:donor: [Sylvie]$ :blinking_cursor:<p><span>Anyone in the </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/Linux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a><span> community ever flash a Sony </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/Walkman" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Walkman</a><span> with Linux? I have a NW-A306 that I love because of the dedicated physical buttons and aux port, but it's still nice and small! However there are a few issues with it that make it anti-consumer that I've run into: <br><br>- You need a Google account<br>- If you </span><i><span>ever</span></i><span> forget your device pin, there is no easy way for the consumer to do a factory reset, even if you have the Google account credentials in your password vault. You have to go to a Sony service center and pay for a reset<br><br>Thinking about maybe becoming a maintainer for </span><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>postmarketOS</span></a></span><span> on the NW-A306, but I have no clue on flashing feasibility, time commitment needed to get basic functions running. or bricking risks with Walkmans and Linux.<br><br>I really want to also recreate the Sony music app that simulates a cassette tape being played with even the cassette tape type changing based on bitrate and lossless vs lossy! I haven't found such a music non-waveform visualizer Linux app yet, but surely there's an existing Linux music visualizer app that would support just adding this kind of cassette visualization instead of writing having to write a music app from scratch, right?<br><br></span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/linuxmobile" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linuxmobile</a></p>