Does ubuntu touch or postmarket os work reliably on the fairphone 6 now, or is this still just components working? Is it possible to use it as a daily driver?
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? Nonprofits involve a specific governance structure that may not be optimal, especially for small operations.
That is very region specific, in the Netherlands it's quite easy to operate a non-profit
I m quite sure that even in the Netherlands, you will have a lot of obligation and reporting that will be imposed on you because of that. To ensure that the non profit is not used as a for profit.
Even in the day to day, like for him to pay himself a salary or do expenses, things could be tricky as administration could easily consider as personal abuse of funds of a non profit.
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#54This aged well
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#56Awesome! There are so many cool things we could be doing with our phones if they weren't locked to a single OS
Genuinely curious, like what cool things?
Like using your phone as a desktop computer, when it's connected to a screen and keyboard and runs a full desktop OS. Having a full access to all desktop apps, development environments. Also this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201496.
Also, choosing the OS means freedom to choose the interface you like or develop your own (or to pay somebody to do that for you). Freedom to not be in walled gardens.
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#57This is awesome stuff. Fully mainstream Linux with a normal userland running on a modern handset with all features will unlock a tremendous amount of change once it's there. Things like running a distributed database for a community on top of the devices they own, hopefully also running true mesh networking.
It's already unlocked on other more open phones. Why do you think this time it will be different?
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#60I was recently working on porting PMOS to Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro, though switched to NixOS due to much faster update cycle. I got much further than I thought I would (though this was mostly possible due to LLMs without them it would waaaay longer), fixed everything including cameras except mic working in calls. Still bummered about that because I really wanted to try daily driving linux phone but alas not lucky.
I wish alternatives like Fairphone or other linux phones step up a game. They have too high a price and too low specs.