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You cannot reliably "throw the propietary firmware to the trash and/or maybe burn the telephony module, either phisically or disable it with AT commands" as the
by notorandit 2y ago
You cannot reliably "throw the propietary firmware to the trash and/or maybe burn the telephony module, either phisically or disable it with AT commands" as there is no or too little documentation available. Moreover, a device with no communication mean is as useful as a bike to a fish.
Again, all of those non-proprietary software is for the CPU. The rest of the hardware requires those blobs.
- anthk 2y ago>a device with no comm... For you, maybe. If wireless works, I could install all the required packages for thinkering and then disconnect it forever for offline programming/gaming or even news reading, or as a nice mp3/video/ebook reader plus a cool ScummVM interpreter to play point and click games. Not everyone needs a 4G connection.
- notorandit 2y agoWifi and bluetooth won't work without the blob. Not even the touch. This slips why I am puzzled. Maybe just USB. But I wouldn't bet on that.
- anthk 2y agoUSB OTG adapter + a cheap atheros device. Also, on wireless, most of the modules are on the non-free mainline Linux kernel, but owning GNU/Linux + prop fw device it's far better than an opaque Android one even if PmOS is not fully free as GNU distros state. From there it's easy to scale up on a freedom ladder. Also, PmOS it's not just about smartphones. Once the Tokio Techbook support gets better, you can repurpose cheap $30-40 dollars ARM netbooks with PmOS as a light hacking/writting/multimedia device with something like cwm/dwm/fluxbox and light software such as mplayer, mupdf, netsurf...