No thanks, I’d rather use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS

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buy privacy-first community driven phone look inside closed source OS with no recovery image and outdated dependencies

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
    46·
    17 hours ago

    But not everything works. One user is regularly posting updates (I think in [email protected]) about getting all devices of their FP to work. They are making progress but it’s still tedious work and if they ever lose interest or something happens to them it can be years until someone capable can pick up the torch.

    • dan@upvote.au
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Good to know! I haven’t been able to try one yet, so I wasn’t sure.

    • PM_ME_YOUR_BOOBIES@lemmy.world
      12·
      15 hours ago

      Man, I just want a pocketable device with Linux on it, with cell Bluetooth wifi gps antennas that can send and receive texts, calls and data. I don’t care about individual apps. If services can be reached via a browser, I’m good.

      • FoxAlive@lemmy.zip
        6·
        13 hours ago

        Ubuntu touch has a widr selection of devices that are 90% completed and at the bareminimum do what you want.

        You don’t even need a shitty slow phone. Some of the oneplus phones work and they run on a snapdragon 845-865 which are the golden standard when it comes to emulation and other harder processes. I think the 845’s source code got leaked too so often projects will only work for that chip.

    • dadarobot@lemmy.ml
      12·
      17 hours ago

      i really hope fairphone themselves picks it up. it would be incredible if fp7 (or 8, give them time) could be 100% (or close) compatible with linux out of the box. even if it required closed source blobs for like the radios or whatever. they can still ship with the option of regular android to not scare off the normies

      i put postmarket on my fp5 and it runs pretty damn well. with a little more polish it absolutly could be my daily driver. it is very close.

      i know its a lot to hope for, but i think faiphone is in a unique position to do this if they ever decided to.