This is great news!
For those unaware, Google is continuously enacting policies that are closing down the open environment of Android, and I fear this will significantly harm projects like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, and others.
If you can spare a couple dollars, please consider throwing some money at PostmarketOS or any other mobile Linux project you like.
are you aware of any articles/documentation that can make a noob aware of how these projects compare to each other?
i’m going to eos on a nothing phone in the near future, but that’s only because i can find step-by-step documentation with exact hardware and eos version on how to do so thanks to Lemmy.
the newest device on that list is 5 years old. is this project still active?
yup it is very active. u can follow the account here: @postmarketOS
as for why the devices seem old: it takes a lot of work trying to get the old android kernel working with the mainline kernel. its much harder than lineageos as we dont reuse the old android kernel and a lot of work needs to be done on both the kernel and userspace
basically one person is doing an entire engineering departments work
if ud like the newest phone, u can get a fairphone 5
Just donated some money to them. Haven’t even tested a build yet but I’m excited based on what I’ve seen over the years.
are there any decent devices that have a fully working pmos build?
The best ones where basically everything works as intended are: OnePlus 6, OnePlus 6T, Xiaomi POCO F1
I have a OnePlus 6T and the only missing pieces are calls and camera. Both work, but not reliably yet. Everything else is pretty much there.
also have a one-plus 6t, mms and SMS are also spotty
rooting for the guys although I don’t want none of them things. I run my device without a modem on (hopefully I disabled it correctly) and I want it to run like my other shit runs - I turn it on when I want it, no doing shit in the background nobody asked it to, syncing to the clown, none of that.
the results are awesome - I get like days of standby out of a severely degraded battery that can’t manage a whole day under android. still, I understand that other people need this stuff. for me, SMS and calls utilizing the utterly broken, insecure, and definitely compromised telecom infra shouldn’t be a thing in 2025.
syncing to the clown, none of that
What did that clown ever do to you?
stole it off jwz
i’d rather sync to a clown than a cloud tbh. the clown is more likely to keep my data safe
Replace “clown” with “AI”.
if there was any voice protocol with anywhere near the adoption rate of phone service I could understand this
