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Jacob Hall
Personal blog · jacobhall.net · on HN as uneeknamewritingculture
Jacob Hall's personal blog at jacobhall.net covers writing and culture. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Google locked me out of my phone”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post when discussing Pixel phones whose bootloaders cannot be unlocked, with commenters citing it as a reference. The linked post covers the Pixel bootloader unlocking problem.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Google locked me out of my phone2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-08
What Hacker News says?
The same thing happened to me, and I wrote an angry blog post about it[0] It is not OK for Google to lock me out of a phone that I own! LineageOS (running on a different device) has changed the game for me. It has been a smoother, more accessible Android experience, and I'm so grateful to the developers who make it happen. [0] https://jacobhall.net/2022/01/29/000177
Comment linking /2022/01/29/000177
on “LineageOS 19”Submitted Horton Hears a Whostyle as a story · 29 points
HN discussionYeah, I'm in the same boat; so is this guy: https://jacobhall.net/2022/01/29/000177 I google "flashing unlock is not allowed" every few months, but there's nothing new to try.
Comment linking /2022/01/29/000177
on “LineageOS 19”Submitted Google locked me out of my phone as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLocation: San Francisco Remote: open to it Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: *SQL, Python, R, HTML/CSS/JS, Bash, Perl, Racket Email: email@jacobhall.net I'm an outgoing and motivated programmer, with years of self-taught coding experience as well as formal research. I enjoy preparing and modeling data, and designing performant scripts to get things done. My portfolio includes geospatial analysis projects in Pyt…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2022)”Submitted How I made the best map of William and Mary as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI love reading through link directories. There's something so personal about how we curate the internet. My linkroll[0] has been evolving for a few years now, and it's been a nice way to organize the sites that I want to remember. Every once in a while I'll go back through the list, and inevitably some of the pages are changed or even offline. It makes the internet feel alive. [0] https://jacobhall.net/links
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on “Webpage List: Discover new websites”Submitted Horton Hears a Whostyle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSometimes there is no known way to unlock a Pixel bootloader: https://jacobhall.net/2022/01/29/000177/
Comment linking /2022/01/29/000177/
on “Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates”The title actually is accurate for the Pixel 2. There are a bunch of those that nobody ever figured out how to unlock: https://jacobhall.net/2022/01/29/000177/ https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/14920605/google...
Comment linking /2022/01/29/000177/
on “Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled”