Noob is trying to build Android kernel 4.14.x

#linux  #android  #en 

At the beginning of this article, i would like to mention that i’m a noob when it comes to android custom kernel or ROM development, so some of these information may be obvious to some of you, but it was relatively hard to find one place with up-to-date information on this topic.

Backstory - why i want to compile the kernel for my phone?

My current phone is the Xiaomi Mi 9 - i’m very happy with this phone, it is more than fast enough for my everyday needs, and the photo quality (especially on gcam) is also pretty good. My main issue with this phone was under MIUI 12 - it had a couple of annoying bugs that will probably never get fixed:

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How to use Backblaze B2 as primary storage in Nextcloud

#en  #object-storage  How to use Backblaze B2 as primary storage in Nextcloud

To setup B2 as primary storage in Nextcloud you of course need to install NC first. For that, I used setup-nextcloud.php script - it is a nice, quick way of deploying nextcloud on shared hosting. Normally i would recommend setting it up as a docker container, but that will also work for testing. While installing Nextcloud just pick default storage place for now.

Creating bucket in Backblaze

If you don’t already have Backblaze account, you can register here. Backblaze gives 10GB of free storage + 1GB traffic per day for every user.
Note: make sure you select correct region, as of right now, accounts can’t be moved between regions

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