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No the fuck they don’t. The small business owners they like are actually big businesses cosplaying as small businesses.

On voyager, it shows up as newline. That’s an odd one.

I'm personally not pissed but I'm not sure if they're missing something or not. Or just old fashioned ragebaiting. If it's ragebaiting, they got me.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something or not.

I was referring to the Arduino phone. In general you're not wrong.

The scope of the conversation is just the phone itself.

Hardware was designed first, and then they applied software.

Edit: when I meant necessity for the cut down software. I meant it as in "the Arduino is barely fast enough to run the software, any extraneous thing needs to go"

Which already exists and has existed for ages.

Lineage os (Android), e/os (Android), postmarket os (straight up Linux) would all be excellent answers for cutdown/debloatable mobile phone OSes. (also Ubuntu touch and whatever the pinephone shipped with)

Its probably a lot harder making an unintrusive os than it is making this.

This is cutdown hardware leading to simplified and cutdown software as it's a necessity here.

I wouldn't consider it reinventing the wheel. Giant algae tanks to replace trees is reinventing the wheel. They're just making a phone out of parts that would have originally been in a cheap phone at one point (before they got turned into development boards).

If I wanted to be super uncharitable, what the maker did was akin to this.

https://youtu.be/d59J78yhwtg

I think they're having more fun making it than looking for a perfect solution. The fastest way to accomplish this is just buying some flipphone from Kyocera or something.

Also it's a prototype. It wouldn't survive in the real world in it's current state.

I wanted more up to date packages in the “stable” branch of updates and less kernel updates (I already have a debian laptop using testing or unstable packages). It’s fine. I’m just gonna yeet snap. I’m using it for ML and Data Science stuff for school work. I can easily explain Ubuntu to people.

In the modern day, I agree. Dunno about 30 years ago.