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What FOSS software do you wish existed? (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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A federated internet archive, I'm wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

due to shitty hardware restrictions

regulatory restrictions?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, from what I understand, hardware manufacturers need to ensure that no one uses the mobile chip to send on reserved frequencies. And the way they typically do that, is with a proprietary, undocumented driver for the mobile chip. So, you basically need to reverse engineer that for each mobile chip, to be able to make calls and such...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    Yes because of isps

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    can you explain how?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Most isps do not support linux mobile

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    isn't mobile linux just linux but you use it on mobile devices? SIM cards have the same architecture to read, and I can use wifi on linux just fine, what do you mean?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    ISPs need to approve mobile data antennae. Any phone they don't like is not approved. Using an existing antenna just brings the problem of propietary drivers.

    Remember, your PC does not have mobile data (even if it is a laptop).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    can you give me some example on ISPs approving mobile antenna? For the proprietary drivers, they can reverse engineer to bring the needed functionalities of the antenna.

    like trem said, I think the problem is because of mobile chipsets not giving the documentation to the public and devs have to reverse engineer it, which they need to own a mobile that has that chip set in order to to so

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