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▶Plasma Mobile Anonymous 10/12/17 (Thu) 04:07:15 No.805037>>805434 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

>Fully FOSS

>Can potentially run many Qt/GTK/X110-based apps (with apt)

>Integrates with Plasma desktop

Seems a little hipster but might be a better choice over Android Custom ROMs if you absolutely require a smartphone. What is the /tech/ verdict?

https://plasma-mobile.org/

▶Anonymous 10/12/17 (Thu) 04:19:22 No.805040>>805080 >>805301 >>805308 >>812283

It's two years old and their website is a botnet. The OS itself is systemd/pulseaudio cancer. All ontop of a Nexus botnet because propreitary firmware ala lineage OS. Just fuck that shit, i'm not paying upfront more for less of a botnet I could already unbotnet to their extent on said device.

Even normies aren't going to like this if pre-ordered as less of a botnet because it will be slow.

▶Anonymous 10/12/17 (Thu) 09:00:11 No.805080>>805115 >>805119 >>805213

>>805040

What's with all that botnet buzzwording?

▶Anonymous 10/12/17 (Thu) 12:38:48 No.805110>>805301

>fonts.googleapis.con

▶Anonymous 10/12/17 (Thu) 13:17:41 No.805115

>>805080

/tech/ botnet

▶Anonymous 10/12/17 (Thu) 13:33:41 No.805119

>>805080

He doesn't know anything technical so he's just spamming garbage

▶Anonymous 10/12/17 (Thu) 19:10:58 No.805213

>>805080

/tech/'s sole barrier to entry is a captcha that even IRL streetshitters can get past and you wonder why the IQ here dips so low? Really?

▶Anonymous 10/12/17 (Thu) 23:34:16 No.805301>>805304 >>805308 >>805395

>>805040

>proprietary firmware

Is there literally anything that solves this for smartphones? Librem 5 might but it's two years in the future and don't seem particularly trustworthy given the state of their laptops.

>botnet botnet botnet systemd/pulseaudio

Yeah your opinion has been discarded.

>>805110

You realize we're talking about the OS here right?

▶Anonymous 10/12/17 (Thu) 23:52:42 No.805304>>805308 >>805310

>>805301

>what is a replicant samsung galaxy 2

But it still had android components and the bootloader is locked down.

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 00:20:21 No.805308>>805315 >>805410

>>805040

>le botnet maymay

Kill yourself you double nigger.

>>805301

>>proprietary firmware

>and don't seem particularly trustworthy given the state of their laptops.

What's wrong with Purism laptops?

>>805304

>it's still Android

Irrelevant. Replicant replaces all the nonfree libraries needed at compile time with it's own, free libraries. This, and the new runtime, is why it's stuck at 4.4 instead of a more modern release.

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 00:22:57 No.805310>>805323

>>805304

>replicant samsung galaxy 2

https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyS2I9100

<Proprietary hardware

<Proprietary firmwares, some of which arefirmwares loaded by the system

<Proprietary modem system

<Proprietary bootrom

<Proprietary and signed bootloader

<Ass old

How is it better in any conceivable aspect other than a free OS?

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 00:28:34 No.805315>>805395 >>805552

>>805308

They come with nonfree firmware and intel ME, the usual complaints. It's basically just installing a free OS on a normal manufacturer's laptop with higher specs.

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 01:12:17 No.805323

>>805310

The hardware is always proprietary. But you don't have to use non-free firmware if you don't want too use it with it for anything. Except for the bootloader that is. Event the broadband modem is free for 3g.

So fuck off faggot.

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 03:02:28 No.805357

I'd love to try this or Replicant but they're both compatible with only a literal handful of phones. The assortment is so bare that most people interested would have to buy a new device just to install.

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 05:05:51 No.805395>>805552

>>805315

>>805301

Don't the new Librem lappies ship with coreboot+me_cleaner yet? They got all worked up about it and stuff not too long ago. Too bad it's designed to replace the Macbook Pro.

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 05:34:14 No.805410

>>805308

>This, and the new runtime, is why it's stuck at 4.4 instead of a more modern release

explain?

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 08:18:20 No.805434>>806309 >>806902 >>806942

>>805037 (OP)

> Linux

No thanks.

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 18:25:25 No.805552>>805553 >>806977

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>>805315

>>805395

They ship with Coreboot (or at least it can be easily installed) but they're having problems with EME. The usual shit when the laptop will shut down after 30 minutes.

These are not Purism problems, it's Intel's fault and there's no way to disable EME without the 30 minutes bullshit.

>They come with nonfree firmware

They don't. The entire thing runs with Linux-Libre and Coreboot making it much better than most offerings out there. Purism is even attempting to receive FSF's seal of approval.

>It's basically just installing a free OS on a normal manufacturer's laptop with higher specs.

Except Purism laptops are easier to repair/upgrade to the point you could change the CPU and RAM, as well as throw in an additional SSD. Or the fact that they have hardware switches that sever the camera/radio/microphone circuit so they are 100 % disabled.

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 18:32:05 No.805553

>>805552

As of this month EME may be fixable to an extent but I'm not sure how far purism is on that. I think their distro is FSF approved but they're flailing on hardware.

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 19:06:42 No.805564>>805581 >>805688

>only supports Nexus 5 and Nexus 5X

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 19:37:29 No.805581

>>805564

Well now that there's a librem phone coming up they'll have a pure reference device to work on, hopefully.

▶Anonymous 10/13/17 (Fri) 23:32:14 No.805688

>>805564

Officially yes, but if you have an Ubuntu Touch-compatible phone you can install Plasma Mobile over it. https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=297&t=127502

▶Anonymous 10/15/17 (Sun) 22:52:55 No.806309

>>805434

EBIN TROLL POST CUNFIRMED xd

▶Anonymous 10/17/17 (Tue) 08:00:56 No.806740

It'll be installable on the Librem 5, so that'll be cool.

Everything KDE touches is hot garbage, though. I would actually prefer a GNOME-based mobile interface for a phone. It would at least be consistent and look nice. With real GNU/Linux underneath it'll always be riceable.

▶Anonymous 10/17/17 (Tue) 21:33:16 No.806902

>>805434

t. cuck

▶Anonymous 10/17/17 (Tue) 23:20:10 No.806942

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