Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials

FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  *Someone makes a cool hobby project*

  Internet people: “Trash. I don’t approve because isn’t useful to me. Fuck you and die.”

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  • whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    People that do shite themselves are the worst.

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Someone: makes something completely and utterly useless.

    Internet people: voice justified criticism.

    Half wits: “how dare you criticise the creators!”

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    • markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why does the end product of an electronics learning project need to be useful? Or any hobby project? Your criticism was that their hobbies should yield something useful, but where’s the “justification” for that? What’s wrong with just having fun?

      Quarter wits: “How dare you have fun”

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      • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Why does the end product of an electronics learning project need to be useful? Or any hobby project?

        So we agree it is useless? OK.

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    • rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Dude. It’s a hobby project. It doesn’t need to solve major global market problems for you. What an absolutely bizarre thing to get this angry over.

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      • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Dude. Read again. Slowly.

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    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m sure many people call you useless, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t exist

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      • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        many people call you useless,

        You must be thinking about your parents and yourself.

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• obbeel@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hacking isn’t about reinventing the wheel. This isn’t a finished product destined for a market. Even if it was, think about the small business utilities involved in local knowledge (“low-tech”): many small producers (farmers, shops, etc.) still use “obsolete” mechanisms and improvised mechanical technology. If that could reflect personal or community knowledge into real technology, even if “low technology”, that’s already a social gain for those people.

  Besides that, it’s worth it for a personal project where the end goal is obtaining knowledge about how things work in the world. Not everything is about stocks, and stocks doesn’t fill all of the “market” also.

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it can make calls, and send texts," LuckyBor writes of the project, which perhaps stretches the definition of “smartphone”

    … And you need to remove the screen to insert a sim card. Now tell me again this is not ridiculous.

    Take the first one off the shelf smartfone, wipe out the entire software, replace it with bloat free, spyware free, update free equivalent and voila!

    Absolutely no need to reinvent the wheel, this is a road to nowhere.

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    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I do not think you understand what a hobby prototype means, educate yourself then come talk amongst adults

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      • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        My son put a lego car toghther yesterday. Look, a hobby prototype! 🙄

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    • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I remember having to remove the battery of one of my phones to change the SIM card. It was particularly annoying because that phone/SIM had issues registering so I would have to reinsert the SIM card a few times and reboot each time.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      … And you need to remove the screen to insert a sim card. Now tell me again this is not ridiculous.

      Lmao, it prob doesn’t even have a working software kit, you would have to arduino some shit yourself.

      I don’t think you understood what this is & who is it for.

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    • notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think they’re having more fun making it than looking for a perfect solution. The fastest way to accomplish this is just buying some flipphone from Kyocera or something.

      Also it’s a prototype. It wouldn’t survive in the real world in it’s current state.

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      • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think they’re having more fun making it than looking for a perfect solution.

        Possibly, thus my point - reinventing the wheel.

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• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  but it is about software, not hardware.

  Hey Bestie! Sorry, but you are absolutely wrong here. 😊

  There are several options for free and open source software for mobile applications, and it only works with a teeny tiny sliver of the available hardware because almost none of the hardware is even remotely open. 😭

  At this stage, it is absolutely about hardware that actually supports the OS community, because all the software imaginable is useless if it can’t run on any available hardware! 😁

  Kthx, Lots of Love! 🤩

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  • richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They are all shit except jello may be. If it was that good it will be a tsunami into the market. You cannot make a phone with such a poor hardware. 4G said it all

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    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I like Jello! My favorite flavor is Lime, how about you? 😃

      Also, 4G was the dominant mobile technology for over 10 years, there are probably close to 10 BILLION 4G phones on the planet, WOW! 🤯 It sure seems like someone was able to make a phone with such hardware!

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      • richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I like Mint too.

        Hourra for Jolla

        Pinephone is running with 4 x ARM A53 and 1 ARM Mali 400 and it still damn slow. Not reactive. ESP32 is perfect for a DIY phone, for hobbyists. It’s not a first try. The 6G is starting 4G switch off will start in less than 2 years. Dead before to be born lol

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Aside from the irony, there’s lots to be improved for a Desktop/touch-only computer if you can start fron scratch, vs. the current server hardware and software stack with a desktop HID shoehorned on it.
  Also, can we please get rid of “recalculating a still image 60+ times a second just for the fun of it” and take a “changes-only, the rest buffered” approach? We don’t use CRT displays anymore.

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• jim_v@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This poster has never made an LED blink and it shows.

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