This actually looks really, really cool. If someday a repairable version of this proves viable for another company I can see myself saving up for a device like this.

This is more like a tablet and phone hybrid. So if you were already going to buy both, you may well just buy this, I guess, I don’t what Android tablet prices are like.

That is America though, guns (and gun parts) are everywhere. You can make a shotgun out of two pieces of pipe over there, no printer required. That wouldn’t fly in places with strict gun control, which are most places.

Oh they can enforce it just fine. Some guy in UK tried 3D printing a gun and saw what’s what, granted he called support which is stupid as hell, but everyone has a non-zero chance of slipping up. And once you do, I hope you don’t have unfinished business outside. Impracticality of enforcement only becomes an issue if it’s ridiculously widespread, which this is not.

Given that your phone will see far more active use and will have to be connected to some kind of network, the chances of it getting detected and landing you in trouble is quite high. You have a better chance with getting out of there if possible or getting rid of your smartphone if not.

On a side tangen I don’t buy into the “anyone can build a gun” argument anyway. You have to make a frame, barrel, blackpowder, cast lead… it’s a long hard process that will result in an underpowered / impractical gun or most likely both, something 99% of people won’t bother ever bother with due to the sheer friction involved if nothing else. That argument holds weight with knives (sharp stuff in general), sheperd’s slings, maybe a brass knuckle even but not really with guns.

What do you even do there? I can almost never find anything to watch on PeerTube.

I give up on having that thing. I’m unemployed, I don’t have any income at all. When I have a well paying job though I’d rather just pay, there are a lot of people I would like to support.

An open Android is perfectly viable, it can even be hardforked if people are that unhappy with what Google did with it over the years.

I think mobile Linux has functional advantages that can make it a lot more desirable, but there is no reason a truly open Android cannot exist.

Very unlikely, but I hope they go “Mario, this sucks actually, so you can’t have it anymore.”

Oh my word, I need to see if this work well with Western comics.

Everything would be so easy if we just had a good local comic reader for smartphones 😭

Or use a search engine to access it in general. Anna’s Archive itself is a search engine, it’s better to just bookmark it and search for stuff directly from there.

It took over twenty years just for Linux to enter the conversation at the enthusiast level, it took a lot, and I do mean a lot, of enshittification on Microsoft’s part and decades of campaigning by free software ideologues for us to get to this point, and if Windows still worked like Windows 7 we still wouldn’t be anywhere close.

OpenBSD is super niche relative to FreeBSD, which is super niche relative to Linux. I don’t even know if it was built for desktop use, or if it happens to be usable as one thanks to Linux DEs being compatible so long as they don’t heavily depend on Linux specific stuff. Though I guess it can be a desktop OS in the most conservative sense of that term even without all that stuff.

Ubuntu had issues with it’s snap store as well. I think there will be more security oriented distros in the future like Kodachi, but it’s best to be cautious in general these days.

Not for long, Linux will get targeted like this as it becomes more popular. It’s more of an argument for OpenBSD if anything, since OpenBSD will never be popular on desktop and it’s developers take security very seriously.

What game is that?

I try to degoogle the best I can. When I was shopping for a new phone I went with Xiaomi because those phones used to be famous for their community support, but it seems like those days have passed. Once I discovered that I looked for alternatives that are available where I live and saw they weren’t any better, so I went with Xiaomi anyway.

Until I manage to move to EU and buy a Fairphone using a private, open source smartphone OS won’t be possible.

I don’t see what would be the value in that anymore. I didn’t use a phone with a physical keyboard in a while but I think a virtual 3x3 keyboard would be more comfortable.

Why not both? Android is open source, an organization can hardfork it if there is demand for it.

I really hope this project succeeds. Having an upgradable, mostly opes source phone would be amazing.

I think this is an exaggeration. Smartphones are one of the greatest inventions in human history, the problem is corporate control, the actual device is amazing.

I have a smartphone, just like there is no more need for a dedicated music player and a portable game console, I can play games and music on this as much as I want. A question popped into my head? I can look it up immediately. Love reading books? You now have effectively infinite space for them and don’t need to carry them around, trying to make sure they don’t get damaged. Want to watch a movie or a series? You got it. You even used to be able use it as a VR viewer! How cool is that?

If you suffered from social media addiction and just can’t use the device without risking a relapse I can sympathize with that. But that’s big tech’s fault, nothing necessitates smartphones being that way apart from corporate desire for infinite wealth.

Most of the world will not have access to phones that put freedom first, but if you have access to them they can remind you how amazing these things actually are.