I’m betting on micro stroke and some partial face paralysis. It was rumored he had micro strokes before. This time is visible so they have to hide his face for some time hoping he will get better.

Oh shit. I’m better at installing Linux than Linus. That’s freaking amazing!

So you think politicians actually want better educated voters but don’t have patience for it? That’s cute.

Most of they will but hopefully we will still have projects like PinePhone or Fairphone that will support it.

As I said, I don’t think we can expect PostmarketOS to work on normal phones but looking at the table they have PinePhone figured out. My hope is that we will soon see something like PinePhone but with proper specs that will actually be usable and that some phone makes like Fairphone will help make PostmaketOS run on their phones. Couple of properly supported models is all we really need and I hope it’s couple of years away, not a decade.

No one here is talking about regular people. Regular people will keep using stock Android.

UBports still relies on Android kernel and services. Custom ROMs are such a small part of the Android ecosystem that I didn’t think Google will go after them yet they did. Can we be sure in a couple of years they will not try to destroy Android based distros like UBports?

I also don’t really like the entire idea behind UBports. It’s so heavily modified you can’t even easily run native Linux apps so you’re limited to Ubuntu Touch apps. As a developer I’m not really interested in learning completely new framework that supports only one platform. We have solutions to create cross platform Linux-Android apps so I can move my apps from Android phone to PostmarketOS without any work, they already work there.

So I’m supporting PostmarketOS and I really hope it will be usable when my Pixel phone dies. If not I will switch to something Halium based. What else is there to do?

Yes but you will also stop getting security fixes. After some time it gets risky.

Here you can see current state: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

In theory it will just be another Linux able to run on everything Linux supports + Android hardware. Honestly I don’t know if it will ever run on common modern phones but it should at least be possible to run it on more “open” phones like Fairphone or PinePhone.

You’re pissed about it? Visit here: https://opencollective.com/postmarketOS

IMHO that’s our best shot. Totally Google free, mainstream Linux kernel.

Yeah, I have zero experience with 3D printing and all this so for me it’s always a too big of a project. Maybe one day I have a bit more time and can get to it

I hope you didn’t throw out the priv and key. In working order they are ~€150 each on ebay.

I did but all of them had some hardware issues. Still, if I knew I can use them for other projects I would just kept them in some box but I realized it after I got rid of them.

Where did you get the keyboard? I had a Q10 (and Priv, and Key) but I’m an idiot and I always throw the phones away weeks before discovering their parts may still be useful.

Are you able to use it with a case?

You’re actually using one? I saw similar project (or this one) some time ago. I also found BB10 keyboards modified to just act as USB keyboard and even tried to buy one but the supply was very limited and they would be gone in a matter of hours. And I have zero experience with JLCPCBs. And all phones are so big now that attaching extra keyboard to them wouldn’t be that practical. I would kill for a modern N900 type phone.

How are you using a keyboard in a browser on Android? I didn’t use keyboard since BlackBerry KEY.

lack of keyboard shortcuts

What keyboard shortcuts are missing from FF?

That’s what I said. Typing things into a chat doesn’t prove intent. For the same reason google is not monitoring searches and sending them to police. You can type anything you want into a search box. It’s never a crime.

Wrong. An attempt to commit a crime is a crime. Planning it is not. I can plan to rob a bank all I want. You would have to prove intent. Typing things in a chat doesn’t prove intent.

All of this is so fucking bizarre I can’t even wrap my head around it anymore. It’s a bot. How the fuck is it suddenly killing people? How is talking to a bot a crime now? Did everyone lose their minds?

Thanks for that. I had a discussion about it in another thread but without concrete numbers.

you are mostly paying for a boutique manufacturing process

You’re also in a way supporting an NGO lobbying for repairability and sustainability. We’ve seen progress on this front in EU and it’s possible Fairphone made some impact by showing what is technically achievable. It’s hard for Google to say that replaceable battery simply can’t be done when you have another company doing it.

Personally I find $300-$400 donation to be too much. If they would establish donations plan I would probably support them. I do donate to Signal from time to time and other OS projects regularly. But I’m happy that enough people are willing to donate to keep them going.