Mobian
Mobian started as a hobby project, triggered by the excitement of finally being able to hack one’s mobile phone at will. It is fair to say that the device that made it possible back then was the original PinePhone. However, after running once again into the same difficulties we experienced over and over, we’re wondering whether maintaining support for this device is still worth the effort…
https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30/paperweight-dilemma/
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Sad to read that, but if the situation is like that, I see not many alternatives unfortunately. Such a shame that @PINE64 ended the CE program and sticked to #manjaro !
@mobian I know this is about the original PinePhone, but to the casual reader it might appear that Mobian and the PinePhone ecosystem as a whole are left with an unmaintained kernel. Appendix II seems very hopeful that the community has learned from these mistakes moving forward. A title change such as "The Paperweight Problem and the Original PinePhone" might help convey this.
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megi’s recent decision of shutting down their GitHub account and blocking pulls from their self-hosted git repos has made our work more difficult; we’re also becoming more and more tired of “losing” our time in those endless kernel upgrades for this particular device.