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Csepp 🌢

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Trying to replace a battery in a Xiaomi has taught me a few things so far:
- batteries are fucking scary
- flat top ribbon cable connectors are way too easy to damage
- adhesive strips are very easy to tear
- never ever buy again

Chiefly that last one. Fuck every company making phones with glued-in batteries. This shit should be illegal.

Foolish me already bought a spare battery. Well, at least it was a cheap one. Gonna at least do a walk of shame with it to a repair shop and ask them to pretty please fix what I broke. Good thing I already backed everything up from it.

cc:

edit: actually, having stockholm syndrome for abusive companies is not your fault, but still, don't make excuses for them.

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csepp@merveilles.town

Csepp 🌢

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What I would give for a *reliable* open hardware feature phone that was *just* smart enough to run some encrypted chat apps... and also for chat apps like to support such devices.

No, the is not this. Sadly.

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csepp@merveilles.town

Csepp 🌢

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Maybe cursed idea, but... you can already run Linux on the modem... so like, if you just wanted a phone that can make calls... what do you even need the rest of the phone for? Imagine what the battery life could be if the main SOC was replaced with something more minimal. Maybe completely eliminated, idk, I'm not an electronics expert.

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dos@librem.one

Sebastian Krzyszkowiak

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@csepp > what do you even need the rest of the phone for?

Let's see... screen, cameras, GPU, VPU, WiFi, Bluetooth, battery charging, more RAM and flash than 256MB (part of which is used up by proprietary firmware)...

If all you want is "just calls", you can easily design a simple board around EG25/BM818 (or something else better suited) in no time. But you'll then want to "just" add SMS. Then just USSD. Then just MMS. Then just IM. Then just encryption. Then... It's never "just calls" :)

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ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social

Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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@csepp *insert Xzibit meme here*

We knew you liked your SoCs so we put a SoC in your SoC

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@csepp This would actually be fun project to do. Open source featurephone would be nice, and yes, it is doable, just a lot of work. Oh and look here : https://mikrophone.net/history.html
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