"May not be much" that's the largest single donation I've received. Thank you very much. And yeah I've been working on pie for which seems like it needs alot of the vendor blobs upgraded for pie before it will boot properly. I have it booting, just without anything showing on screen right now. I've upgraded everything on the display side (post processing, graphics drivers, system display manager) I've upgraded GPS which isn't working well right now and will probably need changed again. I need to update RIL /telephony blobs and Bluetooth. After that it should boot up and work. But that's still to be determined. I'm working on setting up my build environment with a different OS, Ubuntu isn't the best option so I've switched from that. I've tested PopOS which is a fork of Ubuntu optimized for gaming and that had it's own issues. Now I'm testing Manjaro which is a fork of Arch Linux, if this doesn't work out I'll just be switching to Lubuntu which is a lightweight flavor of Ubuntu. The less system resources used by the OS, the faster I should be able to compile.
If ya can get thru install, go straight arch... zero bloat.... Or go full LFS