Thank you for raising awareness about planned obsolescence.
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Hacker: that's why we fight for customer's rights to tear Mobilek's body, to pull out his guts, to rewire his brain, to watch him suffer and, eventually, die.
Mr mobilek needs to receive a good custom rom and become a rebel
Literally no modern mainstream smartphones support bootloader unlock. I just ordered one without it, because I'm giving up on finding one that supports it for a decent price. Fuck me in 8 years. Or I could keep using my Redmi 4x with ocasional (unfixable) motherboard issues.
What about Pixels? My Pixel 6 and 7 Pro were both easy enough.
Still waiting for Mobile Linux to come to these wonderful devices.
Pixel 3a running Linux like a charm, and eternally supported, never out of date :3
Pixel 6 and 7, on the other hand, are about to hit EOL because Google won't support them, neither will Graphene, not sure about Lineage, and Linux is not there yet.
Update: LineageOS should remain available!
postmarket->nura is getting close. They have working camera drivers recently, (not to say high quality) I think VOLTE and battery is still dodgy.
Speaking from experience with Pixel 3a on Nura with KDE Plasma Mobile
- Camera works very poorly, but hey, yes it works
- Don't use VoLTE, regular calls work flawlessly. The phone does wake up correctly upon receiving the call.
- Battery is brilliant, the only thing still lacking is fast charge support. Otherwise, fantastic battery life, and correct battery charge indication.
Yep, but the devices are relatively shitty (apart from the hardware security). Also I'm not buying a 300β¬ device for 400+.
Not even the ones from motorola? They used to be easy to unlock. What about the cheaper ones from generic unknown brands?
Or I could keep using my Redmi 4x with ocasional (unfixable) motherboard issues.
I have that exact same one, but I managed to fuck up with the mi account and be unable to unlock it. My poor mobilek...
Yep, there are still motos, pixels and global oneplus devices (but my budget was 300β¬, while I spent 400 :-( and a chinese import redmi was the only thing competitive in that price range (never thought I'd be spending so much money on anything smaller than a car)).
Also, hurry up with the bl unlock (since xiaomi is apparently discontinuing the legacy miui unlock).
Xiaomi basically already discontinued the bl unlock as they put a ridiculously low daily unlock quota, like 1000 worldwide. The quota gets burned within seconds
from generic unknown brands?
Then you will not be able to find a custom rom because of that
Even if they did the carriers control what devices they'll allow on the network.
Not in the EU (apart from some French fuckwads) at least. But in the US, UK, yes.
I'm not going to even pretend it's a mainstream brand (or a decent price depending on model, even when buying secondhand) but the Sony Xperia phones do allow bootloader unlock. Lineage OS has support for some of the slightly older models that arnt getting official support anymore iirc. Although I haven't messed with roms personally (not super techy compared to probably literally anyone else here) But it is something to keep in mind if you ever see one around for a price you'd be happy with.
Canβt imagine a world without roblobs
It's the best app!
Soon it will be the only app as all apps we know today become subapps inside of Roblox
Dang. Can't wait to pay my taxes in Robux
I thought Mobilek was super evil tho
poor mr mobilek :(
if only my mobilek supported all these fancy alternative OSes. I suspect a used/new Pixel for Graphene is coming my way soon
I love this comic.
Time for a book
"Don't make it hard"
That's what he said
Cuck porn
Will loonix let mobilek run roblox again? Will we ever find out?
I wonder what role SteamOS will have in this. I kind of this manufactures should take on the responsibility of making their hardware more open to different operating system.
If I were delusional I'd say America should have an Anti-trust investigation into this.
Perhaps the EU will do something.
Valve is not the good guy. They only do what they do to stop being dependent on microsoft and make more money in turn. They don't care about openness - that's all just a byproduct.
but the yacht man reminds me of my grandfather
There's a microsoft phone now? Wait, the comic is about desktop computers?
I miss my nokia
Thank you for creating content!
Thank you for creating sad content!
(Mobilek are bad and should be destroyed, never forget)


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