Yeaaah… This has to have some catch because if not, this might finally be the phone I’ve been waiting for.

“Unfortunately, WiFi isn’t yet functional due to a firmware issue.”

Well, there’s one right there I guess, hopefully they can figure out the firmware.

With 12GB of ram, that’s absolutely more than enough to have waydroid running in the background with all the android apps I would need until the Linux app ecosystem catches up, and with mainline support, hopefully the battery life and hardware support won’t be absolutely abysmal.

I’ve never heard of this company or their previous phone, so I’m a little suspicious that their “13 exchangeable modules for the phone” are gonna have some showstopper catch in there. What are the modules for? Are we talking internal modules like soc and WiFi? Or external modules like what Motorola tried to do with an external camera modules and such?

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This is really cool, thanks for sharing!

I don’t have any suggestions for you, sorry. Now-a-days I just use Spotify or YouTube and stream stuff, then download the songs I really like, for offline play on my phone. I just wanted to comment on how much I miss the late 90’s early 2000’s era of WinAmp and having a real music collection. Sharing music with friends on CD’s, then eventually USB hard drives. Sadly way more fun than limitless access to anything you could want, on the internet.

Also shout out to GRiZ in your music list. That dude is absolutely fantastic, I love all of his stuff.

Stop, (there are) killing games (ahead)!

Stop killing (the) games!

Stop (the development of) games (that involve) killing!

Heh, reminds of a George Watsky lyric:

“Some people slower than a nineties modem, Wanna see the nips, it’s a while to load 'em”

I think the problem stems from the time period in Windows history where we transitioned from “the user has to install all drivers from a CD/manufacturers website” to “windows goes and finds drivers for you”, to what windows does now, where it grabs the correct drivers for you (I think? I don’t use windows anymore).

That intermediary step where windows would do a windows update and grab drivers Willy nilly for you and they weren’t correct, would mean, if you didn’t have a video card driver installed, then, yes, windows would install one for you But not the correct one for your card, it would install a generic one, so you have some amount of 2d/3d support. You could get the correct resolution for your HD monitor, or watch videos without stuttering, bit it did not give you the full 3d support for your card. So gaming wouldn’t work well. So once again, if you knew what you were doing, you had to ignore the fact that windows found a driver and installed it, and you had to hunt down the correct driver for your video card, from manufacturer website and install that.

Windows used to the the same stuff with sound cards too. You’d have a Creative sound blaster, 5.1 blah, blah, blah. And windows would install a generic sound card driver that maybe gave you like 2.1 sound or maybe it gave you all 5.1, but didn’t install the control panel from Creative so you couldn’t configure your card at all. So yes, your card, technically worked, but it didn’t work correctly, unless you knew enough to install the manufacturers driver instead.

Now I think windows just pulls down a some 3rd party software center from intel, or nvidia, etc, that scans your hardware, and grabs the correct driver for you. But that intermediary step before we got here? Caused a lot of confusion.

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That’s a bad-ass logo

Man, after being a Windows user from windows 95-windows 7, I don’t think I would enjoy using the Aero theme, even though it was nice on Windows. I love the freedom Linux brings too much to constantly be reminding myself of Windows while using Linux.

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I used to overclock back in the day when that was still a thing (2004-ish) and 120mm fans were amazing with a speed controller, have them slow when using computer normally, and speed 'em up when playing a game.

Awesome work! If you don’t mind me asking, what help/sources did you use to get this far in porting efforts? I have some free time on my hands and would like to try porting a newer phone such a pixel 4a or similar

Interesting, but also a little bit of history: almost every time Ubuntu goes off and does its own thing, not including the rest of the Linux community in its decisions, it ends up designing stuff that never gets adopted and becomes a nightmare to deal with. Remember Upstart? Remember Mir? Its annoying to see them have done it again. Just drop snap already, in favor of more popular solutions, like flatpak.

I mean, it’s not the OS, its the hardware support that’s needed. A Linux phone just has to support the hardware of the phone, and then it can run waydroid to run apps from android ecosystem, until the Linux app ecosystem catches up. Hard part is all the hardware is proprietary with no help from manufactures on drivers and firmware, so people have to reverse engineer everything which takes an incredible amount of skill, and time. Hence why we don’t have a viable alternative to iOS and Android yet.

Lol Comcast. You’ll want to record every. fucking. Phone call you have with them.

Its been a while since I’ve used virtualbox, this would allow you to use the virtualbox GUI and configuration utilities, but run the VM under KVM virtualization, correct? Is there much advantage to this over using virt-manager, or cockpit to configure your VM’s?

Love the sentiment, and I agree, but anti consumer surveillance tech is here to stay, sadly. Can’t tell you how many people in my life have Alexa, FireTV and random shit like that.