Please do not ask here if we could port your device. We won’t go and buy your device just to do the port. But you can try porting yourself, it is not that hard and we will help you wherever you get stuck in the chat. If that is not an option for you, consider sending a device to a community member who agrees to do the porting for you (check the milestones) or simply add it to the wish list.
!postmarketos@lemmy.ml , please join and help it make more awesome and bigger than the Reddit one :winking face:
I’m one of the core pmOS devs and although the other core devs aren’t Lemmy users yet, I’ll make sure to hang around, answer questions, moderate, etc.
For the people that don’t know about postmarketOS yet:
postmarketOS is a real Linux distribution for phones. We are sick of not receiving updates shortly after buying new phones. Sick of the walled gardens deeply integrated into Android and iOS. That’s why we are developing a sustainable, privacy and security focused free software mobile OS that is modeled after traditional Linux distributions. With privilege separation in mind. Let’s keep our devices useful and safe until they physically break!
It kind bums me out that there are so many devices available in the market, some only region locked, that hopping a FLOSS distro is almost impossible. By the time a device gets popular, in some way it is already outdated. Companies like Samsung make their system so dependent on their services that by the time you manage to flash an open source OS half of the phone’s features are defunct due to some hard-coded bs. More so with a low group of devs working their asses to make sure everything works well. Sorry about the rant but honestly I hope someday we can ditch these bloated data mining vanilla whatever brand you’re using and support free and open source. And all of this start with you guys, so my kudos to all de devs and best of luck on this endeavor!
We need more modular phones where the compute components can be upgraded independently of the rest of the phone. It doesn’t have to be separate socketed chips, at least just make the main board easily replaceable for god sake (also the battery). Bonus if the Processor, RAM and storage is on a different board than the radio electronics so you can upgrade to 5G or something on a phone that still has good compute performance. I know it’s electronically possible because custom built PCs exist, and so do standalone 5G cards. Thickness and weight be damned if you ask me.
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It kind bums me out that there are so many devices available in the market, some only region locked, that hopping a FLOSS distro is almost impossible. By the time a device gets popular, in some way it is already outdated. Companies like Samsung make their system so dependent on their services that by the time you manage to flash an open source OS half of the phone’s features are defunct due to some hard-coded bs. More so with a low group of devs working their asses to make sure everything works well. Sorry about the rant but honestly I hope someday we can ditch these bloated data mining vanilla whatever brand you’re using and support free and open source. And all of this start with you guys, so my kudos to all de devs and best of luck on this endeavor!
We need more modular phones where the compute components can be upgraded independently of the rest of the phone. It doesn’t have to be separate socketed chips, at least just make the main board easily replaceable for god sake (also the battery). Bonus if the Processor, RAM and storage is on a different board than the radio electronics so you can upgrade to 5G or something on a phone that still has good compute performance. I know it’s electronically possible because custom built PCs exist, and so do standalone 5G cards. Thickness and weight be damned if you ask me.
Sweet! thanks for making.
I’m really excited to see this! I’ll definitely be following this.
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Thanks for the tip! I’ve used Lemmy before federation was a thing and not since, so this is new to me.