viov@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 7 hours agoWe should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touchwww.extremetech.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1234arrow-down1external-linkWe should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touchwww.extremetech.comviov@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 7 hours agomessage-square46fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarepineapple@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·4 hours agoFairphone? perhaps. Samsung? hell naw. Samsung heavily benefits from the spyware it builds into One UI and 99% of its user base do not care about the spyware. But I do hope hope that Fairphone begins to embrace Linux support.
minus-squareviov@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·37 minutes agoWhat is the bottleneck holding Fairphone back from supporting Linux fully?
minus-squarePreston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 hours ago Samsung heavily benefits from the spyware it builds into One UI and 99% of its user base do not care about the spyware. They go out of their way to ensure that it cannot be disabled even if you do care about the spyware and try to uninstall or disable it.
Fairphone? perhaps. Samsung? hell naw. Samsung heavily benefits from the spyware it builds into One UI and 99% of its user base do not care about the spyware.
But I do hope hope that Fairphone begins to embrace Linux support.
What is the bottleneck holding Fairphone back from supporting Linux fully?
They go out of their way to ensure that it cannot be disabled even if you do care about the spyware and try to uninstall or disable it.