Fixing a Bootlooping Nexus 5X

The Nexus 5X was a really great phone offered by Google back in 2015. My mother got one that year while I got a Nexus 6P. Both were pretty solid phones for a while. But, after a while, my phone's battery got so ridiculously sketchy that it wouldn't stay on for more than 15 minutes. There was a lawsuit about that, I think. There was also a lawsuit about the Nexus 5X bootlooping or simply not turning on. That's what my mother's phone was doing: not turning on. I recently tried to fix it using a combination of several methods I found on line. Did it work? Kind of.

Make Something That Isn't A Computer A Computer - Episode 3: Broken IP Camera

This one has been sitting on my shelf for a while now. I've talked about these kinds of cameras before, and now we have the opportunity to see what they're made of - both inside and out - to see what makes them tick, and to see how safe, performant, and reliable they are. We'll look at the firmware to see what's going on inside of it, strip it of all of its camera bits, and make it a generic computer that's somewhat reliable.