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a visit from the past

Like 22 April at 1:15 | Open on mastodon.social

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zachery_delong

@lzg The future we could have had... 😢

22 April at 1:20 | Open on mastodon.social

prom™️

@lzg lol. are the vibes better than Ubuntu mobile? i’m guessing: yes, slightly.

22 April at 1:20 | Open on chaos.social

Dev

@lzg omg, back in the day, when I still loved programming, I had made a wallpaper app for Firefox os

22 April at 1:22 | Open on discuss.systems

morb

@lzg the worst time capsule

22 April at 1:36 | Open on mastodon.social

Joe Cooper 💾

@lzg still a better idea than this new AI thing.

22 April at 1:40 | Open on mas.to

RealGene ☣️

@lzg
I still have my Palm Pre, which ran WebOS, the most enjoyable phone I ever owned.
I think I will have a little trouble finding a 3G carrier these days.

22 April at 1:44 | Open on mastodon.online

@RealGene @lzg Easily the GOAT right there. Thanks Palm for an awesome phone and OS,🖕 to HP for driving it all into the ground.

22 April at 12:37 | Open on tilde.zone

ShadowTux

@lzg Remember wanting one for a brief second back in the day 😄

22 April at 1:46 | Open on infosec.exchange

AndrewFelix 🐀🏴‍☠️ 🇵🇸

@lzg Imagine a timeline where you could download apps direct from a website

22 April at 1:46 | Open on mastodon.social

HowToPhil (Phillip R)

@andrewfelix @lzg Might be possible in modern times with a rooted KaiOS (which I am led to believe is a fork of B2G OS, which is a fork of Firefox OS...)

22 April at 2:07 | Open on mastodon.social

AndrewFelix 🐀🏴‍☠️ 🇵🇸

@howtophil @lzg Yep. But without widespread adoption there aren't going to be many devs going to the trouble of creating a release for a third platform.

22 April at 2:08 | Open on mastodon.social

HowToPhil (Phillip R)

@andrewfelix Oddly, Gen-Z etc are using more and more KaiOS "feature phones" each year

22 April at 2:14 | Open on mastodon.social

AndrewFelix 🐀🏴‍☠️ 🇵🇸

@howtophil 🤲

22 April at 2:15 | Open on mastodon.social

ch0ccyra1n :she_her:

@lzg what even- :whatthecinnamontoastfuckisthis:

22 April at 1:55 | Open on emeraldsocial.org

Senil888 :drgn_uwu:

@lzg RIP a legend, the idea was so so neat ;-;

22 April at 2:12 | Open on synth.senil888.com

scott f

@lzg i have one of those somewhere :(

22 April at 2:21 | Open on carfree.city

Halla Rempt

@lzg Ah, firefox os was pretty good. So was WebOS, Ubuntu's mobile OS, Plasma Mobile (which I worked on) -- and even WeTab wasn't too bad.

And then, years afterwards, Librem brought out Librem 5 and there had been _no progress at all_ since those days. It was a slow, buggy mess running on a heavy, hot brick.

If it were not for the fire risk, the one true purpose of the Librem 5 was to be a used as a feet-warming bed pan in cold winter nights.

22 April at 2:21 | Open on fosstodon.org

Gaffe

@lzg I think mine was a much earlier model and it was awful. IIRC it didn't have enough RAM to upgrade to the latest version of FFOS released before the project shut down. Obsolete the moment I took it out of the box, practically.

I really, really wanted to love it but it was horrible... it was the ZTE Open I think?

22 April at 3:16 | Open on meow.social

Jiub

@Gaffe @lzg yes it was the ZTE Open. i had one too, and it was barely usable due to the slow processor and low ram. i did love the orange color tho

22 April at 17:25 | Open on tech.lgbt

Gaffe

@jiub @lzg Ah, what could have been!

22 April at 17:31 | Open on meow.social

Jiub

@Gaffe @lzg it would be so cool if firefoxos succeeded as a third smartphone option that's open. i mean i guess it's technically still around in the form of kaios but it doesn't seem very common or very open