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  • What is that bit about Bedrijfsaansprakelijkheids­verzekering at the end? I've never heard of business liability insurance before. Does Germany not have an equivalent of an LLC?
    by SkinTaco
  • That‘s Dutch, and the same sentence mentions Netherlands. Equivalent of LLC exists everywhere, but business insurance still makes sense if you want to stay in business after paying damages.
    by ivan_gammel
  • He didn't create an LLC he's a 'stichting' which is basically a non profit with a specific goal to achieve.

    He doesn't want to create an LLC because he doesn't want anyone to question his motives.

    Also this is the Netherlands not Germany :)

    by hvb2
  • PostmarketOS can't partner with any OEM/ODM and volunteers have to use hacks to unofficially implement basic Android 1.0 functionality years after a device was released? That's sad to see. This is just lame, drivers should be implemented by those who work on them..

    We had Librem 5 which had real OS support that didn't have to rely on third-party volunteers, I wish they released something more modern..

    by zb3
  • > PostmarketOS can't partner with any OEM/ODM

    Where did you get this idea from?

    by ZenoArrow
  • > PostmarketOS can't partner with any OEM/ODM

    Is there any precedent to believe that such a thing is in fact possible?

    > and volunteers have to use hacks

    I have terrible news for you about how the official firmware works.

    > to unofficially implement basic Android 1.0 functionality years after a device was released?

    Conversely, in other places it's far better than Android 1.0. But yes, if you can only start developing against the device after it's released, then your software will be released after the hardware ships plus development time.

    > That's sad to see. This is just lame, drivers should be implemented by those who work on them..

    My general understanding of the Android ecosystem is that they do write drivers, and you don't want those drivers. I like to imagine that somewhere that out there somebody must be making phones with high quality software, but I've never heard of them.

    by yjftsjthsd-h
  • Great job.

    My advice would be to not take the frustrating and useless road of a non-profit structure for some things that you do for pleasure.

    The for-profit will be simpler and give you more liberties, and if, in the end, you have the good mindset that you want your creations to be shared freely, you can do it anyway. It is a state of mind.

    by greatgib
  • Terrible advice
    by cure_42
  • wow amazing
    by asd000hh
  • Awesome
    by mistercheph
  • I see AF algo has some trouble with defocussing a perfectly sharp scene for no reason. :)

    Does this HW have access to PDAF pixel data?

    by megous
  • The part about getting authorized to test the emergency calling capabilities is cool! I should've expected that would be a thing but I didn't ever consider it.
    by varun_ch
  • Found the pixel modem engineer.
    by NewJazz
  • Awesome! There are so many cool things we could be doing with our phones if they weren't locked to a single OS
    by iamkonstantin
  • Genuinely curious, like what cool things?
    by squigz
  • This is awesome stuff. Fully mainstream Linux with a normal userland running on a modern handset with all features will unlock a tremendous amount of change once it's there.

    Things like running a distributed database for a community on top of the devices they own, hopefully also running true mesh networking.

    by ianso
  • It's already unlocked on other more open phones. Why do you think this time it will be different?
    by megous