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minus-squareCyborganism@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down6·1 year agoI’ve seriously looked into it and I disagree. We need open source drivers for devices. Without those, your smartphones with any other open source OS would be next to useless.
minus-squareContend6248@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·edit-21 year agowhat the fuck https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ These are only the official ones which are up to par with the quality assurance of LOS, there are countless of unofficial builds for almost any phone. For example, Pocophone F1, my first Xiaomi phone still gets security and feature updates: https://download.lineageos.org/devices/beryllium/builds https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/beryllium/ It’s now 5 years old, that’s Apple kind of support for an €350 Android device. Vote with your wallet and only buy phones on the device list of LOS.
I’ve seriously looked into it and I disagree.
We need open source drivers for devices. Without those, your smartphones with any other open source OS would be next to useless.
what the fuck
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
These are only the official ones which are up to par with the quality assurance of LOS, there are countless of unofficial builds for almost any phone.
For example, Pocophone F1, my first Xiaomi phone still gets security and feature updates:
https://download.lineageos.org/devices/beryllium/builds
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/beryllium/
It’s now 5 years old, that’s Apple kind of support for an €350 Android device.
Vote with your wallet and only buy phones on the device list of LOS.