I date back to punch cards in college in the 70’s, punch-tape and cassettes at Heathkit, IBM-DOS, & DEC’s not-quite-IBM-compatible desktops.
I’ve just-tried tons of stuff on many dozens of versions of Linux over many years (literally hundreds of hours worth) and what I’ve learned that I have to “lose” (and what I increasingly lack to throw-away) is time.
While I love cutting-edge I need to balance various hobby interests with work and family – so I tend to force myself not to do cutting-edge as I cannot justify the trial & error & frequent dead-end time.
I also tend to always seem to find the exception where my hardware (computer and cellphone) happens to be “that model” that will not work and that no one is interested in getting to work (e.g. my prior cellphone could be rooted but they never made a custom rom for it – which I had expected there would be when I bought it).
All that to say that there must be someone else on the planet who can solve this and I will thank them, even send a small donation, and then copy what they have proven successful. Right now I have to focus on solutions I can use to be productive, even if they are a little rough around the edges & I’m a tester, rather than challenges at the margins that may never prove functional.
Thanks – David
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