• Kynn@jlai.lu
    1 day

    It’s kinda hard to accept they are debuting paid work on something that only works on pre-2022 devices… I do understand the recycling idea behind this, but next time I change my phone and look up for a linux compatible phone, I already know I won’t be buying a pre-2022 device :(…

    • Solrac@lemmy.world
      12 hours

      There are more recent devices (ie Fairphone 5) that seem to be pretty good spot (check the wiki, and regardless this is a really good phone to get) But I get your point.

    • texture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24 hours

      perhaps there are markets where this is much more common than we are used to.

  • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr
    2 days

    After trying to run postmarketos on an old phone of mine, I’m really excited for anything that improves support for android devices to mainline linux !

  • Squizzy@lemmy.world
    2 days

    Whybis the camera such an issue for linuxphones? The few I checked had untested or partial results for camera.

    • non_burglar@lemmy.world
      2 days

      Openness. Most cameras for android phones are proprietary because it’s easier to save money by not having a common controller for cameras and just using a proprietary blob.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.world
        2 days

        But are the sensors not third party, generally Sony or zeiss?

        Pure pain, similar with graphene, the pixel camera is a selling point and it is sbite on graphene.

        There if a foss pixel camera app that does a good job though

        • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
          2 days

          Right. But the processing pipeline is not. If you took one single image from the sensor of the pixel or iPhone it would look like ass compared to what the processed one looks like. The poeple capable of writing those pipelines don’t typically do it for free.

          • Squizzy@lemmy.world
            2 days

            Interesting, is it called the camera processing pipeline? Id be interested in reading some more and seeing if there is a foss project

            • Horsey@lemmy.world
              12 hours

              I highly doubt there would be one. I imagine entire optics engineering departments are deployed to write that software. Phone manufacturers don’t usually write that software either; it’s more often than not licensed.

              Fun fact, Sony’s phones break the camera software if you root them. I wonder how much of it is to protect their blobs.

        • jlow@slrpnk.net
          2 days

          OpenCamera? Used it for years but on my FP5 the auto brightness / exposure is only working 10% of the time 😭

            • monovergent@lemmy.ml
              2 days

              Shutter times are ridiculous on mine. The preview will be perfectly focused already, but then it takes a good second to actually capture, by that time it might already have lost focus. Capture resolution aside, it’s literally faster to screenshot the preview. And got into an argument with a friend once because the shutter time made miss a shot.