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Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone (linuxiac.com)
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The project, developed in partnership with veteran free software developer Rob Savoye, aims to create a fully free and open mobile platform, from the firmware to the operating system.

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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have an original PinePhone. The phone itself is horribly outdated and slow, but the software itself (Phosh+Gnome) is suprisingly okay. Given a good enough phone (as in hardware) I can see myself actually using it and not being annoyed more than I was with early Androids.

Unfortunately what I understand is that FSFE doesn't intend to do hardware, only software platform, so I wonder whether they'll come up with anything interesting.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Running PostmarketOS on hardware such as the Oneplus 6T (which is 8 years old now) shows that you could truly have dog shit cheap hardware for this. As long as you have decent driver support for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I'm just over here, mad that I have a Oneplus 7 pro lying around and there's no port for that. For none of the 3 distros I could find that support the 6T. So I'm suspecting there's some reason why it's just not feasible.

    It's an epic phone and it could be so good with a lighter weight OS than Android.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm making this comment with a OnePlus 6T I got 8 years ago when it was new and it has never needed repairs, so I wouldn't exactly call it dogshit. Even the battery still lasts a couple days of heavy use before needing a charge, though that may have more to do with my efforts in reducing software overhead over the years. (Also making sure almost everything I ever view on it has an AMOLED dark background)

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