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I turned my streaming stick into a dumb app launcher, and that's all it should be
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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How? The article just says that you have to sideload it. How can sideloading an app brick your device?
few of years ago, i tried a method a of putting it into boot mode and using an app to root it and allow me to change it, not the same one the in article. i should have made that much clearer.