

Oh, yeah, the MediaTek chipset complicates things. MediaTek ROMs started going down hard lately specifically because building ROMs for them now is very difficult.
And yeah, archived builds are a pretty good option, actually. https://lineage-archive.timschumi.net/ is the biggest archive that I know, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have any images for gold
Yeah, probably this. And the increase in temperature simply made the conditions bearable when they got outside.
Could they have also maybe just… flown over there? Insect migrations like this can happen, but I don’t think it’s possible on such a scale, even for mosquitoes.