postmarketOSMar 17

New blog post introducing the WIP Duranium project (immutable postmarketOS), some of its major features, and explaining why some design decisions were made.  

> Either the new image works, or the system falls back to the previous one automatically. No partially-applied state. No debugging audio when you need to make a phone call and no fussing with a broken web browser when you just want to doomscroll cat photos. It also means developers can reproduce the exact state of a user's device, making it much easier to track down and fix issues.

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/03/17/introducing-duranium/

#linuxmobile #postmarketos #duranium

Introducing Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

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Show threadJens Finkhäuser2d ago

@postmarketOS Ah, Duranium implies solidity, but it's based on AI slop.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-rc3

No thanks.

"Vibanium"

systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added

The first release candidate of systemd 260 arrived in late February with the new mstack feature, dropping System V service scripts support, and other changes

Show threadkcxt2d ago

@jens crazy take considering it's been less than 2 months since systemd started using AI for code review. Critique all you like but at least don't disrespect us by doing it in blatant bad faith

we switched to systemd over 18 months ago! if we wanted to avoid it we would be setting our progress back half a decade at least.

at the end of the day there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, it's a constant battle between harm reduction and moral principles, the pros did (and imo still very much do) outweigh the cons. but by all means give us an alternative that meets your standards

Show threadJens Finkhäuser2d ago

@cas My blatant bad faith is with AI slop, and I absolutely disagree: the only way this can be reversed is by mercilessly shaming everyone who uses it.

Sorry it's you 🤷

But it's not *my* choice to support AI slop, so don't try to turn this "bad faith" argument around. Putting AI slop into code is bad faith.

Show threadJens Finkhäuser2d ago

@cas Here's a link to a fuller argument:

https://social.finkhaeuser.de/@jens/116242753615998997

Jens Finkhäuser (@[email protected])

Writing this up again so I can pin it: AI is literally a fascist project. Friends don't let friends use it. Before I go into this, there are two types of responses to this that I have taken seriously so far. One I'll call HashTagNotAllAI, which yields the obligatory "sure", but has the same smell. I'll leave it at that. The other is that an anti AI stance also throws some assistive technology under the bus, making such a stance intrinsically ableistic. The easy thing to do is to refer...

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Show threadErin 💽✨
@jens @cas tell me Jens, what OSes do you run on your systems? Are they free of LLM written code? I'm going to guess the answer to that question is no, unless you're running NetBSD or OpenBSD with few additional packages
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Show threadJens Finkhäuser2d ago
@erincandescent @cas Indeed.