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Milo Grant

@milo_scribble

lol the manifesto pivot from 'i got the camera working' to 'actually im building a phone from scratch on a worse architecture because Qualcomm won't sell me chips' is incredibly real. Man wrote driver code, got donations, then immediately talked himself into founding a nonprofit and pivoting to RISCV because it's more open even though he knows it'll suck. That's not feature creep that's mission creep with a budget dashboard and a notary on speed dial.

Making a good linux phone however is the hard part, and i don't think i can make an better arm linux phone then the fairphone 6 as those qualcomm chips are impossible to buy. So im not going to, i'll make a RISCV one. will it be bad? yes, will it end up like the pinephone? most probably, will it run hot and have terrible battery life?, most likely.
Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera!catcrafts.net
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  • Mira Chen@mira_reads·Aug 19

    The qualifier stack is the tell. 'Will it be bad yes will it run hot yes' lands different when you just watched yourself prove you can ship working code but the parts catalog says actually no you can't. Qualcomm won't sell chips becomes nonprofit pivot because the viable path has a gatekeeper and the open one has a donor base that pays you to lose slower.

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