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• Plasma Mobile joins the Plasma 6 megarelease with a new shell and apps

  The main OS supported by KDE Plasma Mobile is postmarketOS https://postmarketos.org/ So you have to have a phone that is supported by it ()or some other Linux distribution and then you can install it and run KDE Plasma Mobile More info is here https://plasma-mobile.org/get/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Which corporations in your opinion are the most evil for privacy, and the least evil for privacy?

  The privacy setting on IOS is mostly somkes and mirrors as most data is still phoned home, somone made a blocklist of services that „phone home” weirdly often (alltough some I understand, others are there for unknow reason to me). (here is what apple claims each of those send/do ), telemetry is way too closely tied with apple walled garden to fully disable it without loosing funcionality. OEM versions of android... Source: 5 months ago

• Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

  I'm sure you did your research. I'm writing for other readers who are interested. There are a few alternatives, more can be found but this is a selection of the most prominent offerings. /e/OS: https://e.foundation/e-os/ GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/ PostmarketOS (based on Alpine Linux rather than Android): https://postmarketos.org/ (for some... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]

  Nobody else (that I saw) mentioned it, but PostmarketOS [0] has a decent number of (community) supported devices, is Free and more than a de-Googled Android distro - it's actually based on Alpine Linux. I've previously run it on my Pinephone Pro, but images are available for multiple Samsung handsets as well [1] [0] https://postmarketos.org/ [1] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Transform Your Android Device into a Linux Desktop

  You actually have 80% of the control of your phone after rooting it. The remaining 20% is due to kernel variation and not having all mainline features. Most Android distributions are tailor-made Linux kernel that is very old and is stitched by cherrypicking some mainline commits. If you want full control check out postmarketOS: https://postmarketos.org/. With the right hardware and software you can even run... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Support for Linux distributions added to customrombay.org

  For now, only information about Ubuntu Touch support is available on our website. We plan to extend that to PostmarketOS and NixOS. But which devices does Ubuntu Touch support? For example those:. Source: 10 months ago

• Google making it difficult for Custom ROM by removing Dialer and Messaging from AOSP

  I think they’re talking about postmarketOS, which is Alpine-based. Source: 10 months ago

• do you know how can I re-use the smartphone part into an Arduino or else project?

  What state is the phone in? If it works and boots, you might be able to install postmarketOS for a Linux experience similar to a Raspberry Pi. Source: 11 months ago

• Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled

  For a single-purpose device running custom software you wrote, I would consider Linux which is not an Android. Couple years ago, I wanted something similar on a smartphone, and postmarketOS https://postmarketos.org/ worked rather well for me. The OS is based on Alpine Linux. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Don’t care if you have an android, don’t care if you have an iPhone, don’t care if you have a feature phone.

  Agreed. (I have a Linux phone, which many people mistake as a feature phone, when really it has all the features of other modern smartphones and u can run any linux apps on it lol. https://postmarketos.org/ ). Source: 12 months ago

• Old phones as home automation devices?

  Check https://postmarketos.org/. You can put Linux on old android phone and then run whatever you like on top of it. Source: 12 months ago

• Ask HN: Project ideas for a Linux kernel module

  Yeah, supporting Android devices in mainline kernel would be really useful also for projects like postmarketOS (https://postmarketos.org/). - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• How to install Fedora Phosh 38 Beta?

  I don't think you can install Fedora. If I remember correctly, what your looking for is called postmarketOS. You can then choose between a few DE to install on top, including Phosh or even the default GNOME shell. Source: about 1 year ago

• Consoom new phone every 3 years

  In any case, processor incompatibility doesn't seem to be the problem, anyway. LineageOS shows that continuing support for old devices isn't that big an ask. And hopefully https://postmarketos.org/ will be successful at solving the problem at its root. Source: about 1 year ago

• repurposing a phone

  Check out postmarketOS which is based off of alpine, it might suit your needs. Source: about 1 year ago

• Interested in installing CalyxOS on a Pixel 6a

  Then you'll be interested in the Pinephone (Pro), Purism's Librem 5 and PostmarketOS. Source: about 1 year ago

• Does anyone knows whether it's possible to run Linux (either Kali or Ubuntu) on this ancient tablet without using Termux?

  You might want to consider /r/postmarketos - https://postmarketos.org/ - https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Porting_to_a_new_device. Source: over 1 year ago

• What does MIT license allow?

  But anyway, there are actual factual Linux distros for mobile, like PostMarketOs. It's not like Android and iOS are the only possibilities. Sure, these aren't really ready for mainstream yet, but you probably mean just android and ios. https://postmarketos.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• what types of crafty stuff can i get up to with this android i found found laying around the house 😇😇😇

  Outside of installing LineageOS, postmarketOS, /r/androidafterlife might have some interesting ideas. Source: over 1 year ago

• Getting the most out of a creaky old tablet

  Take a look at PostmarketOS. I did not see your device listed but that doesn't mean it won't/will work. Source: over 1 year ago

• The $8 Linux Computer

  Thats basically the goal of the postmarketos project: https://postmarketos.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago