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>> it's got a ton of problems by contemporary standards > No shit Sherlock. You're supporting my point. A device which first shipped seven years ago still requ
by handedness 2mo ago
>> it's got a ton of problems by contemporary standards
> No shit Sherlock.
You're supporting my point. A device which first shipped seven years ago still requiring someone to properly configure a post-processing software stack to get viable pictures out of it (with no path to viable video) kind of makes my point for me. That the hardware can perform significantly better with post-processing is more of an indictment of the overall device than it is an endorsement of the camera hardware itself.
For me, from a camera standpoint (among others) the device isn't good enough to be a viable alternative to switch from Android (the post's topic), or from iOS (likely the most commonly used device family by HN readers). Even with your stack. As I said, your photos are the most convincing I've seen, at least the ones in the most forgiving circumstances. It's not personal.
As switcher targets go, the Librem 5 is a poor one. Ask any normal person to do what you call basic to get them looking like a midrange camera from a decade prior. And yet, when switching comes up, the same few suggest it as if it's a genuinely good option for anything but very niche cases.
No break needed. That's it.
- seba_dos1 2mo ago> A device which first shipped seven years ago still requiring someone to properly configure a post-processing software stack to get viable pictures out of it (with no path to viable video) kind of makes my point for me. Except it doesn't. The photos I showed are as they come by default out-of-the-box on the default OS the device ships with. You're just making things up again.
- handedness 2mo agoI'll put it more succinctly: there's no photo on that page I'd be satisfied with out of an $800 device in 2026. If it was actually strong at everything else, it may well have a shot as a second device, but the Librem 5 doesn't come close there.
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