"Down goes Frasier, Down goes Frasier!"

Found a tutorial on the xda forums to downgrade my Xperia PLAY from .285 back to .270. Amusingly, I couldn't make it work in windows, but the Linux version worked perfectly.

So once again, goodbye Star Battalion, Asphalt Adrenaline, Crash Bandicoot, and the rest of that shit.

But, once again, the dilemma is that now that I have enough space to install what I really want, once I install what I really want, another space deficit is created.

Yeah bitches!

Finally rooted my Xperia Play using the ZergRush method, and then was free to delete all those memory stealing apps and games that were driving me crazy. Android has got to be the one and only proprietary Linux distro, which goes against everything Linux stands for. Thankfully, there are developers (in the 90s, they were called hackers) who are hard at work looking for exploits.

The best part about using the ZergRush method is the Linux port. Because Linux supports nearly all USB protocols right outta the box, there is no need to install special drivers. Another great thing about ZergRush it's that it runs standalone. No need to install Eclipse or the Android SDK.

Once rooted, I installed Titanium Backup, and uninstalled all those pesky games and apps I'll never play or use, like Star Battalion, Sims 3, Dungeon Defenders, AT&T Navigator, etc.

Now, I must say, when I say "Yeah, Bitches!", as much as I love Sony, AT&T, and Google, I'm calling them bitches for telling me I have to live with their bloatware. No, thank you.

Oh great! F***in' MS acquired Skype!

While I don't consider this to be a coffin nail, this is just one more thing that may make Linux less mainstream friendly.

MS' acquisition of Skype may end support of Linux altogether. I say "may" because MS recently delivered a Hotmail app for Android, which as we all know is simply Google's idea of a mobile distro of Linux. This app was free, and as far as I know, there is no paid version. This really doesn't jive with MS' capitalist gameplan. (Can you say UEFI? Of course you can).

With all the news about MS and other companies attempting to put a stranglehold on Google, Android, and in some measure, the open source community, you have to wonder if this acquisition is one of many fingers around FOSS' throat.

Let's see how long Skype will be available for Linux...