2025 Priorities: Reliability, Audio, Cameras and More
postmarketos.org
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

A notable mention is https://ubports.com/en/ which is different from postmarketos in a sense that ubports uses old kernels with heavy patches. That means: good support for things, but difficult future.

PostmarketOS uses the newest kernels and tries to integrate their patches into mainline kernel, so that the reliability is maintained with all kernel developers.

  • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    give me ANYTHING that’s open-source and not tied to google or apple. i don’t care if it’s shit. i’m old. i just need a phone and maybe some pics and browsing.

      • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        While I’m a fan of GrapheneOS, I think it could still be considered “tied to Google” both due to it being based on Android, and also because it only runs on Google Pixel phones. Graphene focuses more on security, then on privacy, but not so much on reducing our dependency on Google’s software and/or hardware.

  • Dearth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Can i play minecraft on it though? Ive got a horse ranch that I’d really like to continue

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Phone functionality is the least of my problems, I need an open source replacement for Android Auto / Apple CarPlay.

    Not sure how that would work, you’d either have to emulate it to talk to the infotainment system, or get all the infotainment producers to add an open source layer… Sounds like a nightmare either way.