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"?
Thib
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