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What's the worst gift you've received? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Gruntyfish@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Shimitar@feddit.it 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

A fucking android tablet. The worst one on the market: even a browser would lag opening the simplest pace.

But i was able to install Gentoo linux on it and hack enough to have fun. It was still pretty much unusable tough.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 16 points 1 year ago

This one is hard though. Coming from a poor family of a kid wanted an ipad but there's no way we could afford it I'd try to get them the best we could afford. Those tablets sucked back in the day, but I sold a lot of them to parents who couldn't afford the iPads pricetag

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey man, that shitty tablet probably gave you a life-long love for hacking. If it had been a fancy iPad, you would never have tried to switch it's software.

[–] Shimitar@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately internal memory gave up quickly so only like 3 years of fun

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind? I have a rooted galaxy tab a7 lite for some games but I don't use it much

[–] Shimitar@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

It was an Asus. Even a top tier one. Still shitty hardware.

[–] bi_tux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How long did it take to compile?

[–] Shimitar@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

The BASIC system only some 1 day GUI (xfce or such) only some days.... Firefox like a week...

But i made it!

[–] Shimitar@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

The BASIC system only some 1 day GUI (xfce or such) only some days.... Firefox like a week...

But i made it!