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The AI talked me through turning my tablet into a Linux machine

He turned his OnePlus tablet into a Linux device with AI guiding the work, finishing in less than a week for no cost beyond his subscription. Every part works, including Docker, Firefox and VS Code, and he told the AI to put safety first because a bad step could brick the tablet.

How it works

  1. Works through the conversion with AI over less than a week
  2. Tells the AI to always put safety first because the tablet could be bricked
  3. Every component ends up working, with Docker, Firefox and VS Code running and good battery life

Why it’s worth knowing

A job that can brick a tablet if one step goes wrong was done at home in under a week, with no training, for the price of a subscription he already had.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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