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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Short answer: no.

Long answer: Linux phones aren't ready in 2025.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Why is half the video some shitty machine generated song?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Judging from the video thumbnail, I'm going to guess this youtuber says no, they aren't.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago
[–] onlinepersona 4 points 3 days ago

It took me a while to find, but the newest, best supported phones on the device list are

  • PINE64 PinePhone Pro (2021)
  • Fairphone 4 (2021) (partial call support)
  • PINE64 PinePhone (2020)
  • Purism Librem 5 (2020)
  • SHIFT SHIFT6mq (2020)

The pixel 3a is not well supported and has problems with wifi, battery, audio, camera, calls, and NFC, so IMO don't base your impression of PostmarketOS on the pixel3a.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I had no idea there are people who pronounce Godot as "go-dot." I will never be able to unhear this.

I've always said "god-oh" with a silent 't' like in "Brigitte Bardot".

[–] FizzyOrange 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is definitely a silent t. They've just misread it.

I agree, it's really annoying.

[–] DrDeadCrash 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

IIRC...Creators say it doesn't matter, either pronunciation is fine.

[–] FizzyOrange 1 points 2 days ago

They're being tactful. It's clearly a reference to Waiting for Godot. They even said so.

The name "Godot" was chosen in reference to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, as it represents the never-ending wish of adding new features in the engine, which would get it closer to an exhaustive product, but never will.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Probably because of misunderstanding the project, and thinking it has something to do with Go (the language). Or, maybe not. But programmers can be really uncreative when naming projects; is a pretty common naming scheme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No love for the FuriLabs project?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Never heard of FuriLabs, looks really cool. How open is the OS/hardware? Could be my next phone... though I'd love to see an immutable approach so I can't be left with a broken system after an update.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sailfish. (Haven’t watched video)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't this that's foss but I could be mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You may be correct. However, the question said “Linux phones”. Sailfish is Linux and it runs on phones.

[–] dirtycrow 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“Are [mainframe OS, non-flagship/consumer OS] [consumer device] ready in [Current Year]?”

Not to be an asshat about it, but this is what the title reads to me. I’d love a Linux mobile distribution, but really what that’s asking for is: optimized mobile driver kit for an open hardware platform, and the ability to manufacture them at an economy of scale to deliver quality without paying out the ass for. I feel like this is difficult because that development time required to have a stable software and the hardware itself would require tons of money, so one would have to be sacrificed since FOSS devs don’t really have a lot of money… since they do it for free.