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3mo ago

Building a Linux Phone
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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago
Sounds reasonable. maybe take 3 months. spend about 30-50 hours working on this and see you can sustain the motivation to do this. then decide what to do next.

3mo ago

Would you use this app?: 'Subscription' to FOSS

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

I wouldn't. id rather give it to some FOSS non profit that would allocate the resources intelligently tbh.

3mo ago

Building a Linux Phone

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

Still, i try to act like an environmentalist and that means not buying stuff i don't need. also a big part of that money will go to funding manufacturing costs and the development of new products for the same product line. unlike a campaign where a larger share of the money will go to developing a phone (and some of the money will go to give a return on investment to the owner, which is something i am fine with as long as there is no non-profit that can do the same work better).

Also for the CEO or board of directors it will be harder or even impossible to deduce that this signals a interest in a FOSS friendly smartphone.

3mo ago

Building a Linux Phone

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

Very Interesting. any ETA? will it have faster hardware like a faster CPU? will there be a fundraising campaign like kickstarter?

3mo ago

Building a Linux Phone

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

Thanks for the suggestions! I’m not actually looking for any donations though. It probably sounds weird, but I don’t want to derive value from this, or even assign value to it, in the interest of keeping the information as freely accessible as possible. Not too get too ideological, seeking money often causes people to make a good idea bad, or to make a simple process inefficient, to make more money from it. I’m thankfully in a position where I can keep (slowly) working on this project in my free time, while still keeping my head above water.

If you want to not get paid that is fine. but donating is the only way some people will be able to help make this happen. you could hire people using something like fiverr to do some of the boring stuff. money is just an efficient way to store and transfer economic resources. There is a significant difference often between a how a non profit allocates a economic resources vs a company that is owned by pension funds and mutual funds and is just trying to maximize a return on investment. Some of the best open source projects (e.g. blender signal thunderbird etc) hire full time workers.

3mo ago

Building a Linux Phone

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

When dealing with stuff like kickstarter campaigns. some people might not to risk the full amount (something like 600$), they might be interested in donating something like 10$ to help the project put out a product. then read up on reviews and decide if to go for it.

3mo ago

Building a Linux Phone

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

I suggest adding a license . i recommend a copyleft license (there are copyleft licenses for hardware. for example the cern licenses).

I also suggest setting up a open collective. i suspect people might be more inclined to donate to a non profit then to for profit companies like purism and Pine64.

3mo ago

Building a Linux Phone

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

When i look at postmarketos device wiki . librem 5 seems better, the chart lists the pinephone support for things like calls and SMS as partial. the librem 5 is the more expensive option but it seems like in practice at least some of the money for it went to good use. freedom isn't free i guess.

3mo ago

Building a Linux Phone

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

Purism is already working on a Librem 5 version 2.

Do you have a source? i could not find anything.

4mo ago

Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Why do you ask?

grok came up with this:

Some libraries implement free data formats that are competing against restricted data formats, such as Ogg Vorbis (which competes against MP3 audio) and WebM (which competes against MPEG-4 video). The success of the free format requires allowing many proprietary application programs to link in the code to handle the format. For instance, we wanted nonfree media players, especially appliances, to include the code for Ogg Vorbis as well as MP3.

In these special situations, if you are aiming to convince proprietary application developers to use the library for the free format, you would need to make that easy by licensing the library under a weak license, such as the Apache License 2.0.

4mo ago

Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

I like copyleft and have convinced about 7 projects to convert to copyleft. but in this case its such a small project i don't really see anyone turning it into some proprietary project and the project losing a lot of contributions because of it. Also even the FSF says that permissive licenses might be better when you implementing standards (And i think you could argue this project is at least partially a implementation of posix).

4mo ago

Foss - OnTime: Presentation timer app for speakers at live events

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Definitely OK to promote as long as it is done in a way that is considerate (and that is your case). i suggest also cross posting to more active open source communities like !opensource@lemmy.ml

4mo ago

Servo 0.0.1 released!

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

They report a score which is not very correlated with the number of tests passed (there was a big increase in the number of tests that pass in 2023 but the score barely rose). I could not figure out how to show the score for other browsers on wpt.fyi.

4mo ago

The instance chooser is filling up nicely

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

I don't really know if i should use this abstract metric. other people i think will have similar feelings. seeing a breakdown of the metrics with the bus number seems clearer to me (maybe add "show more"?) . the "defederation" line also seems kinda cryptic. what is the difference between "good" and "Negligent"?.

4mo ago

Bazzite surpasses 30k active users, gaining 5k users since two months ago 🎉

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Lemmy has a similar number of active users and makes about 3K . That money would be good for the ecosystem and could help fund upstream projects (I am sure wine could use the money for example). But they will have to use fundraising methods similar to lemmy to reach that number (popup, good message etc)

The donate page is kinda a mess IMO to be honest. There should be one organisation to donate to otherwise this creates overchoice.

4mo ago

Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Isn't basically any software like mastodon where you change the maximum length of posts to be long enough a good alternative? say 1 million words per post.

For group discussions there is piefed/lemmy. And mobilizon for events. for reviews there is neodb.

When i last tried friendica. it was missing the feature which i thought was really good on facebook. seeing what people i appreciate are into by seeing stuff like movies and or even things like meditation or stoicism on their profile page. and maybe reviews of businesses

4mo ago

Piefed finally fixes Lemmy’s ugly post URLs

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.

See the 1.0 milestone for lemmy and lemmy-ui . you can see both what they intend to do and what they already did.

5mo ago

The instance chooser is filling up nicely

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

My ideal page would include:

A review system with average ratings , number of ratings , average "recent ratings" like on steam "recent reviews", ability to rewrite reviews and give them a rating on scale of 1 to 10. maybe neodb can help implement that.
bus factor: how many people can disappear from the management of the instance and i will be OK.

5mo ago

Bonfire Social 1.0rc3 release

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

I would go with the short explanation of fediverse platform built for customization and extension as a one sentence explanation.

besides you could just try it.

5mo ago

More Distributed Moderation for PieFed

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

With all the reports on countries manipulating online content. that's like leaving your house in a crime ridden Neighbourhood with the door wide option. as far as i know there is no way to prevent bots when dealing with a highly sophisticated actor like china (which meta reported manipulated online content).

One thing that can help is keeping states about reports user made. if say 90% of the reports are good and the number of reports is say over 50 the person can become a mod. you could also have chart scoring who is the best reporter. The number can be tweaked and you could do some statistical analysis finding the optimal numbers.