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@debacle @lupyuen Yeah, that's the problem I've been seeing with it too. If they're just using Halium, it's not really a Mobile Linux device, it's just an Android device that they installed a distro through using Android HAL compatibility tools and the Android kernel. There's nothing particularly special about that, you can do it on pretty much any modern Android device iirc, but the only difference here is that they pre-install it, which still isn't much.

@debacle @lupyuen

Is there somewhere an analysis of the FLX1 #Furiphone through the lens of software(/hardware) freedom?

- how is it booted? (through some android multi-partition mumbo jumbo, or simple "i own the bootsector" thing?)
- how are the components accessed? what sort of drivers/firmware/blobs?
- how about the baseband SoC? How does it interface to the user SoC? What stack, etc?
- what perspectives of improvement on all these topics?

FuriPhone FLX1 phone: "considerably better-specified than the PinePhone Pro or Purism Librem 5, and it's cheaper too"

theregister.com/2025/02/03/fur

SD Wire: "flash SD card connected to the DUT (Device Under Test), without physical contact with the device"

tindie.com/products/3mdeb/sd-w

Apache RTOS: Test Bot for Pull Requests, Tested on Real Hardware ( SG2000 SBC)

youtu.be/qiBhC5VTkIo

Folks on macOS: There's a simpler way to compile Any Target (almost) ... Just run the macOS Scripts for Continuous Integration! Here's how

Source: lupyuen.org/articles/ci5.html

@lupyuen As someone who uses Go frequently, this doesn't really make sense to me.

This has been done before with Rust and Yew, but WASM isn't really meant for that use case. It makes far more sense to use WASM for the non-UI logical operations, and JavaScript for the visible UI parts.

@lupyuen For example, Element (like many other web-based Matrix clients) is primarily written in JavaScript & TypeScript, but the complex cryptographic logic performed in the background is handled via a Rust-based WASM file.

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