• moitoi@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    EU should double down with a regulation stipulating that people are free to install whatever OS they want on devices (smartphones included) and companies can’t gatekeep it.

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      9 months ago

      the problem is firmware. the community has been porting postmarketos to android phones for years, there are a ton of phones where PmOS will boot but most things like camera, phone service or bluetooth won’t work because they are missing the firmware necessary.

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        9 months ago

        I didn’t get in the details. But, of course, a such regulation includes the availability of the firmware.

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          9 months ago

          It’d be one hell of a battle considering companies would probably just pull a Microsoft and release the specifications as horrendously as possibly so no one can use them but their army of devs