Hey so I'm VERY new to the open source/linux thing, and although there are resources online they are still kinda hard to understand to a google kid such as me, or hard to find for someone not experienced.

It appears I can run postmarket on my galaxy A5 that was lying around in a drawer for 10 years. Thing belonged to my deceased grandmother, still work fine, has no scratch, I just never used it because I already had a device. Wanted to use it as a basis for a cyberdeck using only electronix stuff lying around.

Followed the wiki : I can enter flash mode, downloaded the twrp app but then I struggle to understand what to do. When I select flash to "select device" it just says "failed to fetch data from server". I also downloaded a twrp-3.7.0-9-0-a5xelte.img.tar but can't figure what to do with it.

Any idea gang ?

tysm

So it's been KIND OF A RABBIT HOLE gang. Fell on a thinkpad meme one month ago on tiktok. I was like "damn that's funny". I did not know anything about computers, nor linux, nor privacy, fully using my gmail on every gafam apps imaginable. And here I am now, having gone full degooglelized writing on that t440p I bought for 40 euros that I brought back to life only using locally bought used hardware :D. Took this one cause it yas cheap and saw it was easy to disasemble and because it has a socketed CPU so the right to repair was more accessible in the future. pumped it with a 4810mq and 16 gigs of ram yith a 500gigs SSD. I'm planing to produce on it as a way to prove to myself I can do music on a popato with opensource DAW and plugins. downside is the battery that last 3 hours max, gonna try to cyrberpunk mod it with a 100w powerbank held in place with velcro on the lower topcase yith a USB-C to slim tip cable If I manage to find one. When I'll feel more confortable with a soldering iron I'll look into building a battery inside the CD bay.

Also need to find an azerty kezboard because this one feels great but the german disposition is driving me mad