know more about the fsf librephone?
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The answer to someone who asked about this on the FSF associate member forum was "This will be a long-term project with a slow start. Initially, it will be a technical webpage with information discovered through reverse-engineering."
I wonder if this will mean anything, or if it will just be wifi only.
If the 2nd, I don't know if it will be useful in many situations
I asked the FSF and they said I should wait some more time. Maybe to the FSF40 hackathon?
When pinephone was a thing, I am not sure but I think it was the postmarket os people who said a free software system supporting all devices on the phone except the modem appeared to be a possibility. At the time I had a conversation with an university professor working on 5g software. He said in principle making a free software modem in europe is a possibility. Because lawmakers had framed the laws governing the modem matter such that there was a degree of openness in order to inspire different phone manufactures to compete. So far I have heard of no free software modem.
It now has a FAQ and documentation pages:
https://librephone.fsf.org/FAQ.html
https://librephone.fsf.org/site
And a libera.chat channel: #librephone
Interesting that they are using Android. I wonder if Android is the way to go given all of the proprietary Google stuff that typically comes with it.
I have an old and kind of crappy Android phone myself, I use as many F-Droid apps as possible but that's the best that I can do. No LineageOS or anything like that.
I haven't replaced it because I try to use my electronics for as long as possible out of concern for the environment and forced/child labor in the supply chain.
I also have an old Android tablet that I use almost entirely for reading PDFs (with Librera Reader, which I highly recommend). I got it over a decade ago, specifically because it can run Replicant, but the graphics are too slow, so I use an old version of LineageOS. It can also run PostmarketOS, which I tried once, but it requires a proprietary graphics driver, and even then the graphics are glitchy for unknown reasons.
"While there are many proprietary libraries and other files in Android, this project is focused on binary blobs."

