AI can speed up a lot of the manual labour needed to bring even an almost dead, 10-year-old device back to life. My Xiaomi Mi Max 2 (oxygen, MSM8953) was dead. With AI help and my own knowledge, I ported/rewrote the missing drivers, and it now runs Nura (postmarketOS) with working camera, torch, SIM, phone calls and SMS. Only the loudspeaker is still broken.

Everything is up for anyone who wants to install it, or to understand the changes and manually write the patches for mainline: https://github.com/sv1sjp/mi-max2-oxygen-msm8953-nura-drivers Testing, feedback and PRs welcome.

  • elixir_fan@lemmy.ml
    282·
    2 days ago

    Depending on what you mean by saving us, I don’t think China will, but they’re not invading random countries, staging coups, droning civilians, etc, so these two countries are not even remotely comparable.

    • GooeyGlob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      812·
      2 days ago

      Ahem. I’m not equating these things with what you said, but China doesn’t have the cleanest hands, not even counting the myriad human right issues they look the other way on so we all get cheap tech trinkets. When your companies have to install suicide prevention nets and leave enforcement to companies outside your own borders, its not a good look.

      Not trying to do a whataboutism but they have significant issues as well.

        • Libre Extremist@lemmy.mlEnglish
          21·
          7 hours ago

          China is an imperialist force in East Asia. It is destroying every non-Han culture and religious expression within the CCP controlled areas.

          • KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 hours ago

            China is an imperialist force in East Asia

            According to western media, thinktanks and commentators comfortably sitting and circlejerking in the imperial core, yes.

            It is destroying every non-Han culture and religious expression within the CCP controlled areas.

            Easily disproved by random travel bloggers that travel China e.g. Xinjiang and Tibet