Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
213 points - yesterday at 10:01 PM
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ianso today at 7:57 AM
This is awesome stuff. Fully mainstream Linux with a normal userland running on a modern handset with all features will unlock a tremendous amount of change once it's there.
Things like running a distributed database for a community on top of the devices they own, hopefully also running true mesh networking.
varun_ch yesterday at 10:57 PM
The part about getting authorized to test the emergency calling capabilities is cool! I should've expected that would be a thing but I didn't ever consider it.
iamkonstantin today at 4:28 AM
Awesome! There are so many cool things we could be doing with our phones if they weren't locked to a single OS
abc123abc123 today at 9:43 AM
Does ubuntu touch or postmarket os work reliably on the fairphone 6 now, or is this still just components working? Is it possible to use it as a daily driver?
SkinTaco today at 6:54 AM
What is that bit about Bedrijfsaansprakelijkheidsverzekering at the end? I've never heard of business liability insurance before. Does Germany not have an equivalent of an LLC?
hnisjafx40 today at 10:16 AM
This aged well
megous today at 12:14 AM
I see AF algo has some trouble with defocussing a perfectly sharp scene for no reason. :)
Does this HW have access to PDAF pixel data?
mistercheph today at 1:14 AM
Awesome
asd000hh today at 4:24 AM
wow amazing
chinagenie_ai today at 10:14 AM
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huflungdung today at 12:26 AM
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nekusar yesterday at 10:41 PM
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greatgib yesterday at 10:43 PM
Great job.
My advice would be to not take the frustrating and useless road of a non-profit structure for some things that you do for pleasure.
The for-profit will be simpler and give you more liberties, and if, in the end, you have the good mindset that you want your creations to be shared freely, you can do it anyway. It is a state of mind.
zb3 yesterday at 11:29 PM
PostmarketOS can't partner with any OEM/ODM and volunteers have to use hacks to unofficially implement basic Android 1.0 functionality years after a device was released? That's sad to see. This is just lame, drivers should be implemented by those who work on them..
We had Librem 5 which had real OS support that didn't have to rely on third-party volunteers, I wish they released something more modern..