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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I have one. It’s slow and unstable, no good browser, no good Signal client and an almost unusable camera and GPS.

    All these things kind of sorta work. But not in any satisfying capacity.

    It’s especially baffling to me that it seems to be impossible to make a modern smartphone with even a small fraction of the power of a PC. It must be hardware or driver issue because devices like the Steam Deck or Raspberry Pi show that the software is perfectly capable of delivering a good experience. And Android phones show that Linux on a smartphone works in principle. There just seems to be a gap between them and mainline Linux. Probably Google bribing chip manufacturers to keep competition down. Can’t think of much else.