I had an external WiFi adapter lying around. I enabled its driver in the kernel, recompiled it, placed the WiFi firmware in recovery_ramdisk/vendor/firmware, and wired it up via /sys/module/firmware_class/parameters/path

Result: Out-of-the-box wlan0, the moment it's plugged in..!

This phone has 2GB RAM, 16GB storage, and a Qualcomm SoC scoring ~150 (single-core) and ~450 (multi-core) on Geekbench.

Look at this htop screenshot - even this weak potato sits at 0% CPU idle! 🥔

On Android, idle CPU usage hovers around 30–50% for absolutely nothing.

This is Alpine Linux, booted directly from a lightweight TWRP recovery environment, with full networking.

Most people see these phones as phones. I see them as Android slapped on top of an ARM64 development board🗿

So I nuked Android and used that space for a lightweight Linux container instead.

@Droidspaces