<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pabs3</author><text>The main issue is phone vendors not sending their hardware support and other customisations upstream to the Linux kernel, bootloaders and AOSP, but the open source community sometimes does work on this. The second issue is boot security, but some companies allow unlocking and there are a lot of exploits for bootroms and kernels. The third issue is GPL violations and other binary-only hardware support (kernel drivers and userland daemons), but reverse engineering can help there.&lt;p&gt;It is definitely possible though, I&amp;#x27;ve done it myself in 2012, but I pretty quickly gave up due to the above issues and the bugs I found in the hardware vendor code:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bonedaddy.net&amp;#x2F;pabs3&amp;#x2F;log&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;debian-mobile&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bonedaddy.net&amp;#x2F;pabs3&amp;#x2F;log&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;debian-mobile&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>pachico</author><text>Although possible, I wish installing operative systems in phones was as simple as it is for computers. 
I&amp;#x27;m already hearing experts saying it is the simple but it&amp;#x27;s not :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hello, LineageOS 17.1</title><url>https://lineageos.org/Changelog-24/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noisem4ker</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a full spectrum of possibilities here.&lt;p&gt;- Google lets you flash Android from the browser, using WebUSB: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;flash.android.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;flash.android.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;- Most Android phones can be unlocked and flashed with some command line tool.&lt;p&gt;- With Apple, you&amp;#x27;re screwed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pachico</author><text>Although possible, I wish installing operative systems in phones was as simple as it is for computers. 
I&amp;#x27;m already hearing experts saying it is the simple but it&amp;#x27;s not :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hello, LineageOS 17.1</title><url>https://lineageos.org/Changelog-24/</url></story>