I got an Android tablet for free from work today. It's a Toshiba Yoga 3, with a weird shape and built-in kickstand. I figured it might be useful for some kind little computerized display, maybe for controlling the lights. It's from 2016, which means it's been about six years since any meaningful updates. I haven't had an Android device in a while so I figured XDA Developers would be a good place to start, see if there's some way to unlock the bootloader and put a more modern ROM on this thing.
Good fucking god.
Maybe I was younger and just didn't notice, but there's so much trash. Threads with download links long dead. Graveyards of example images buried behind Tinypic headstones and the kind of community you would expect to see in a knock-off warez scene board. If you've never had the pleasure, 5% of the posts are by some of the smartest people to ever grace this earth - and the remaining 95% from the dumbest motherfuckers given a keyboard and the promise of free Things as long as they hammer away their basic questions over and over.
For the moment I'll just see how far I can get with Android 6. As long as it can sit there and run one app, I'll be happy.
