Brett

I think its a cool little project. If you like tinkering and screwing around with tech just go for it. But there are few things which come to my mind. Dont take them as advice against it more like pointers and things to think about.

1. As much as i miss them as a common feature in todays phones. Headjacks on phones were most of the time kind of shit. I had 30€ mp3 players which provided better audio quality than the Z1 compact i had at the time. Idk if the XZ1 got way better? I think the issue is that most phones had terrible D/A converters. But dont quote me on that. But this is only a concern if you have high standards for audio quality for wired headphones. If you use something with bluetooth the point becomes irrelevant. LG V series phones were really good in that aspect and also pleased the audiophiles. They are much bigger bricks though. If you want to use it mostly for audio a used mp3 player might also be a way to go because they can be even smaller.

2. Installing customroms isnt that hard if you can follow a guide and you are able to use a searchmachine on your own. But its still easy to mess up. I messed up quite a lot over the last 15 years. But atleast my mistakes were always recoverable. Just dont rush things. Take your time. Read up as much as you can before you start the process. Biggest issue i see that there isnt an official build for lineage. With that also no official documentation/install guide which you could just follow religiously. My experience is that those builds provided on the XDA forums come with as little information as possible. They just expect you to know your shit? With that often comes a bit of ambiguity because you'll probably find different answers for the issues you search for. It can slow things down a bit and involves trial and error. But in the end i always managed to get things happen and i dont have any professional background in tech.

3. You might want to read up on how easy it is to swap the battery. These phones and with that their batteries are getting old. But in my experience there is for almost every phone a video teardown on youtube.

4. Biggest battery drainers are the antennas. Without a simcard, no wifi, etc phones can last ages. I use my old phone for a similar usecase as yours. It doesnt get too much use but with that i need to charge it like maybe every 3 weeks or so. Its crazy.

5. If you want to use the camera you might want read up on if the XZ1 is still a sony phone were the camera quality drops significantly with a customrom. They changed that some years ago. But idk when exactly.

6. If you want to use it as an offline device mostly for audio anyway(just assuming, idk) maybe just try out the stockrom a bit. It could fullfil your needs already perfectly.

7. Check out Emulators. That snapdragon 835 should play anything easily up to the Dreamcast and PSP maybe even some lighter PS2 and Gamecube Games.

Fair point,

i try to keep that in mind for the future.

Eh, it isnt a front against you guys? Power posters keep lemmy alive. You dont write the headlines.

But yeah, i will comment next time again if i come accross a stupid headline.

I'm talking about the headline and the problem is that it isnt just summarizing. The headlines as is implies that the emulator itself got major performance and compatibility improvemnts. Which is inaccurate. If not bending the truth a bit too much. "Dedicated community keeps PS2 emulator for Android alive with another update" There you go notebookcheck.

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Oh, fuck off. Clickbaiting pieces of shit.

Here are the patch notes without the bullshit sensationalizing: https://github.com/Trixarian/NetherSX2-patch/releases

Back then i still clinged to the few active forums which were still around. I slowly started to switch to reddit 2016 i think.

Because these glasses are quite powerhungry. If i remember correctly from a review a steamdeck used 5W more with the glasses plugged in and the built in steamdeck screen off compared to the steam running regularly. IDK how much the oled screen of the steamdeck consumes but the glasses consume those 5W on top of that!

A built-in battery for an adequate runtime would make those glasses even heavier, bulkier and goofier then they already are.

Coordinated astroturfing on reddit isnt even a new thing. I had the chance to watch how the whole marketing efforts for the Burnout Paradise remaster unfolded from the very first minute . That was back in 2018. It was so blatant how all the posts popped up on the same minute on several different subreddit and then slowly filled with obvious shill comments which got unnatural ammounts of upvotes. I mean there was also some natural engagement. Its still a beloved franchise. But that made it even easier to pick out the tonedeaf marketeer comments since the remaster wasnt that great and it already showed in the prerelease footage. Astroturfing was probably a thing from the very beginning of reddit. But thats the first example i noticed because it was just so obvious.

So what kind of job does the hamburger helper do? I can see two answers but like at the same time.

Eeeew, Nacon. No thanks.

The guy is brilliant IMHO. Watched every Video of them after discovering the channel.

I would use this setup to browse lemmy, maybe watch a yotube video or two and emulate ps1 games.