• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    16 days ago

    So what is a good medium/cheap phone from the last 3 years where Nura can be installed without any risk of failure or damage?

    • mildseason@sopuli.xyz
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      16 days ago

      List of working devices can be found here - https://wiki.nura.eco/wiki/Devices

      Unfortunately there are few with complete functionality. I believe the project has been on hold while they do an audit and figure out governance. Hopefully the name change means that process is nearing completion and the focus can return to device functionality. Forgive me if i’m mistaking this for another project though.

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          16 days ago

          FP6, “unofficially” as in, the patches are in a newer kernel version iirc, so when Nura catches up to said version, all the patches will work out of the box. ✨ For more info, I’d suggest checking this Community for all the FP6 updates

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            16 days ago

            So, a phone that’s still well in the support window of the original vendor plus probably years more via LineageOS. I don’t see a ton of value in postmarketOS on the FP6.

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              16 days ago

              Why is there no value in mobile linux on a modern phone?

              Atleast for me the value for Nura (which im glad is why they dropped the old name) is that its mainline linux, not that the orginal vendor doesn’t support it anymore.

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    16 days ago

    Hey, that’s pretty neat! It looks like the name is based off a rock structure in Italy, representing stability :D

    It’s also nice that it’s easier to pronounce for non-native English speakers (or as a matter of fact, non-English speakers!)

    The new .eco URL is also interesting, from what I can tell it’s operated by a Canadian company called “Big Room”, and to register, you need to pledge that you will support positive change for the planet and you need to be transparent about your actions that could affect the environment.

    We’ve already seem sites with the .org TLD get struck down by the U.S. government (e.g. Autistici/Inventati getting sanctioned as a “global terrorist organisation” for providing email and blog hosting services to “far-left antifascist terrorists”), so moving away from that is probably a good thing.

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      16 days ago

      I don’t like the green washing domain costing 60 euros a year (+60 euros registration!) when it cost them cents… This is 101 gatekeeping internet in general, but I guess it OK for them to spent that amount of money to help closing the internet to small people with not that deep of money.

      And this is not coming from a hater, I participated to PostMarketOS (as dev), I like the project and want to see the project growing, but I can’t stand the current “slipping into fascism” trajectory of western societies. Giving corporation full control and removing everything that made the internet neutrality (you can’t own a domain unless you have quiet the money now, don’t event get me started on e-mail or IPv6). Green washing is not going to help.

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    16 days ago

    Yeah, “postmarketOS” had become a bit of a misnomer, since brand new phones can have it installed.

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      16 days ago

      It worked wonderfully to get the point across; “This is an OS you flash after your phone is no longer supported”

      Nura is nice, I do like it, but I doubt it’ll have the same instant “Oh I get it” that the name “postmarketOS” had. I could be wrong though.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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        16 days ago

        I wanna get to the time when instead of “after your phone is no longer supported” we can get Nura-first devices we can expect will last many many years. :D