Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

• tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s generally been positive reviews for FuriLab’s FLX1 model:

  • clehaxze.tw/…/07-20-flx1-actually-usable-linux-ph…
  • news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839326
  • www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/…/furilabs_flx1/
  • www.reddit.com/r/…/flx1_linux_phone_display_out/
  • www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/furiphone_flx1/

  Their new one, the FLX1s has 2GiB more RAM (for 8GiB, in total). I’ve heard battery gets 2 days without charge even with Android emulation.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s still Android kernel and drivers :/ but it is private. For Linux you’d need postmarket or one of their derivatives and they are fighting to get cameras and power under control.

    prob the best we have at the moment.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      and what’s the problem with android other than google’s fuckery?

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Assuming google’s fuckery doesn’t affect them, nothing.

        But we’re relying on google to keep up that code and not see them as a threat. Right now AOK, but in the future that makes longevity questionable.

        It’s something to be noticed and understood so there’s no surprises when the company that did no evil now does all the evil.

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So it would seem.

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