Thanks! Installed FreshTomato and so far it’s working fine!

Well, I’d say 2 GB of RAM is actually quite plenty for a router since it doesn’t need to do anything that RAM intensive. Even a desktop computer running Linux with no GUI only uses around 100 MB of RAM.

Well, they say that development for these phones is mostly dead.

Also, I do think that getting a virus by simply downloading Android ROMs from some unknown source (or an open source project maintained only by 1 person) would be quite easy. Not to mention that xz-utils, an open-source project was recently backdoor-ed.

Well, I just found a guide on how to install twrp 3.2.3 on a Samsung Galaxy Star here, which has the model number SM-J337T. It has the exact same SoC, CPU and GPU as my device. The guide has a link to an unnoficial twrp recovery.img image. Would it be safe for me to use that for my SM-J337W?

PS. What does the T and W mean in the device model number?

Mee too. Already switched to Gentoo. I also plan on setting up my own NAS.

Uhm, if that happens, maybe the devs could use something like qemu or a specialized fork of it?

I hope this isn’t going to be the default. I know, the average granny might prefer to have a BSOD with a QR code, but I think a lot of the people who are more tech-savvy, like me, would prefer to see log messages when booting because then you could see which service failed and why or why it’s all of a sudden taking so long to boot. That’s also why I choose not to have a splash screen when booting.

Anyways, this BSOD thing doesn’t apply to me because I use Gentoo with OpenRC.

Well, I eventually got bored of Arch and installed Gentoo this summer. I enjoyed it 😎.

PS. I wish there was a Gentoo emoji.

Natively or in a VM?

Well, you do have qemu, which can run x86 programs on other architectures (not just running x86 virtual machines on top of hosts of other architectures).