@gronostaj You can get Android Pie running (albeit slowly) on devices with as little as 768MB RAM. Android actually has a low-end device flag that you can toggle (if you're rooted) or set (as a developer) in build.prop. That, along with stripping down a few bits that won't work on older devices, would get it running.

@seraphimsystems If you get this working, it sounds like the kind of thing you should put on XDA. A lot of people are already amazed at people like CarbonROM putting Android Pie on devices like the Xperia Z3 and Galaxy S5 (both 2014 phones). Also it might be a good starting point to see if the device has a forum space over at XDA, if anyone's made a ROM for it in the past they usually provide github links.

@irene PotPlayer is nice, but the controls are very confusing. VLC, while not completely perfect in terms of controls, does do it a lot better. I tried rebinding PotPlayer's controls to be more VLC-like, but I ended up missing stuff like being able to control audio delay and shuffle through the video frame-by-frame easily. Maybe I'll revisit PotPlayer, but for now it seems very lacking in features.

On the UI side, VLC still wins. PotPlayer, while looking prettier, seemed to have a lot of stuff hidden in menus that didn't make sense. I'd rather stick with VLC, because even though it doesn't look amazing, it works well.

My list:

EDM (mostly Dubstep and DnB)
Nightcore
Happy Hardcore
a bunch of assorted anime themes/openings (and some just generally good weeb music)
TheFatRat (like almost every song he's made)
Assorted OMFG songs
Various game soundtracks (DmC, Rocket League and a couple others in the same kind of space)

There's a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff in there too, but mostly just 1 or 2 songs that I like out of an entire genre.

@lxmcf I found JerryRigEverything's video on the iPad Pro, and a few days later the Surface Pro 6 to be an actual representation of the devices. The iPad is, as he accurately put it, "a phone but in tablet form" while the Surface is "a full PC, but in tablet form". This is evident even in the hardware, where Apple has no internal braces or anything to reinforce the iPad (meaning it bends quite easily around the two weak points in the center) while MS has heat pipes, the kickstand, and a bunch of other reinforcement points in the chassis, as well as not putting holes in key weak areas (as any smart designer would do)

But yes, people are showing off the iPad Pro as if it can actually do all the things an actual computer can. It still runs iOS, and the last time I checked, iOS was a mobile OS that doesn't have split screen or multi-window, a file manager for files on the local device, support for keyboard/mouse, or even proper USB-OTG support (you have to buy a special USB with an app).

When it comes to older Sony phones (I'm writing this from my Z3 right now), you should always use a locked BL tool for just a quick root (personally I install XZDR and make a NANDroid, but if you can get Titanium to work then that's also good). One rule I have stuck to for the past 5 years though, is that before I buy a phone I check XDA for any existing ROMs, and look on the manufacturer's page to see if there are open source archives available. Only then will I decide to buy the phone. I cannot run anything that isn't at least AOSP based (because it just annoys the hell out of me), so this immediately removes 90% of the market's stock ROMs. The only phones I think I'd use with the stock ROM are Pixel and Nokia. Still, older phones are usually at the top of my list, and anything that bears a Samsung logo is second from the bottom, just above Apple. Also, most apps these days have Google cloud backup available should you have it enabled. Still sucks losing data though.

In all honesty, these days Samsung has gone to shit. They used to be good, the S4 is still one of my favourite phones, and it's almost 5 years old. But the S8 is trash. Nice hardware, yeah, but then you get Samsung locking it down, closing the source to stop custom ROM developers from making it actually a decent phone, and forcing you to use touchwiz, which has been cancer since, well, touchwiz. I cannot live without the flexibility of an AOSP-based ROM, and I currently use Resurrection Remix as my daily driver, because it just works so well. Having to deal with preinstalled Facebook and Microsoft apps on Samsung, when I only use Google, not to mention that Bixby cannot be turned off, and the dedicated button can only be "remapped" via an accessibility task. The few good points of Samsung for me are just thrown out the window by all the bad points/issues that Samsung has. In all honesty, just get a Google Pixel.