PotatoNV VS Mono

You could try PotatoNV, but it requires disassembly or another way to access USB COM 1.0 mode (Sigma has "Software testpoint", but sigma costs a lot).

You take your phone apart, get it into testpoint, use potatonv, write locks.

And while yes, it is possible to unlock some devices, the custom rom scene is basically dead at this point. Some old Huawei phones were supported by LineageOS until 18.1 IIRC, but that's about it.

The only open source solution i found was https://github.com/mashed-potatoes/PotatoNV is still in development and looks unmaintained for months.

Unlock bootloader with potatonv, then install custom rom of your choice. But yes, this takes some effort.

Well OP is in luck because there is a free method https://github.com/mashed-potatoes/PotatoNV

I believe you can with this but it needs you to take your phone apart https://github.com/mashed-potatoes/PotatoNV/blob/master/README.md

In the video you basically install .NET 7.0 SDK with the deb packages from Microsoft repos AND mono deb packages from repos laid out in https://www.mono-project.com/ apart from Unity and VS Code. And then you configure VS Code so that it always uses Mono installed in the system (not Unity Editor's own instance???)

4- Any user-side telemetry would be in the MS .Net framework, which is not used when you selfhost as .net based stuff like Jellyfin use Mono, which is fully open-source and independent (https://www.mono-project.com/)

Did they intentionally name it after a widely used, well known programming framework[1], or did they want to guarantee, I dunno, that they will fly way, way under the radar? I thought it was bad form to name a new programming language 'Cedar', but at least the other Cedar isn't actively developed, unlike the other Mono.

[1] https://www.mono-project.com/ for the few of you who didn't know.

.NET 4.8.1 and earlier do not install on Linux. Unless you want to play around with Mono (your mileage may vary): https://www.mono-project.com/

They have deceived you. https://www.mono-project.com/ I seriously don't know how well wine can deal with newer .NET winforms

It also gained a lot of more popularity and success after the release of the open source implementation of it called Mono.

Hey, I'm working on a C++ game engine in VS Code and wanted to add C# scripting, so I'm trying to install Mono. I already got SDL2 working with CMake, but I'm having trouble setting up Mono because it doesn't seem to have any out of the box CMake support.

Microsoft already has universal cross flatform low level spyware as C# and .NET (which is used by tons of even native linux games, especially made with Unity), mono is sponsored by Microsoft and has telemetry. Wine also uses mono.

And then installs proprietary steam, spotify, vscode and develops on C# for linux with telemetry even in mono runtime...