You don’t necessarily need DRM to break alternative frontends.

they could just block the alternative frontends. Then we’d need an alternative platform.

I guess some people don’t want to hear the truth after spending so much money on one of these.

They aren’t really very special phones. Pretty average tbh with a below average flash light (it’s basically useless) and terrible fingerprint reader. I only got an xperia because it doesn’t have a punch-hole or notch.

Solution? We’re not here to find solutions! We’re here to yearn for the good old days!

just get an external ssd drive and some double-sided tape to stick it to the back of your phone. If you want to increase your battery life you can also stick a powerbank on there as well.

Sony, except the replaceable battery part

I did back then. Not such much these days.

have been using various distros over the years and never had issues with the nvidia driver on any of them 🤷‍♂️

With that title I was honestly expecting something more linux-specific, but the concepts described here pretty much apply to all modern OSs and their file handling.