#The Bootloader

[gamesatwork]

e386 - Too Many Brits

3D mapping, AR, more Trombone Champ, Rocksmith+, Stadia, digital legacy & deepfakes. All with special guest @epredator.

Photo by Aron Van de Pol on Unsplash Special guest Ian Hughes joins Andy and Michael R for this edition of Games at Work, altering the British:American ratio for the weekly discussion on all things tech.  They get the party started with some examples of 3D mapping following on last week’s session.  Epic’s Unreal Engine-powered Twinmotion is available to subscribers of Autodesk Revit, allowing…

[zvaigzdelasas]

I get what this means & largely sympathize. but. You guys know your mobile devices are actual computers right. right

[bootsorthossneaks]

Simply want to wear, sweat an cum in it

[kairosthegoat]

I just installed arch i totally have an idea of what im doing and what is happening

[bunexceptional]

Shoutout to Linux for being capable of telling me when I need to insert a bootable floppy disk, instead of booting from my EFI system partition.

[adafruit]

Well, this is a first for us…our initial prototype design for an ESP32-S3 "RGB TTL" display driver board didn't work perfectly the first time!!@!?? j/k that's like Tuesday for us…so back to the drawing board. We won't try driving the TFT from the octal PSRAM dedicated pins (35, 36, & 37 natch), which means our pin usage got squeezed out since we needed them for all the hardware and button interfacing. So we slapped on an xCA9554

https://www.digikey.com/short/qpmrj929

- picked because it's the same i2c expander used on the official EV kit

https://www.digikey.com/short/nbbjr3nh

and its pretty cheap. Now, the expander handles the three TFT SPI initialization pins, TFT and touch reset, a basic backlight on-off, and the two side buttons. That leaves us 6 GPIO free: a full SPI set and two analog pins. We will share the neopixel with the UF2 bootloader double-tap detect. Will it work? We'll find out!

[clatterbane]

This is what we want to see!

Operating in full Tired Chaotic Dumbass mode last night when I was trying to get the new external disk set up, what did I manage to do? Wipe out the boot partition on the WRONG DRIVE. Because of course I did.

So yeah, everything else on the drive was fine, but I couldn't boot into anything there.

After a little internal screaming and more than a little cursing myself, the best plan forward looked like getting the system up and running to boot off the new drive as I had intended, downloading a Windows 11 install ISO from there, and then hauling my stupid ass to bed for a brain reset.

But, this afternoon I did successfully get a working EFI partition and Windows bootloader back on the internal drive!

That does work the same on 11.

And, a very similar procedure if you didn't manage to fuck up the whole partition like I did, but just the Windows bootloader files:

But yeah, I did test and it's booting fine now.

In an enlarged partition too, since I decided to migrate my existing MX install over onto the new drive. Because yeah they make it easy to do that:

Thankfully I had already written the (gigantic) ISO and burned it to a USB before I accidentally wiped the boot partition. Was trying to get the new drive set up for it when that happened.

[the-almighty-drawing-tablet]

for the first time since upgrading to win11, i finally got my beautiful boot menu back! (after tons of research and terminal typing ofc)

[axolotus8]

normal windows

[adnansoftware69]

How To Unlock OEM On Samsung Galaxy Phones & Tablets?

[friendtechbd]

How to program atmega8 using Arduino.Atmega8 bootloader

[lonk-water]

New* phone is supposed to come tomorrow

I'm excited cause I made sure that I can install a third party os this time

*used

[ceionia]

i made my laptop display the trans flag at boot before actually going to grub and i just think its nice

[bootsorthossneaks]

My cum prepared meindl combat boots after a long walk in wet and sweaty socks size 49,5 UK 14

[stechguide]

How to Unlock Bootloader of Xiaomi HyperOS Devices

Unlocking the bootloader on your Xiaomi device running HyperOS allows you to control your device completely, enabling custom ROM installations, root access, and other advanced modifications. However, unlocking the bootloader will void your warranty, erase all data, and could expose your device to potential security risks. If you’re ready to proceed, follow this detailed guide to Unlock Bootloader…

[linkfandos]

WARNING: Hard boiling Xiaomi/

Yup that's a very controversial title but let me explain. Also it's not COMPLETELY shit you'll see.

