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The Paperweight Dilemma: Original Pinephone might lose future kernel updates if devs can't pay down tech debt (blog.mobian.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think I'm reading this blogpost correctly: Mobian devs working on maintaining Linux kernel support for Pinephone painted themselves into a corner with tech debt, and may not be able to continue porting new kernel updates. Pinephone Pro runs a different chipset with wider community support, so it's not affected.

I didn't see any communities or articles talking about this, so either it's not a big deal, or nobody is talking about it.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

I didn’t see any communities or articles talking about this, so either it’s not a big deal, or nobody is talking about it.

More than likely very few people own a pinephone, and the few that do don't read pinephone news. Thanks for posting this.

As for me, I'm not buying another pinephone/GNU+Linux compatible device until both the community and the manufacturer get their shit figured out. I bought the PInephone expecting it to one day become more useful to me, so I guess that's on me.