Mastodawn

The Key2 family up to date. January 2026 security patch, Android 15.

Well, almost. There's still some polishing up to do but overall the port is in good shape. The regular Key2 has more issues than LE currently (and that is so sad - much nicer device). Apart from some modem firmware issues (Damn you BlackBerry for not releasing Pie!!!) the rest of the issues are very simple and should be fixed really soon. Feels good.

#lineageos #android #blackberry

Igor (BotchedRPR)Dec 7

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What's also important: all earlier co-op and funding from AuroraOS many years back (of Russia) has been cut off by Jolla.

Sailfish OS is NOT 100% closed source, as some still claim it to be. Jolla has also promised that the REMAINING blobs will be opened. There are good reasons for this situation.

95% of Sailfish OS bases on free / open source software. The OS itself utilize Linux kernel (which is open source). Mer that was used is open-source. Qt Framework API's base on open-source Qt API's.

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Igor (BotchedRPR)Dec 6

@elly @gray @gischpelino @jolla

Exactly. I'm a very happy person running an (almost) entirely open and ported by me boot chain on my MTK. I would've never had that privilege on Qualcomm chips. I hate people screaming "Mediatek is proprietary bullshit!" because of the chinese phone markets of 2012-2015 where nobody shared kernel source. Blame it on the vendor? Hell no, what a great phone they sold me... hmm... who to blame it on... my other phones have Qualcomm. It has to be MediaTek then!!!

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Igor (BotchedRPR)Dec 5

@gischpelino @gray @jolla

Pick the lesser evil.
SailfishOS is a (mostly) open source OS thats gradually opening up. Firmware is closed.
Android with GMS is a closed source OS (if we are talking about device distributions). Firmware is closed too.

Besides that, due to regulations and other stuff, no SoC will ever be fully "open". Even ath10k has proprietary blobs.

Igor (BotchedRPR)Dec 5

jolla Dec 5

Meet the independent European Do It Together Linux phone.
The new Jolla Phone is now open for pre-orders at https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

#Jolla #SailfishOS #DeGoogle #european #DigitalSovereignty #CommunityPowered

Igor (BotchedRPR)Nov 21

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Anil Dash Nov 15

By all means, use Firefox and don't use AI. I don't give a damn about that, that's great. But think about this question deeply: What browser do you want your friends and family to use when they're using AI tools? We told people "social media from big companies is bad, get on Mastodon and Bluesky". And that works — provide useful alternatives. But if we simply say "stop using this thing you find useful, and I won't give you any alternatives", they'll just ignore us. And Big AI will win.

Igor (BotchedRPR)Nov 20

Another victim...

#uboot #mobilelinux #postmarketOS

Igor (BotchedRPR)Nov 13

Lynne Nov 11

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f076ef44a44d02ed91543f820c14c2c7dff53716
I think about this ever so often, and I wonder, how did they fuck this up so hard?
How? The company shouldn't even exist after such a fuck-up.

rtc: rk808: Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st · torvalds/linux@f076ef4

In A.D. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII found that the existing Julian calendar insufficiently represented reality, and changed the rules about calculating leap years to account for this. Similarly, in A.D....

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Igor (BotchedRPR)Nov 11

@flypig Top-tier music choice :) Love the progress diaries too obviously as a person who mostly does low, low level stuff.

Igor (BotchedRPR)Oct 11

I've sent off the first one of many #uboot enablement patches for the MT6878/CMF Phone 1

Starting off with: UFS :)
https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/2025101[email protected]/