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There sadly isn't a single viable option for a Linux mobile phone out there. - Purism runs ancient hardware, charges way too much and has questionable business
by MrDresden 1y ago
There sadly isn't a single viable option for a Linux mobile phone out there.
- Purism runs ancient hardware, charges way too much and has questionable business ethics.
- Pine64 has equally bad hardware but reasonable prices. I don't like the Hong-Kong connection though. Not sure how the security patching environment is in practice.
The only option on the table as I see it is buying from the devil and installing GrapheneOS.
- opengrass 1y agohttps://postmarketos.org/ https://postmarketos.org/
- john61 1y agoThere is also jolla / sailfishos built by ex Nokia engineers. The Russians forked it and are useing it in government / industry.
- Klonoar 1y agoFuriLabs has shipped a usable device for going on two hardware releases now. Yes, it currently builds on top of Hallium. Anyone who thinks this should be a sticking point has their head in the sand; the device and effort is how you get a usable ecosystem rolling.
- fsflover 1y ago> Purism runs ancient hardware https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/ https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/ > charges way too much https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656355 > questionable business ethics They retrospectively changed their return policy in order to not get bankrupt. AFAIK everything is find now. I'm a happy owner of Librem 5 btw.