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[–] moitoi@feddit.de 70 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

EU should double down with a regulation stipulating that people are free to install whatever OS they want on devices (smartphones included) and companies can't gatekeep it.

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[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

the problem is firmware. the community has been porting postmarketos to android phones for years, there are a ton of phones where PmOS will boot but most things like camera, phone service or bluetooth won't work because they are missing the firmware necessary.

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[–] moitoi@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I didn't get in the details. But, of course, a such regulation includes the availability of the firmware.

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[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

It'd be one hell of a battle considering companies would probably just pull a Microsoft and release the specifications as horrendously as possibly so no one can use them but their army of devs

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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

It's PmOS lol, POS stands for Piece of shit (or point of sale if capitalized as PoS)

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[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

good to know, I'm not a native speaker lol

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