@dos @Gina @simonjust

I've also been using the #openmoko and I'm now also using the #Librem5 as my daily phone.

I'm strongly against the forced use of apps that are only running on #bigtech operating systems like iOS and Android (#appdwang), especially if I'm forced by government or banks.

The Librem 5 might be less convenient than Apple or Google phones, but I'm enjoying my #freedom as a user every day. Also I really like the pure #Linux on the phone.

#FOSS enables #DigitalSovereignty.

@xfts we had that - #vanilla #Linux fail on #Mobile before #Android even existed…

• Anyone else remember #OpenMoko?

Android at least can be "#salvaged" through #forking and I think that'll be unavoidable now, with i.e. @LineageOS becoming the upstream for Android #ROMs like @GrapheneOS and @e_mydata as #Google enshittifies and curbs access to Android Sources...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0&t=6m19s video via @linuxfoundation feat. @landley

@Billie @maddy @landley @libreoffice well, "vanilla" #Linux had it's time at a #mobile OS.

Actually: multiple times.

• #OpenMoko
• #MeeGo nee #Maemo
• #postmarketOS
• …

@kaffeeringe mein erstes mobiles GPS-fähiges Gerät, mit welchem ich meine ersten Edits von unterwegs gemacht habe...

#OpenMoko #OpenStreetMap

@dos @cpontvieux @fraggle

The battery arrived, I put it in the #OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner, and it booted #SHR.

However, the battery indicator in SHR does not show any information about the battery level or whether power is connected or not.

But nice to see that the phone still boots!

Also when connected to the original power supply, I do not see any led light, but I do not remember if there used to be a led indicating that the phone is charging or not.

@gabrielesvelto I still remember #FirefoxOS and I'm still mad at @Mozilla / @mozilla_support / #Mozilla for self-sabotaging because neither me nor @fuchsiii nor anyone else I knew who did #WebDev / #AppDev / #MobileDev could even buy a device.

• The only device that I was aware of launched in the #EU was a #SimLock'd & #NetLock'd #prepaid phone in #Spain which wouldn't sell it to us since they demanded #KYC with a spanish residency address.

I mean it's cool that one could just use #Firefox as #Emulator but no #mobile #OperatingSystem will have any chance of market attraction if one cannot buy the bloody thing!

• Same like #OpenMoko: I'd love to get a #Neo1973 but none of the phone and electronic stores had it (and back then I was under 16 so I couldn't just make an account at an online shop)…

@ciourte @netopwibby Needless to say I've only heard of some Spanish low-cost #MVNO offering one device only in a #prepaid #bundle when #FirefoxOS was unveiled at the #MWC in #Barcelona based off coverage in @ct_Magazin at the time.

• Cuz I remember #WebDevs like @fuchsiii really loving it because it was the then hot & fresh #HTML5 + #JS6 + #CSS3 combo to make it super-easy to do #Apps. All one needs to build an app was #Firefox as Browser and the ability to basically zip' it.

Alas @Mozilla deciding on purpose to literally splinter the market by letting #MNO|s and MVNOs run their #AppStore|s instead of a #centralized model, making the situation worse than in the "P.R." #China where there are several vendor-independent #AppStores for #Android.

• "Conspiracy Theorists" even suggested that this was deliberate self-sabotage to benefit #Google and #Android, tho needless to say Firefox OS aimed at devices & specs that were too low for Android.

Still, I'm #StillMad at #Mozilla for faceplanting Firefox OS cuz it had the easiest way to get started and a good architecture being every #App is just a #WebApp and all the system calls were standard #HTML5 permissions and nothing fancy.

• Basically #PSvita - Syndrome, but worse as in #OpenMoko #Freenunner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p76exsJn7SU