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MyPhone - Own your Phone
Continue sending donations to FSF. 🙌
Or have them us vote on one lol
Phony McPhoneface?
What’s wrong with “for some f*cks” ?
Marketing nerds hate to see a FOSS project name roll up 😎😎
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Don’t like LibreThing? Just use OpenThing. Or FreeThing. Or PeerThing if you’re weird.
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FreeCad is actually very decent.
I will jump immediately no second thoughts once any open phone comes with a good stylus.
`+ e-ink variant o.o if possible?
If someone comes up with full colour reflected e-ink with refresh rate better than 24 fps, absolutely.
That’s not going to happen with the current tech. Maybe someone comparable comes out with those specs.
So the wait continues
Theres the Daylight Computer, that has a 60fps display which is “like e-paper”. (eink is the propietary name, epaper is the general name of the tech)
I wish this tech could receive more funding for research and development.
Genuinely curious, what on earth do you need a stylus for? I’ve never really understood the use case
Taking impromptu notes is what I use it exclusively for. Also to draw quick diagrams and such. The diagrams drawing helps especially.
Just word note taking can be done with any old notes app. But sketches and diagrams. That’s where I use it most.
Oh fair. Diagrams makes a lot of sense
Yup. Try drawing a diagram and arrows with lines beginning and ending exactly where you want it intuitively with your finger. Not too mention you don’t need to unlock your phone, navigate to an app to do it. Just pop out your pen and go. No need to keep anyone waiting if you’re in the middle of discussing something.
Also one of the reasons I was looking to get a fold because the screen real estate was lacking. But they took away pen support in 7 so what the heck.
How open source can they go? Is there a capable open source processor without propriatary backdoors yet? Will it use RISCV?
I hope it goes well… but imo firmware blobs in LineageOS shouldn’t be the highest priority.
What should be the highest priority in terms of being able to use a fully FOSS phone? I feel we already have FOSS alternatives for most things that make the phone usable.
Perhaps free hardware might be top, but the S in FSF is Software and being able to avoid non-free software would be close 2nd, imho.
from their article it seems like they’re planning to reverse engineer firmware blobs for a phone that already runs a mostly free android distro (LineageOS). I know the importance of free firmware and stuff, but honestly, that phone is freer than most phones in the market. My opinion is that they should invest(?) in non-Android linux mobile OSes instead.
I think it makes sense to choose a phone that’s freer than most phones as a start, then fill up the gaps to make it fully free. As things are all phones have blobs (even non-Android ones).
I expect non-Android linux mobile OSes can also benefit from the reverse engineered firmware.
I get what you mean, but may be this is a start. I guess, this work can help them understand phone architecture better and the community can build upon their work to improve non-Android Linux mobile distros. However, I think this will help projects like replicant, droidian and grapheneos.
