I personally believe the most logical, and long-term sustainable solution with the most control to the "Android becoming more closed" threat, is to fund and support @postmarketOS and alike initiatives.

[anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz]

I personally believe the most logical, and long-term sustainable solution with the most control to the "Android becoming more closed" threat, is to fund and support @postmarketOS and alike initiatives.

a fully decentralised solution developed by the whole FOSS ecosystem together is infinitely better than depending on the whims and generosity of big tech companies.

And, they still get to support the ecosystem by committing Linux/etc patches upstream, it just has better power balance in the end.

[frazzledwings@bark.lgbt]

@anthropy @postmarketOS wish it supported newer phones too

[anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz]

@FrazzledWings @postmarketOS it seems like it's a mostly volunteer based effort so it depends on if you have someone who decides to 'adopt' a phone and work on it, and it's also important to note that a lot of OEMs like Qualcomm won't release source code until much later (if at all) in the lifecycle of a SoC, so you might simply not have opensource drivers available to work with, which makes it harder and locks you to specific kernels and such.

I wish phones had a better ecosystem like PCs do.