Crowdfunder for a free/open phone crosses $1M mark

I don’t regularly keep up with these types of phones, but i figure that having options in that space is likely a good thing.

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Hopefully the answer is no, yes.

Wireless charging is wasteful and generates lethal pollution when implemented on a global or national scale. It’s not worth giving grandma and little baby Timmy lung cancer just so ten thousand peoploids don’t have to plug in a wire. (Of course if your energy comes from solar - go for it, wireless charge your heart out!)

My first thought was “Hey, this is cool. Finally, a phone that will run Linux”.
My second thought was “Oh, too expensive”.

As I understand it, and I’m not a programmer, Android OS is open source and can be modified for special purposes. Can someone explain why this approach is preferable to that, where you have access to the app ecosystem?

Because android is shit - you can’t update libraries via repo, only by flashing an image. Shit design by a shit designer who should have known better.

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