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I feel so proud of postmarketOS! I’ve been using them for 2nd life uses for phones, tablets, and chromebooks with very minimal problems. It’s like having an obscure band you follow all of a sudden getting mentioned everywhere and I couldn’t be happier for the project (like the 3rd time on Lemmy this week alone I’ve seen them mentioned).
If you have some scrap equipment throw it on and report your findings! There’s a lot of testing that needs done and information needs to flow. I’ve done a “recipe” notebook with an old chromebook, a tablet for easy video viewing I can send videos to (instead of making my partner come to the comp), and like 3 other devices that I haven’t finished with but pmOS will be a part of it.
Join their testing team if you have devices that aren’t listed! Unlike most requirements, if it’s not listed that just means it probably hasn’t been tested…not that it doesn’t work on your device. (they could probably also use some editors for their text instructions, it’s quite back and forth with links trying to find proper instructions).
@Cataphract is there any **brand new** device sold with #postmarketOS ? @cypherpunks
Nope, only with other linux phone brands
PostmarketOS is like the name says for EoL devices, not brand new ones
Woah cool, this is the first time I’ve actually read about postmarketOS, other than seeing it mentioned occasionally, and it’s pretty neat to see it coming along!
I’d love to try it, but it supports no phones after 2021 and those are getting scarce on top of being “lackluster” to say the least.
I once purchased a Lenovo A6000 as it’s community supported, but my unit seems to be unsupported revision and I just bricked it so hard on so many levels it’s now impossible to rescue it without directly connecting to the board, which might be more costly than getting another one.
Soon… Immutable postmarketOS
Declaritive postmarketOS
Re-write in Rust?
finally! I was on edge
I am impressed! Thanks for the work and for sharing the good news.
Whoa whoa whoa
What is dis?
Systemd
I’m out
I wonder how many GrapheneOS users are there. Not sure why none of the existing OEMs are interested in a collab, is it really that low? You have world class security experts willing to work with you for basically free and you sell a few dozen (?) thousand phones to the people who’d never buy from you otherwise. I’d love to see Samsung get involved as they’re the only decent non-US, non-CCP OEM out there.
grapheneos is not compatible with megacorpo philosophies
Samsung and others OEMs have little incentive to collaborate with privacy-oriented roms because a large part of their business models depend on the surveillance baked into their technology. They’re only interested in security as far as it frees them from liability, or can be used as worthwhile PR. They might not be based out of the US or China, but they do still operate in said countries and are all too happy to comply with data or unlock requests.
