The project, developed in partnership with veteran free software developer Rob Savoye, aims to create a fully free and open mobile platform, from the firmware to the operating system.

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    1 day ago

    Running PostmarketOS on hardware such as the Oneplus 6T (which is 8 years old now) shows that you could truly have dog shit cheap hardware for this. As long as you have decent driver support for it.

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      18 hours ago

      I’m just over here, mad that I have a Oneplus 7 pro lying around and there’s no port for that. For none of the 3 distros I could find that support the 6T. So I’m suspecting there’s some reason why it’s just not feasible.

      It’s an epic phone and it could be so good with a lighter weight OS than Android.

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      I’m making this comment with a OnePlus 6T I got 8 years ago when it was new and it has never needed repairs, so I wouldn’t exactly call it dogshit. Even the battery still lasts a couple days of heavy use before needing a charge, though that may have more to do with my efforts in reducing software overhead over the years. (Also making sure almost everything I ever view on it has an AMOLED dark background)

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        7 hours ago

        No I love the one plus 6t, but I’m more pointing out that the hardware requirements are extremely low at this point. Didn’t mean to offend