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  • I can’t knock this if you see this as a business opportunity or a means to support your work on open source

    I don’t intend to run it as a profit making business, i do say my dream would be able to quit my job and do open source full time, sadly that does require money since i need to eat. So i would like to make as little profit as possible but enough that i can pay myself a living wage.

    but my impression is that over time these patches will be upstreamed and the installation will be simple(ish?)

    Ofcourse! This is still happening, this would be for the people that just want it out of the box or could otherwise not purchase one.



  • Currently that does nothing im afraid.

    If I understand correctly on the top bar it would for example start on wifi, announce wifi, then on a flick to the right it will select and announce the mobile data?

    Is the flick in the center of the screen edge to edge or from the element?

    Im not sure if plasma-mobile has a concept of focus like desktop has, if it does this should be a relatively easy addition.






  • Honestly if there is demand, which judging from the comments here there is. I might start selling them with pmos and prepatched so they work out of the box.

    I can buy the phones here in the Netherlands for €395 currently, tax and shipping and stuff does still need to be added to that.

    Would that be interesting for you?

    I would rather not want to charge a markup as that goes against my values but I would like to have some compensation for my time doing these as this is a per unit time cost instead of a one time cost as with software.

    As a potential customer would you agree more with a small markup (think like €15 maybe) or an optional donation?


  • Not yet, for development I have to completely wipe it regularly which makes having all my data on there a bit inconvenient.

    Once I’m done with the hardware development I do plan on using it as my main phone, cause why go trough all this trouble otherwise?

    Battery life is fine enough, lasts about a day with my current, for example I turn wifi power saving and suspend off cause otherwise my ssh drops if i turn off the screen for long time, I made a somewhat detailed power analysis in my first post here.

    Calls are dependable, haven’t tested SMS yet.

    The only thing about calls is that imsd currently doesn’t support emergency calls which I do plan on adding in the future, but testing it is a crime, so I need to figure that out.


  • I know, that’s why I asked how would it be build under anarchism, not under anti-capitalism.

    My question was really how could something as logistically complex as a semiconductor fab be build without some organization to coordinate it.

    But as @BeatL@pawb.social said if anarchism = no unjust hierarchy then that is no problem. As there is still a organization coordinating things just not an unjust one?

    I admit I’m not very knowledgeable about anarchism.

    I don’t really associate anarchism with the global supply chains necessary to build and run a semiconductor fab. But I suppose I am mistaken then?