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		zozbot234 on Nov 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LineageOS Android Distribution You can actually permabrick the hardware with a non-compatible or buggy flashed OS. It's an embedded device, so the Linux kernel has access to a lot of stuff that it wouldn't, e.g. on an ordinary PC.

exikyut on Nov 9, 2019 [–]

Kind of ironic that said embedded device is supposed to have at least nontrivially-above-average security.

But flashing itself can also go horribly wrong due to poor bootloader quality etc.

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