never buying hardware that could support alternate OSs, but doesn't
next phone will be the dumbest one i can find
so tired of half baked software and pointless pseudo updates
what's the point of advertising "four versions"?
is the hardware of the samsung s6 so fucking slow compared to a similarly priced current phone from samsung, that it can't run the latest android? Or is it because they need us to buy new hardware as often as possible?
why can a fifteen year old computer, with their *uncountab
never buying hardware that could support alternate OSs, but doesn't next phone will be the dumbest one i can find
You might have a look at the Pine64's PinePhone, which not only has a low-ish price, but in addition has been designed with opensource (runs on mainline kernel) and community in mind.
why can a fifteen year old computer, with their *uncountable* hardware configurations run the latest OSes, from microsoft and the OSS community, but a 4-5 year old phone with *very specific* hardware can't?
Because of - as Mac hardware users are going to discover in the coming years of Apple silicon (M1 and its future descendant): Lack of standard.
Your fifteen year old computer follows some very standard way to organise everything (UEFI or BIOS firmware, ACPI, standard discoverable PCI/PCIe bus, etc.) take any standard compliant Linux boot stick or boot CD and you can plug it into your 15 y.o. workstation or in the latest x86 laptop, and it will run the same.
The ARM thing in your pocket is a jumble of quickly cobbled together hardware in whichever way was on the mood of the engineer at that precise moment. There's no standard way to design something that you can plug into multilpe different devices (though there are some efforts to get some UEFI standards: Raspberry Pi 4, some Windows ARM ultrabooks, etc.)
useless bullshit (Score:3)
aka "marketing".
never buying hardware that could support alternate OSs, but doesn't
next phone will be the dumbest one i can find
so tired of half baked software and pointless pseudo updates
what's the point of advertising "four versions"?
is the hardware of the samsung s6 so fucking slow compared to a similarly priced current phone from samsung, that it can't run the latest android? Or is it because they need us to buy new hardware as often as possible?
why can a fifteen year old computer, with their *uncountab
opensource-friendly phones (Score:2)
never buying hardware that could support alternate OSs, but doesn't
next phone will be the dumbest one i can find
You might have a look at the Pine64's PinePhone, which not only has a low-ish price, but in addition has been designed with opensource (runs on mainline kernel) and community in mind.
why can a fifteen year old computer, with their *uncountable* hardware configurations run the latest OSes, from microsoft and the OSS community, but a 4-5 year old phone with *very specific* hardware can't?
Because of - as Mac hardware users are going to discover in the coming years of Apple silicon (M1 and its future descendant):
Lack of standard.
Your fifteen year old computer follows some very standard way to organise everything (UEFI or BIOS firmware, ACPI, standard discoverable PCI/PCIe bus, etc.)
take any standard compliant Linux boot stick or boot CD and you can plug it into your 15 y.o. workstation or in the latest x86 laptop, and it will run the same.
The ARM thing in your pocket is a jumble of quickly cobbled together hardware in whichever way was on the mood of the engineer at that precise moment.
There's no standard way to design something that you can plug into multilpe different devices (though there are some efforts to get some UEFI standards: Raspberry Pi 4, some Windows ARM ultrabooks, etc.)