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All fair enough. Edited to add: The people saying, actually, my device also reboots fairly often, do not inspire confidence.

I actually have one that does. But you're making my point for me: that's how bad they are as phones. A laptop with an iffy phone situation would at least be a highly useful laptop,…

So, a 2016 flagship phone available for purchase in 2016 benchmarks at about 2x the Librem 5, not factoring in the noticeably more powerful GPU, as you mention. The Pixel 3a, a mid…

I'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 sho…

> It's sad that these two devices have derailed open phones so much. Agreed. Those two have made such a mess of things that I think if something interesting does sprout up, it'll c…

It's difficult to frame it as something that was mid-range in its time, as many, maybe most original backers probably didn't receive theirs until much later. COVID certainly compou…

>> 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 prop…

> Thanks for the first link. I think I agree with everything written there. You're welcome, happy to help. > This is just the opinion of the GrapheneOS team. I don't think it can b…

It would be completely unreasonable for me to suggest such a thing. You can tell that I didn't because I would have written "all tradeoffs," not "major tradeoffs," before I provide…

Every time someone says we need a better open Linux phone, the Librem 5 and PinePhone crowd shows up to tell us not to believe our lying eyes, that our standards (which are already…

In that thread you're stating just months ago that Librem 5 owners no longer need to manually develop raw photos to get decent results. Truly atrocious video quality. I say the cam…

Me: We need a phone. You: We're there. It's a bad phone. This thing works as a laptop replacement. You'll even be able to use it as a trackpad some day! This reads like satire. You…

Then read more closely. I didn't say the components existed a decade ago. The performance level of that SoC would have been challenging to get what typical phone users would consid…

A Camp Snap is more than good enough to have fun with. That's an entirely different requirement. I had an iPhone 11 Pro Max in 2019 and its camera quality was miles ahead of the li…

Beyond the forgiving lighting, note the huge amount of post-hoc post-processing being done.

My guess is he's talking about the management engine. Which, if one's comfortable with the HAP bit flip as a solution to that problem, then one should arguably also be comfortable …

> I haven't heard much bad about Purism. That's surprising. They burned through a ton of goodwill by holding many people's money for many years, while being non-responsive to depos…

I wish these devices were ready to be viable alternatives for anyone not possessing a religious extremist's level of zeal for it, but they's still so far from ready. It's a shame, …

No, it's not even close to good enough. Beyond the photos, the video he posted would have been disappointing in 2003.

Agreed. Despite endless assertions from someone that Pine and Purism are where we should place our hope for better mobile devices, I can't put my trust in either company. Their tra…

I've gotten the same from FedEx several times over the years. It never gets less weird.

Compare and contrast: https://www.cape.co/our-features https://www.phreeli.com/privacy See also: https://samdbrice.medium.com/cape-cellular-the-fbi-honeypot-... https://news.ycombi…

> Zuckerberg may be arrogant as hell, think he can bully governments into bending over backwards for him, governments have guns and get to arrest (and have in the past arrested) an…

Asahi is a very cool project, and worthwhile if someone goes into it well aware of the major tradeoffs they're making, including reduced hardware functionality and support, which i…