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.
The Chinese are going to save us once again? I never thought I would root for fucking China vs US in my life.
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.
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.
The usa could save us all by falling into the ocean