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Native Linux is coming to our phones much more easily (Xiaomi Mi Max 2) (thelemmy.club)
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AI can speed up a lot of the manual labour needed to bring even an almost dead, 10-year-old device back to life. My Xiaomi Mi Max 2 (oxygen, MSM8953) was dead. With AI help and my own knowledge, I ported/rewrote the missing drivers, and it now runs Nura (postmarketOS) with working camera, torch, SIM, phone calls and SMS. Only the loudspeaker is still broken.

Everything is up for anyone who wants to install it, or to understand the changes and manually write the patches for mainline: https://github.com/sv1sjp/mi-max2-oxygen-msm8953-nura-drivers Testing, feedback and PRs welcome.

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

You make the world a better place with the tools you have in this world. If you wait for perfect tools, you will get nowhere.

In the case of AI, your choices are over whether and which models you use. Your choice has zero impact on what others do with it. Let us take OP's case. Their choices are (1) run an AI for some time to make an older phone model usable for some more years, and (2) don't, and have a bunch of people buy newer phones. In this case, option 1 is clearly the better choice, in terms of energy and water use, economics, etc.

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