[OnePlus 2 Android Development] sewer56lol:
One definite question always lies, who doesn't, nostalgia is a strong word :). Nowadays I indulge in game reverse engineering, for instance, just last week, a friend and I have finally cracked the 'Sonic Heroes' collision format.

I'm still alive and active, just a matter of where. I am simply pursuing other things, but those things always change (I like to hop from hobby to hobby to hobby).

Sometimes I drop a gift or two by onto the XOS project nowadays but a certain rule I follow is:

"If I'm not going to use it, it is not worth developing", thus with that in mind and XOS making me completely contempt, there was no reason to continue any further development unfortunately.

As an example, if I cannot, ship something that would be my own daily driver (for various reasons) allowing me to be fully contempt and satisfied with it then how should I hold an expectation, or rather want others to use it?

Should I tackle on a project, I would always want to make it as good as possible, thus a 'throwaway' project which wouldn't be actively used by the developer himself would quite frankly make no sense, as is, XOS bring built on a clean stock AOSP-CAF hybrid plate makes me completely happy.

Catching me nowadays is either the matter of going to Discord where I am relatively active or forcing a Telegram push notification down my phone (which is as simple as sending a PM or tagging me or for a few places, updating channel status or pins).

I have actually left an update on the XOS/halogenOS thread about how things are nowadays, along with the changes committed to the thread and in general to life as a whole. A statement that I wasn't (technically/really) dead after I've cleaned the thread OP up was also included, but it would appear that the post would be there anymore.

The post was a rather satirical post, with a proper, * Thread!Sucks Technology™ * banner in place, introducing the latest revolutionary changes made to the thread from a kind of anonymous and third person perspective, written in a kind of newspaper style/fashion, also stating 'potential' known whereabouts of myself (as a third person).

This was followed by a complete parody or satirical post of a chsngelog, since not much could be said, I've parodied the recycling of chsngelog items over continuous changelogs as you sometimes may see changelogs as such, because I was bored, I've inserted two very short, odd and irrelevant sentences for fun and have called it a day, in addition, in a complete spin of events, I have, in the end made the post completely meta to itself.

(I was just writing as I was waiting, bored to be able to actually have access to update that OP).

Unfortunately as for that post, it is no longer there, it would appear that the post in question, which was technically perfectly acceptable within XDA's rules strictly speaking was likely removed by a member of the moderation group. Unfortunately, to add to that, the action committed was completely silent, not a note was left anywhere, not a PM, not even a *Warning* of sorts or anything of the matter, there are no traces of the post removal taking place either. This does not mean that I still don't have a copy of the post, I have the entirety of the RAW post still saved in a text file and I could technically repost it.

That aside, it is a shame that a bit of fun can no longer seemingly be had anymore nowadays unlike the older times.

While I do share an understanding that the moderator or authority who has committed to performing this action in question may have had an incompatible or a lack of a sense of humour or that the post was of a completely different nature, or that it was merely incorrectly assumed as a sh*tpost, I still do find it thoroughly disturbing and disappointing that the entire action took course completely under the radar, trying to leave not a trace in their path.

As for when and what Android things I will be doing in the future... ? I do not know. Whenever there is a gap that will need to be filled or something which is no match to my preference, I will be there.

*Sent from my A2000 series tactical military grade weaponized flagship killer of doom.*