11mo ago

mikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacy

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14041182

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11mo ago

mikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacy

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11mo ago

mikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacy

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For fuck’s sake, stop making company/product names that are homophones of normal English words with “creative” spelling.
“I bought a mikroPhone the other day”.
“Oh, I didn’t know you sang?”
“…what?”
- ...yknow other languages than English exist right?
  
  Ways to say microphone
  Albanian mikrofon Basque mikrofonoa Belarusian мікрафон [mikrafon] Bosnian mikrofon Bulgarian микрофон [mikrofon] Catalan micròfon Corsican microfonu Croatian mikrofon Czech mikrofon Danish mikrofon Dutch microfoon Estonian mikrofon Finnish mikrofoni French microphone Frisian mikrofoan Galician micrófono German Mikrofon Greek μικρόφωνο [mikrófono] Hungarian mikrofon Icelandic hljóðnema Irish micreafón Italian microfono Latvian mikrofons Lithuanian mikrofonas Luxembourgish Mikrofon Macedonian микрофон [mikrofon] Maltese mikrofonu Norwegian mikrofon Polish mikrofon Portuguese microfone Romanian microfon Russian микрофон [mikrofon] Scots Gaelic micreofon Serbian микрофон [mikrofon] Slovak mikrofón Slovenian mikrofon Spanish micrófono Swedish mikrofon Tatar микрофон Ukrainian мікрофон [mikrofon] Welsh meicroffon Yiddish מיקראָפאָן [mikrofon]
  
  I’d argue that this still tracks in Dutch or German.
Really they should be making it for existing phones. The mobile Linux scene is pretty barren
- The problem is that phone hardware is incredibly non-standard. Every model requires custom tweaks and regular bug fixes, which is why there aren't many phones with good Linux support or with enduring LineageOS support or any other specialty OS. Every manufacturer does their own thing and edits Android to fit their hardware, but they generally don't release the custom drivers or any documentation. The same phone model from a different year or different region might have a different chipset in it. Keeping up with it is basically impossible, by the time an aftermarket developer gets their custom OS build running properly the phone is obsolete.
  On the other hand, if a project can pick the hardware platform for themselves then everything is more manageable.
  
  I suppose manufacturers don’t usually play well with others.
- It's extremely difficult since every phone SOC has its own closed proprietary blob of drivers that's required to make use of it.
  
  Doesn't the ESP32 module this project is using require the same thing?
- I keep thinking if they could make a phone that you just assemble like a computer and can change the parts to upgrade. I don't care it would be bit bulky. But I assume they wouldn't make as much money if people won't buy entire new phones every two years.
I propose that we delete the actual phone app. There's no rhyme or reason to actually have a stupid phone number that nobody can remember. Simply replace it with a fediverse name handle and let's move forward with the rest of our lives.
Secondly, I propose encrypted communication where I will allow o only a select few people to actually call me. If anyone else wants to call me, you can register in my phone access app and I will approve it for next call.

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