodney: Earth Pony in base form, Alicorn in Champion form

Mina: Pegasus

Harmony: Her status as Spirit of Heart trumps Equestria's Mirror Magic. No change.

Syndicate Scouting Team

Mr. Crocker: Earth Pony

Vlad/Plasmius: Unicorn/Ghost Unicorn with fake-but-functional bat wings replacing his cape so he looks like a vampiric Alicorn

Vaati: Initially a Breezie Because Picori, quickly changes into a Unicorn

Lokoko: The biggest most ethereal damn deer you ever did see

Admin Gohma: Changeling Queen (has the proportions and more dragon-like eyes of Chrysalis but the bright colors and solid, less zombie-like build of the reformed changelings)

And then I've already said that Ozymandias ends up as a Dragon and Kirin and Garyboy ends up as a Pegasus in my post where I came up with them ending up in Equestria.

[libraryofbaxobab]

August 20, 2024:

This didn't grab me like "The Tusks Of Extinction" did, even though it has very similar environmentalist and, more specifically, animal cognition themes (and the same author). But octopuses are really cool, and their intelligence is creepy and exhilarating to think about. That's pretty much it, I guess.

5/10 #WhatsKenyaReading

[cheezyharu]

LANOTA IS FREE FOR 3 DAYS??? *rushes to appstore and downloads Lanota for the first time in 2 years*

[brambletakato]

would it be a fool's errand to try and rip descole's model from punipuni, because not gonna lie i am very curious about the sword and potential rigging differences (that might make him better to put in other stuff like vrchat) and it looks like they actually fixed his boa

[spitblaze]

well. therion still got way farther than any of us anticipated so im at least happy about that. we love u therion ur MY favorite fictional purple boy that isnt mine or my friends OCs

[mirqmarq428]

The freaking "OEM unlocking" option just won't show up

It's only been a day and I want to gut this bitch and shove a pi zero in its ass. but no soldering iron