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  • I’ve not met a single person who disagrees with this system.

    Well consider me the first.

    Then first the plan won’t work, those dorms will be run by the very government politicians they are supposed to make miserable. so they won’t.

    And why must that be a goal in the first place? Instead of improving democracy so that politicians aren’t in the pockets of PACs and actually represent the people, you want to just make them both miserable and now unelected.

    If you want that random people are in charge instead of politicians a direct democracy system will work far better then this.







  • I have been summoned.

    If the question is about apps then yes postmarketos can run any linux executable compiled for arm. When you run it with a DE like plasma mobile you can run any normal wayland program like on desktop, but keep in mind the program must be display responsive otherwise it will be very hard to work with.

    I don’t know about a lemmy app but yes there are mail, browsers and YouTube apps that also scale properly to the mobile form factor.

    Personally I wouldn’t recommend waydroid unless you absolutely need it, for most things there is a native linux app.





  • Out of curiosity, are you cooperating with postmarketOS or Fairphone on this in any way?

    Sort of, i have contact with Luca Weiss via email mostly on the linux mailing list, he is part of the pmos core team and works at fairphone but i don’t have offcial contact with both organizations. I tried to become a fairphone partner but thus far they haven’t responded and i don’t think they will. Which is quite a shame.

    I’m wondering why they didn’t manage to do anything like this with all the resources they have?

    I don’t have the knowledge to make a conclusion on that so i won’t, but in keep in mind i’m not starting from 0, the fact that it even boots linux in the first place is work done by Luca.

    I assumed it’s simply not possible because of locked drivers and that we will have to wait for something like the next version of Pineophone to get fully working Linux phone.

    Unless its cryptographically signed its always possible, it just becomes alot harder. Fairphone is pretty good in this aspect as they publish alot of usefull sources.




  • I used logcat aswell as just reading form /proc/tzdbg/qsee_log for this.

    the general steps go as follows:

    1. Decide on what part to bring up
    2. Go into the manual and find what pins it is on for the fingerprint sensor that is these:

    1. Poke these pins to see if i can bring up the sensor, see if i can talk to it. The power rail worked fine, but the data pins were blocked behind the TEE. So started a whole new adventure.

    2. I flashed android again as i needed more information, capturing the logs. Which i didn’t really do great as i had to flash android several times over again but oh well.

    3. Then its a ton of work comparing against the android logs, adjusting your linux code, looking at the logs that come out of that. This part is not especially hard, its just pulling threads until it works pretty much, but its really boring. What made this process 10x more annoying is that i couldn’t attach a debugger because it was running in the TEE.

    4. Then test it, record the video, make the post.

    5. If its going to the kernel export the patch and write the messages and cover letter. Run it trough the AI review, fix any issues that comes out of that, and finally send.

    This the general process, i would suggest starting with an easy part first.

    For me, as long as i have a thread to pull on then its not really hard, just a ton of work.

    The nightmare scenario is that it doesn’t work and you have no idea why. Then it gets hard.