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ollieparanoid
Personal blog · ollieparanoid.github.io/post · on HN as ollieparanoidsystemshardware
ollieparanoid is a personal blog at ollieparanoid.github.io about systems and hardware. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link these posts about postmarketOS, a Linux distribution for phones, including booting Android on i.MX6 without proprietary blobs and running Firefox on postmarketOS devices.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-26
- PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year security nightmare2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-03
What Hacker News says?
Not yet, it is in a pretty early state: > Most drivers don't work so you can't make phone calls or use the WiFi. https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/postmarketOS/#prototype EDIT: SMS also do not work. In other words, what works is the touchscreen with Weston so far. But the underlying tooling (pmbootstrap) is pretty far, so that's why I have released it now.
Comment linking /post/postmarketOS/
on “PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones”Submitted PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones as a story · 468 points
HN discussionWho said, that we are "two guys"? I've started with this alone, before I considered pmbootstrap good enough. Since I've released it, we have 40-60 people hanging out in the irc/matrix channel, and a good bunch of them are actually contributing to either this project or other projects with which we share efforts. The big difference compared with Android and everything based on Android/AOSP is, that we keep the effort…
Comment linking /post/postmarketOS/
on “50 days of postmarketOS”Submitted 50 days of postmarketOS as a story · 219 points
HN discussionAn interesting target for postmarketOS: https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/postmarketOS/
Comment linking /post/postmarketOS/
on “It's Now Possible to Boot Android on I.MX6 Platforms Without Proprietary Blobs”Submitted PostmarketOS: Overwhelmed by feedback and next steps as a story · 73 points
HN discussionI'm considering switching from Android to iOS because I don't want to throw away my phone once my 2-4 years of security updates are over. How do firmware updates factor into your thinking around Android and security? Is there a way off of the "buy a new phone if you want firmware updates" treadmill? (I don't expect you to have a solution, but I'm curious to hear how you're thinking about this problem.) See-also: htt…
Comment linking /post/security-warning/
on “AMA: Gaël Duval, founder of the de-Googled Android OS /e/”Submitted PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year security nightmare as a story · 13 points
HN discussionYou mean like this Firefox running on postmarketOS: https://ollieparanoid.github.io/img/2017-05-26/i9100/firefox... ? He is using the Alpine Linux user space for that.
Comment linking /img/2017-05-26/i9100/firefox.jpg
on “PostmarketOS: Overwhelmed by feedback and next steps”