So the begining

Basically, my old phone died recently. So rest in peace Samsung Galaxy J6 2018 Custom rommed that did a boot loop he never recover from-

So the thing is I destroyed my wallet and bought a new one. Saw good reviews online, so came to a store and chose it. First mistake.

The first shit

So it's a Xiaomi Redmi Note 13. It's a pretty decent phone in term of specs with cool cpu and 8GB of RAM and 256 of ROM… Like it's OKAY. It came with MiUI. Which is basically their own OS.

I immediately updated to HyperOS, which was the new version of MiUI. After that i just… used it like a normal person UNTIL!

The day i got ads for changing my wallpaper.

I changed. My wallpaper. By the way it was a drawing of Atlas my beloved moth Squidinu i love you kfjddjfdkfjdkf

So like… Opened Google photo, selected it, got "Set as wallpaper" and then SURPRISE M.THER F.CKER. (Was for temu btw)

I was like "bro what" Cause' i thought i had opened something weird or anything well NOPE The app was "Themes". Then it just randomly closed that's an issue too.

So! Opened settings, got in "Themes and look" THEN SURPRISE ANOTHER AD!

Useless to add that, for some reason, THEMES WHERE PAID. EVERYTHING IN THIS (duck) (butt) APP STORE WAS 1€. (Nope it's not made by Electronics Arts.)

I said (duck) off imma made my own one. So downloaded KLWP (which is some cool app to make custom animated wallpapers and stuff) and enabled it. Didn't work. Why? AUTHORIZATION """""refused""""" for my """"""security""""""

We're talking about reading the number of notifications i have.

So yea that didn't work either.

So, duh, imma try to remove the bloatware.

Spoiler i can't it just says "nuh uh" and pops out some random error.

XDA forums.

So! Since this thing was going to kill me! I decided i should install a GSI! (Cause' for some reason no custom roms were out yet you'll see why later)

SO! Unlocked OEM, Check Installed SHIZUKU, Check Downloaded LeafOS, Check Bootloader unlocked, HUH OH! NUH UUH!!

Usually to unlock the bootloader, you have to use a app for Microsoft Windows, which is already a problem since i use linux and i can only imagine what kind of things OSX (Mac) users have to go through, then you plug it in, open fastboot, (Which is an mode on android that allows you to edit partitions using commands) and then "Error! unauthorized!"

Well the issue was easy, i had to open settings and link my developer account to the phone to unlock bootloader!

The result: Nope.

I think you might have expected it but that didn't worked. At all.

The page in settings shows up some error in Chinese. Which apparently translated (Thanks Gemini) says something like "You need to validate your account on community app"

So i tried.

Installed the VERY sketchy "Mi !NEW HOME! Community App" (that's the actual name on the G Play store.) and logged in, settings, "Unlock boot loader".

Yup… Umm…

"You… " erm. "You have to wait until 8/8 (mm/dd) at 00:00 (UTC+8) to try again."

So i did.

"You have to wait until 8/9 (mm/dd) at 00:00 (UTC+8) to try again."

…Seriously?

Waited 2 days. For nothing.

You see why nobody makes custom rom? Cause' xiaomi is so buggy that you can't even unlock boot loader with THEIR OWN TOOLS.

Honestly, i'm not the kind of person to usually roast something like this, but… Seriously. I didn't even mentioned the translation errors everywhere, the app icons, the bloatware… Even the whole OS looks like ripped off Apple iOS!

So yea. Sorry Xiaomi but right now, i hate you.

So i'll try again tonight and check if that works, even if right now i need a tall buff guy to hug me from behind and hold me in place so i dont use PSI Teleport ß into their office and kill everyone using Sharpshooter and Ricoshots. (P rank)