Hacker: that's why we fight for customer's rights to tear Mobilek's body, to pull out his guts, to rewire his brain, to watch him suffer and, eventually, die.
Literally no modern mainstream smartphones support bootloader unlock. I just ordered one without it, because I'm giving up on finding one that supports it for a decent price. Fuck me in 8 years. Or I could keep using my Redmi 4x with ocasional (unfixable) motherboard issues.
Still waiting for Mobile Linux to come to these wonderful devices.
Pixel 3a running Linux like a charm, and eternally supported, never out of date :3
Pixel 6 and 7, on the other hand, are about to hit EOL because Google won't support them, neither will Graphene, not sure about Lineage, and Linux is not there yet.
Yep, there are still motos, pixels and global oneplus devices (but my budget was 300€, while I spent 400 :-( and a chinese import redmi was the only thing competitive in that price range (never thought I'd be spending so much money on anything smaller than a car)).
Also, hurry up with the bl unlock (since xiaomi is apparently discontinuing the legacy miui unlock).
Xiaomi basically already discontinued the bl unlock as they put a ridiculously low daily unlock quota, like 1000 worldwide. The quota gets burned within seconds
I'm not going to even pretend it's a mainstream brand (or a decent price depending on model, even when buying secondhand) but the Sony Xperia phones do allow bootloader unlock. Lineage OS has support for some of the slightly older models that arnt getting official support anymore iirc. Although I haven't messed with roms personally (not super techy compared to probably literally anyone else here) But it is something to keep in mind if you ever see one around for a price you'd be happy with.
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Thank you for raising awareness about planned obsolescence.
Yeah :(
Hacker: that's why we fight for customer's rights to tear Mobilek's body, to pull out his guts, to rewire his brain, to watch him suffer and, eventually, die.
In our war against the Mobilek's flesh, we must configure it into a higher level of order. This is true ascendancy.
Mr mobilek needs to receive a good custom rom and become a rebel
Literally no modern mainstream smartphones support bootloader unlock. I just ordered one without it, because I'm giving up on finding one that supports it for a decent price. Fuck me in 8 years. Or I could keep using my Redmi 4x with ocasional (unfixable) motherboard issues.
What about Pixels? My Pixel 6 and 7 Pro were both easy enough.
Yep, but the devices are relatively shitty (apart from the hardware security). Also I'm not buying a 300€ device for 400+.
Still waiting for Mobile Linux to come to these wonderful devices.
Pixel 3a running Linux like a charm, and eternally supported, never out of date :3
Pixel 6 and 7, on the other hand, are about to hit EOL because Google won't support them, neither will Graphene, not sure about Lineage, and Linux is not there yet.
Update: LineageOS should remain available!
postmarket->nura is getting close. They have working camera drivers recently, (not to say high quality) I think VOLTE and battery is still dodgy.
Speaking from experience with Pixel 3a on Nura with KDE Plasma Mobile
how's sms?
All kinds of messaging work properly, with notifications.
Not even the ones from motorola? They used to be easy to unlock. What about the cheaper ones from generic unknown brands?
I have that exact same one, but I managed to fuck up with the mi account and be unable to unlock it. My poor mobilek...
Yep, there are still motos, pixels and global oneplus devices (but my budget was 300€, while I spent 400 :-( and a chinese import redmi was the only thing competitive in that price range (never thought I'd be spending so much money on anything smaller than a car)).
Also, hurry up with the bl unlock (since xiaomi is apparently discontinuing the legacy miui unlock).
Xiaomi basically already discontinued the bl unlock as they put a ridiculously low daily unlock quota, like 1000 worldwide. The quota gets burned within seconds
Well, you still can unlock a legacy miui device (for now).
Then you will not be able to find a custom rom because of that
We can use GSI roms on most phones
Even if they did the carriers control what devices they'll allow on the network.
Not in the EU (apart from some French fuckwads) at least. But in the US, UK, yes.
That's actually really interesting
Neoliberalism strikes again.
Edit: As far as I know, there's only regulation blocking them from it.
I'm not going to even pretend it's a mainstream brand (or a decent price depending on model, even when buying secondhand) but the Sony Xperia phones do allow bootloader unlock. Lineage OS has support for some of the slightly older models that arnt getting official support anymore iirc. Although I haven't messed with roms personally (not super techy compared to probably literally anyone else here) But it is something to keep in mind if you ever see one around for a price you'd be happy with.
My mobilek is on LineageOS life support
the abs make me feels
NO
:'(
Can’t imagine a world without roblobs
It's the best app!
Soon it will be the only app as all apps we know today become subapps inside of Roblox
We can only hope.
Roblox - the global wechat.
Dang. Can't wait to pay my taxes in Robux
Your tax bill is: 2 hours of tung tung tung tung sahur gameplay
I thought Mobilek was super evil tho
that's propaganda
poor mr mobilek :(
Yeah :(
won't nobody think of the poor ai?
Damn... this is sad.
if only my mobilek supported all these fancy alternative OSes. I suspect a used/new Pixel for Graphene is coming my way soon
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I love this comic.
Thank you!
Time for a book
i agree
Cuck porn
Yeah!
I'd consider that an upgrade
"Don't make it hard"
That's what he said
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