FWIW I didn’t bother unlocking the S9, I just use Shizuku when apps need elevated permission to do things and it’s worked out fairly well so far. I don’t have to play the cat and mouse integrity spoofing game anymore or wrangle manually flashing updates with a laptop so that’s nice. Totally up to you what you’re going for, I don’t need lsposed for anything critical right now so elevated perms is enough for my purposes.

If the Samsung Galaxy tab line isn’t out of your price range that’s what I’d go for. They’re the gold standard as far as android tablets go. I had a good run with my tab s6 (2019 to this year) and I’m pretty happy with the refurb tab s9 I bought to replace it.

Snapdragon 8 gen 2 (tab s9) will absolutely crush any emulation or android gaming workload you throw at it.

I think a refurb or lightly used s9 with the s pen is around $350ish on fleaBay these days. I bought mine for $400 last year but didn’t switch over to it until recently.

Check my post history, I make this exact post every October because it hasn’t ceased to be relevant in years

Correction, they care about being protected from their own customers - that’s what this whole national guard in cities thing is about, keeping folks away from the wealthy.

Same exact fit problems here with mine. I ended up sizing up a half size in the end and slapped kilties on them to take up some of the excess volume. They’re alright, I really wanted to love them but the fit is just a little off even after some months of wear.

Some riff on the 1800s circular design or something, they took liberties

Who could have possibly guessed?

Don’t worry, at least the billionaire parasites and their offspring will survive in their underground shelters!

Ah, yeah, it’s a rare Samsung tablet that has real lineage support these days. The last one I used was the tab S5e and performance vs the S6 was so bad that I pawned it off on a relative within six weeks. I’m using stock OneUI with magisk on my S6 and S9 which means downloading the entire OneUI image from Samsungs update server, decrypting and splitting it, then patching with magisk and kicking it back over to the laptop to flash parts to the device with Odin. It’s a lot more work than updating an AB phone.

Every 2-3 years some fresh exec at Google looks at the iPad market and nurses a semi at the thought of their bonus for eating some of Apple’s lunch. Surprisingly it turns out that you can’t just invent an iPad competitor from scratch in 6-9mo and have it be actually good, who could have guessed. Then it’s time to throw the entire product line out until the next guy comes along and does the same fucking thing.

Samsung is kinda okay as long as you get something like shizuku and use that to enable root management of all of their utter bullshit. That lets you disable a whole heap of intrusive garbage and makes the device actually usable instead of constantly annoying. Rooting gives you even more options but then you have to deal with updating the fucking thing by hand using Odin and a laptop, and God help you if you don’t do it perfectly because it’ll end up needing to be entirely wiped.

If I’m still breathing, keep going

We’re speed running our dystopia

Well, yeah, they always do. Republican admins always leave the economy in the shitter and saddle the nation up with debt so that the incoming Democratic admin has to spend all of their time bringing the economy back up to speed rather than implementing effective reform.

Oh hey, it’s a country full of brown skinned folks who have oil and a govt that’s not already under US capital control. Who could have possibly seen this coming?

When US reactionaries get a look at those “Patria, socialismo o muerte” signs they’re going to start foaming at the mouth

Uhhh, so much for the free market Republicans spent decades championing

Well I know where I’m not watching it 🦜🏴‍☠️