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.

Unfortunately in my case, I really need wifi and would much prefer using some sort of internal wifi rather than a wifi adapter.

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?

Well, I think this may be not a bad idea at all. However, what would really stop me from using your search engine is if my search queries (or anything else I send) were somehow tied to me and/or sold to someone. Please don’t be like Google, Microsoft, or OpenAI.

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.

Good. I hope this poorly written piece of spyware dies out soon. Carefully read Microsoft’s Privacy Policy and I guarantee you it will scare you away and make you run to Linux and other open-source software. No seriously. The amount of spying they do is simply unacceptable. Same thing with macOS (yes, Apple does collect a ton of data about you!). You can get Apple’s Privacy Policy here.