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The starlite tablet from star labs is quite good. Wish all these tiny companies could work together somehow.
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I'll write something in the dev blog, thanks. We use Phosh, with some minor patches. Upstream Phosh is pretty good as it is!
I haven't been able to try Phosh because it's badly packaged on NixOS. Maybe one day I'll take a stab at fixing their package. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/278204
$500 price point is a lot for an open source enthusiast phone, especially one unknown. The Pine64 PinePhone is $150-$200, with similar hardware provenance, but various open source projects that might at least give better software longevity and software trustworthiness. https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/ An additional consideration: as much as we like and respect our global colleagues, unfortunately I coul…
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My biggest hold-up with that sort of work is that Facebook has previously threatened to ban users who use third-party clients, and then they have gone through with the threat. Is this no longer the case?
Has a well-behaved third party client ever been an issue?. A third party client that does things like retain deleted messages, report that read receipts are enabled but never actually sends them or other 'anti-social' behaviors is definitely asking to get banned.
[2]: In 2020, Facebook shutted down the NYU Ad Observatory by shutting down the Facebook accounts of Cybersecurity for Democracy team members Damon McCoy and Laura Edelson.
[1]: https://12challenges.substack.com/p/how-to-deal-with-receivi... [2]: https://cyber.nyu.edu/2021/08/21/facebook-disables-ad-observ...
Very tempting. What is the deal with play store integrity, i.e. is wallet (and some banking apps) supported?
Can we get a Linux smartphone that works before worrying about nonessential use cases? One the powers-that-be will never support until step zero is shipped at volume.
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i assume it would do video over the usb-c port like the pinephone and librem.
I don't like to assume anything when spending 500$. I have a One Plus 12, which has HDMI out, but it's like they didn't feel like finishing it. It's not really usable, it doesn't have any controls like Dex does.
I can't get their timeline page to load correctly: https://furilabs.com/timeline/
$500 price point is a lot for an open source enthusiast phone, especially one unknown. The Pine64 PinePhone is $150-$200, with similar hardware provenance, but various open source projects that might at least give better software longevity and software trustworthiness. https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/ An additional consideration: as much as we like and respect our global colleagues, unfortunately I coul…
> with similar hardware provenance no not at all Pine64 hardware is pretty crap (performance wise, very normal independent of the OS at that price point) Like you are comparing things like 3GB LPDDR3 SDRAM (Pine64) to 6GB LPDDR4X which is world apart (not only does it move from a "very tight on memory" to "somewhat acceptable memory" (very big deal) it also is much faster (~2x). Similar on the Pine64 you have 4 old l…
I meant provenance as in geopolitical. Later in the comment alludes to this more, and one way it can be a showstopper.
Sorry I was being vague, but it's awkward to mention, and unfortunate that there is ever any potential conflict.