New financed postmarketOS project: q6voice(d)

5 months ago by petsoi to c/linux

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

inari 38 points 5 months ago

I'm really rooting for Linux phones

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BeigeAgenda 14 points 5 months ago

It took me a while to stop reading financed as: finance daemon.

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pcouy 12 points 5 months ago

After trying to run postmarketos on an old phone of mine, I'm really excited for anything that improves support for android devices to mainline linux !

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Squizzy 8 points 5 months ago

Whybis the camera such an issue for linuxphones? The few I checked had untested or partial results for camera.

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non_burglar 10 points 5 months ago

Openness. Most cameras for android phones are proprietary because it's easier to save money by not having a common controller for cameras and just using a proprietary blob.

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Squizzy 2 points 5 months ago

But are the sensors not third party, generally Sony or zeiss?

Pure pain, similar with graphene, the pixel camera is a selling point and it is sbite on graphene.

There if a foss pixel camera app that does a good job though

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anon_8675309 8 points 5 months ago

Right. But the processing pipeline is not. If you took one single image from the sensor of the pixel or iPhone it would look like ass compared to what the processed one looks like. The poeple capable of writing those pipelines don’t typically do it for free.

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Squizzy 2 points 5 months ago

Interesting, is it called the camera processing pipeline? Id be interested in reading some more and seeing if there is a foss project

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jlow 3 points 5 months ago

OpenCamera? Used it for years but on my FP5 the auto brightness / exposure is only working 10% of the time 😭

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Squizzy 2 points 5 months ago

Its just slow and blurry on pixel 10 pro

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Kynn 6 points 5 months ago

It’s kinda hard to accept they are debuting paid work on something that only works on pre-2022 devices... I do understand the recycling idea behind this, but next time I change my phone and look up for a linux compatible phone, I already know I won’t be buying a pre-2022 device :(..

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texture 5 points 5 months ago

perhaps there are markets where this is much more common than we are used to.

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Solrac 2 points 5 months ago

There are more recent devices (ie Fairphone 5) that seem to be pretty good spot (check the wiki, and regardless this is a really good phone to get) But I get your point.

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