I guess you're right, yeah. I was hoping someone had figured out a different solution, perhaps integrating directly with the individual subscription providers. But I guess that's way too broad of a scope, integrating with countless individual services.
At least a cross-platform, cloud backed "spreadsheet" would be nice to have though.
I don't have the same phone and it's in general pretty difficult to fix a brick without being able to tinker with it. I can give you some pointers though...
First off, this guide is for a model A525F, but your title says your phone is an A526B. If that's correct there's a chance the files you tried to flash were for a different model number and that's what went wrong. Make sure you download the right files for your exact model number rather than trusting the ones your guide provides.
Secondly, to be honest, this guide does not seem very trustworthy. When doing this kind of thing every little step matters, a single misplaced reboot might screw up the whole process. Also, you're downloading and installing on your phone some files from some random website, that's a big risk. The thing is: you don't need a shitty guide for your exact model. For future reference, you're better off with a good, detailed guide for your general vendor (Samsung). XDA forums are usually the place to look. Always find the files you need by yourself, don't just flash whatever some random website makes you download. Go to the official download pages for Samsung stock OS or TWRP and get the files from there, making sure they match your exact model number.
If you're 100% sure that the firmware you're trying to flash is the correct one for your model, you can try avoiding Odin and use adb flash directly. There's plenty of guides on how to do that going around. You might not need TWRP either at that point. Getting familiar with adb is always useful.
[...] I set up a cloud service where my VPN service would be located on Amazon’s web services, a reputable and widely trusted cloud provider. [...] After about an hour, I set up a VPN that worked flawlessly. The best part? Not only is it free to use [...]
Sorry, what? Last time I checked AWS VPSs were very much NOT free to use, and I'm pretty sure the lowest tier is still more expensive than your average VPN.
Also, this article seems to be arguing against its own points: "you probably don't need a VPN, but I have one anyway"...
Backed by who?
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with a recent history of questionable investments...
Bold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling...
Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it's trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.
Funny that the map includes garum, a food that hasn't been popular in a couple millennia
God I hope this is a bit
Are these from a video game or Terry Pratchett's Night Watch books?
I'm aware they're not using a generic model, but that's not much better. Current custom-made models still fuck up significantly more than humans, and in less predictable ways.
Even if their custom model is slightly incorrect 1% of the time, that's still a major problem in critical systems like those.
Legacy COBOL code is largely used in critical systems like those of banks and airlines. What could go wrong with having that code rewritten by stochastic parrots who get programming answers wrong half of the time?
Me when I start seeing sickoposting in my default Lemmy comms
I'm not American, it seems to be available in the US only...