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I work on this device. We are currently QAing the latest update with our community, which contains a lot of goodies and improvements shaped directly from commun
by GranPC 2y ago
I work on this device. We are currently QAing the latest update with our community, which contains a lot of goodies and improvements shaped directly from community feedback. You can see previous changelogs at https://furilabs.com/changelog https://furilabs.com/changelog
I am obviously a little biased, but this is probably the first Linux phone that people can actually use. Someone in our community switched from iPhone to this without much of an issue.
- rendaw 2y agoI don't care about running stuff out of the box, but NixOs support would be awesome!
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoDoes anyone have NixOS+Halium working?
- forgotacc240419 2y agoPossibly the OnePlus 6? This isn't an area I'm too well versed on though
- juliangoldsmith 2y agoThe OnePlus 6 can run mainline Linux, though apparently audio in calls drops sometimes. [0] 0: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchilada) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchil...
- Neikius 2y agoAnyone tried running KDE?
- GranPC 2y agoNot on this device in particular, but I've seen it done in the Droidian community. Similar steps should work, although I heard it's a little janky.
- jorvi 2y agoSince you guys are running Gnome, you might be interested in helping with (or funding) this native GTK WhatsApp client: https://github.com/tobagin/whakarere/ https://github.com/tobagin/whakarere/ Since these days something like >90% of people is on WhatsApp, it’s beyond quintessential to have a good WhatsApp client.
- GranPC 2y agoMy biggest hold-up with that sort of work is that Facebook has previously threatened to ban users who use third-party clients, and then they have gone through with the threat. Is this no longer the case?
- mpol 2y agoMeta also threatened app makers to start a lawsuit. Whatsapp Plus, Whatsup and Mitakuuluu people stopped on that threat. I don't see a reason why Meta would change their stance on this. There is now a law from the EU, I think it is the DMA, which could change things for people living in the EU regarding interoperability. I haven't read anything about practical follow-ups yet. By the way, only releasing source code as a blueprint might be fine, that happened before. I might remember it wrong, but it might be lame, the mp3 encoder.
- jorvi 2y agoI can't speak for everyone, but I've been using WhatsApp since ~2010, mostly the official client but with bouts of unofficial client usage, and I've never been banned. Probably not very detectable for Meta since it uses a wrapped webview, but I've been using ZapZap on Linux for a good while now and I haven't seen a ban yet.
- 1oooqooq 2y agoif something can happen and haven't happened to you, doesn't warrant a comment i believe. it doesn't help much to figure the data points for the cases were it does happen, since it's implied everyone to whom it have happened would have lots of opportunities to post comments it never happened before.
- tmikaeld 2y agoMy gripe with any of the open source phones is that id apps such as bankid don’t work without the secure token storage of Android. Is this Solvable?
- whizzter 2y agoYou could always protect the signing certificates in the apps with derived passwords, still the length of passkeys practically acceptable to type in on a phone is too short to safely protect a certificate vs a bruteforce attack without some kind of HW assisted storage. In the end it also boils down to what devices the BankID app providers are willing to support, I have a hard time seeing anything but iOS or Android devices being supported in the near future, Esp as Swedish BankID's now also requires NFC support to read the local police issued ID cards (had to get a new testing-device just due to this requirement). Note: BankID is the name of personal identity apps that support authentication and signatures in Sweden, Norway and Finland, the authentication is used to access a myriad of both public and private sites like tax office, unemployment, healthcare and gyms. The signatures done via the apps are generally accepted to be of as good legal standing as a signed paper.
- tuukkah 2y agoI've never heard of BankID in Finland - perhaps the common name is something else?
- usr1106 2y agoI would also have commented: Not supported in Finland. I think I have read articles that they tried to get marketing share, but AFAIK they have failed completely. On the positive side in Finland you can use SIM Toolkit for legally sanctioned 2FA (mobiilivarmenne). That should be much easier to implement without having Google involved.
- whizzter 2y agoInteresting, seems OP bank and Nordea allows logins/registrations from their own and other banks ID apps (all separate though). Vero and Kela allows logins from mobiilivarmenne and all the bank identifiers via the tunnistautuminen.suomi.fi service. I guess it's the opposite to what happened in Sweden where Telia was the only mobile provider that had an identity solution (that had any uptake), but afaik gave up due to the omnipresence of BankID that is a streamlined system supported by all the major banks. As a private sector application developer, would one integrate with MV, the suomi.fi portal or is it a fragmented system?
- mariusor 2y agoThe Sailfish OS phones are in some use, and they've been running full blown linux since 2013.
- m4rtink 2y agoUsing a Sailfish OS phone since 2013 - just saying. ;-)
- usr1106 2y agoRight, used 2 of them as my primary phone between 2015 and 2024 when the hardware broke not many weeks ago. Just recently ordered their new one, which is a bit cheaper than this Furi. Admittedly a risk purchase because not much is known about it yet. Also typing this on the ultra-cheap hardware made for the Indian market nearly a decade ago. Well, admittedly they have already announced to discontinue support and I never dared to carry it as my primary phone. Now the last weeks I was forced to use Android as my primary phone. Really a suprise what crappy piecemeal Android is compared to SailfishOS made by a tiny company struggling economically forever.
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- tuukkah 2y agoNokia N900 and N9 ran on Linux in 2009 and 2011. N900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900 N9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9
- stonogo 2y agoThe Motorola A1600 ran Linux in 2008. But even then people didn't want a flip phone.
- tuukkah 2y agoInteresting history! "Motorola became the first company to use Linux on a mobile phone when it released the Motorola A760 to the Chinese market on February 16, 2003." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MontaVista#Mobile_phones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MontaVista#Mobile_phones
- snapplebobapple 2y agoCan i run my own gui like sxmo on it easily?
- GranPC 2y agoEasily probably not the word I'd use. Anything that runs on wlroots should be doable with not a lot of effort. Beyond that, tricky. sxmo doesn't use hardware acceleration though so not too bad.
- seba_dos1 2y ago> this is probably the first Linux phone that people can actually use I'm actually using GNU/Linux phones since 2008. Never relied on Halium.