Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.
Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.
We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.
@thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome We need a legal obligation to release of all relevant code and schematics for all chipsets that are no longer supported by the manufacturer.
I'm still on an old Pixel 2, running an "ancient"¹ GrapheneOS. I replaced the battery, but it works fine.
It's also a security risk, which i'm well aware of. This shouldn't be the case.
1. I hate how the Internet distorts our relationship to time, i should probably write something about that one of these days.
@thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome I realise that manufacturers will build multiple generations out of a design, and an unsupported model might share a lot with a "current" one. There might be a way to accommodate that, or we just decide that sorry, socially and environmentally, it's just more important to make it possible to keep using existing hardware.
But in any case, i can run Debian on a 15 year old laptop, why can't i run LineageOS or CalyxOS on a 15 year old "phone"?
@axx
My DivestOS provides monthly updates to 12 year old phones.
Please consider replacing GrapheneOS in your Pixel 2 with it.
See https://divestos.org/pages/patch_levels and https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
@axx @thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome
*waves in Pixel 2!*
@thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome
@fsfe @dff
We should be celebrating tomorrow the
Hardware Freedom Day
https://digitalfreedoms.org/hfd
and discussing Device Neutrality
https://fsfe.org/activities/deviceneutrality/index
and the
Right to Repair
@DrorBedrack @thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome
Considering the number of stolen phones that probably get IMEI blocked, cannibalized for parts and discarded, I wouldn't discount it.
@sticklandtim @thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome
An alternative is ShiftPhone.
They are more techy to repair and their official page is only german.
BUT: it offers the mainframe too.
I somehow managed to scratch the fingerprint sensor on my fp3 and do not have an option to replace it easily. Luckily it was only that part
i still suggest for normal people to get an fp because its easy and good.
An classmate build together my old model, no help, fully disassembled with 1 error in ~8 minutes.
@sticklandtim @thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome
I've been using a second-hand Fairphone3 on e/OS for years (https://e.foundation/e-os/). As a non-techie, it's great!
My personal favourite feature of the OS is that it automatically (with notification/permission) removes permissions from apps if you haven't used them in a while.
A phone that's on my side rather than trying to get me to click "ok" once and suck my data forever. I'm such a fan!
ECOSYSTEMKEY FEATURESGET /E/OSNEED HELP /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled”, mobile ecosystem /e/OS is an open-source mobile operating system paired with carefully selected applications. They form a privacy-enabled internal system for your smartphone. And it’s not just claims: open-source means auditable privacy. /e/OS has received academic recognition from researchers at…
@thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome
We need a circular economy and ditto design. Same for the right to repair… the present way is simply not sustainable…
@wolf480pl @thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome and mastodon, pleroma etc are contributing to this, by motivating web browser devs to keep doing what they’re doing
(dishonourable mention to GNOME)
@thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome lemme hit me up if they managed to run postmarketOS on a Nokia N90.
On a serious note, I find old user interfaces for mobile phones interesting, and I do support projects such as this to lengthen the lifespan of phones. Whenever it's a HTC HD2, a Cherry Mobile Flare, or a Samsung Galaxy S4, it's important to have an operating system for the people who continue to use the hardware.
But of course, first we need to stop companies to make rooting hard.
Also user-repairable long-guaranteed phones like @WeAreFairphone make.
@thibaultamartin @BigAngBlack @postmarketOS @gnome When people all over Mastodon were talking about getting the latest iPhone I was like, “what the fuck. This is why we’re in an environmental crisis.”
Not like I have a zero waste lifestyle but c’mon. You should use a phone or other device until it dies.
@MisuseCase @thibaultamartin @BigAngBlack @postmarketOS @gnome
I was feeling pretty good that my phone is an ancient #Pixel2XL, then I looked up how long ago that came out and... it was only 3.5 years ago.
*sigh* We've still got a long way to go.
@thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome
I worked for a company called ITRenew and we had an internal startup called Sesame. We trying to save carbon footprint by replacing the bios with Linuxboot and coreboot extending the life of hyper scale equipment. We need to do the same with phones. We are just creating waste
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