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A small project to help out anyone trying to keep their old devices functional.

I wrote a script to scrape pages of some popular alternative OS projects (such as postmarketOS and LineageOS), and put them into a single list. I'll try to automate and keep this up-to-date. Any additional OS suggestions and comments are welcome!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

All my old devices became unusable due to the flash memory chip degrading. Unless they can run off SD card?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What device?

The flash should be rated for something like 100,000 - 1,000,000 writes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

what its like when that happens? does it just not power on anymore? fails to boot? boots but works erratically?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Starts getting slower and slower over months, then yeah starts failing to boot, sometimes works if you pull the battery and retry, and eventually doesn't work at all anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Alas, no. You could hypothetically replace the board though, which would allow you to continue using the rest of the hardware. But you have to source the part, and switch it out, which isn't always possible