▲ 670 ▼ We should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touch (www.extremetech.com) submitted 6 months ago by viov@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml 113 comments fedilink hide all child comments Its always good to try!
[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (4 children) I'f put my money on a repairable Huawei phone permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago (2 children) These fuckers don't let you unlock the bootloader, so they can burn for all I care. So far, google have the best record, then oneplus, fairphone and alike (easy to unlock the bootloader, no point or ability to relock with custom keys), then mb xiaomi (beg corporate overlords for the ability to unlock the bootloader on YOUR FUCKING PHONE) and slmsung (loose the option to unlock the bootloader on newer firmware versions, loose security features on older ones), and then huawei/crapple who don't let you unlock the bootloader at all permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Well I understand your point but don't think google will remain the 1st in your rankings for much time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago Idk, honestly. On one hand, they're on the clear path to enshitify android into a wannabe walled garden. On the other hand, the bootloader is still unlockable and relockable, and I personally liked what they did with pixel 10 in terms of repair ability permalink fedilink source parent [–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago There is also shiftphone. Thats less extreme to fairphone when it comes to fairness but very repairable permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago (2 children) These fuckers don't let you unlock the bootloader, so they can burn for all I care. So far, google have the best record, then oneplus, fairphone and alike (easy to unlock the bootloader, no point or ability to relock with custom keys), then mb xiaomi (beg corporate overlords for the ability to unlock the bootloader on YOUR FUCKING PHONE) and slmsung (loose the option to unlock the bootloader on newer firmware versions, loose security features on older ones), and then huawei/crapple who don't let you unlock the bootloader at all permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Well I understand your point but don't think google will remain the 1st in your rankings for much time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago Idk, honestly. On one hand, they're on the clear path to enshitify android into a wannabe walled garden. On the other hand, the bootloader is still unlockable and relockable, and I personally liked what they did with pixel 10 in terms of repair ability permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Well I understand your point but don't think google will remain the 1st in your rankings for much time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago Idk, honestly. On one hand, they're on the clear path to enshitify android into a wannabe walled garden. On the other hand, the bootloader is still unlockable and relockable, and I personally liked what they did with pixel 10 in terms of repair ability permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago Idk, honestly. On one hand, they're on the clear path to enshitify android into a wannabe walled garden. On the other hand, the bootloader is still unlockable and relockable, and I personally liked what they did with pixel 10 in terms of repair ability permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago There is also shiftphone. Thats less extreme to fairphone when it comes to fairness but very repairable permalink fedilink source parent