TWRP with FS encryption and CM13 support for OPO

Android ROM scene is cluster fuck of inhumane proportion; the complete lack of documentation, decent how-to, decent guides and the retarded works for me attitude the whole community has really amazes me. TWRP project is a good example of a really useful tool used by [millions] of people all over the world, one would assume that it has to be maintained in a professional way but this is as far from the reality as something can get. …

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Fedora 21 and MTP

In order to be able to mount a MTP device (in my case it is a Oneplus One) in thunar file manager the following packages are needed: simple-mtpfs libmtp fuse fuse-libs gvfs-mtp. After installing the previous listed packages restart the system. Once installed the device can me be mounted with simple-mtpfs _directory_, unmounted with fusermount -u _directory_ or mounted with thunar/gigolo/etc.

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OnePlus One

Two weeks ago while wasting time on the interwebs I found by accident a couple of OnePlus One invites. To be honest I wasn’t planning on buying a new phone since my previous Nexus 4 is still serving me well but seeing OPO price (299 € for the 64 GB one) and specs I said: well, fuck it. So far I like it very much, the bigger screen makes general usage more enjoyable and battery life is significantly better than Nexus 4, it lasts 2 days without many problems. …

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