AOKP WAS MY JAM! That's what I ran all the time as my daily. I'd usually be at parties in college installing new ROMs being the meme that they don't know how cool AOSP is. 

The MIUI UI was just a bit too different for my taste. I remember Paranoid's name but can't remember much about the mod itself. I also liked CarbonROM later but shortly after that probably stopped messing with them when I started using more Samsung devices. Those jerks made it a PITA to do anything fun. 

 Now, you'd have a easier time breaking into Fort Knox than getting past the Samsung bootloader.  

 Historically they always had exploits found eventually allowing people to bypass and root. Is that no longer the case? I haven't paid attention to this space in a very long while. 

 I use a S22 Ultra, and a Note 10+ and I haven't found any methods of unlocking the bootloader. There was someone on XDA who was running a service to unlock the Note 10, but he shut that down and there doesn't appear to be any other reliable self-service method available. And I haven't seen anything compatible with the S22.  

 Yeah they used to have decent exploits but they've done a good job over the years of lockign things up around the time they started intoducing Knox 

 Hell, I remember when Samsung had a website where you put your serial number in and it gave you a code that would unlock the bootloader. They're not doing that anymore!  

 I think we talked about AOKP before. I remember showing someone a pic of Roman and I 😂 

 It's very possible! I have the memory of a goldfish