Yet another Hacker News

70 points timschumi 3 hours ago 11 comments

deng 53 minutes ago | parent

I was secretly hoping they'd stop supporting the Pixel 4a so I would have a reason to get a new phone, but no, still there in the list of supported devices. So I guess I'll just keep using that thing another year... Anyway: big thanks to the Lineage maintainers, keeping so many phones from landfill!

shayan01 49 minutes ago | parent

I wish I could still use my Pixel 4a but the battery is pretty much dead and it's too much money to replace it

Klaster_1 46 minutes ago | parent

I replaced battery in mine for like 90 EUR and several months in dropped it and broke the screen. Would still use it instead of 9a, love how light and compact the phone was. At least now I have a spare phone to root and do stuff with that I couldn't on my main one.

riedel 34 minutes ago | parent

Prices here are 13EUR including tools from what I can see.

The only reason I have been switching phones is banking apps: so much for Europe's right to repair..

deng 30 minutes ago | parent

I have yet to find a banking app that refuses to work on LineageOS. The only problem is if you root your phone, in which case you'll have to use Magisk to hide root from those apps, which also works fine so far.

platinum95 8 minutes ago | parent

Revolut is notrious in this regard. If memory serves, they explicitly check the build string for LineageOS and block the app if it matches. The workaround at the time was to build the ROM yourself with a new build name string.

shayan01 28 minutes ago | parent

Too lazy to do it myself tbh

toredash 27 minutes ago | parent

Where can one get one for that price range?

khkjlhgkl 30 minutes ago | parent

I love LineageOS. I have been using Lineage and previously Cyanogen for many years. This is how Android is meant to be.

villgax 24 minutes ago | parent

Absolutely love this project for keeping my OnePlus 6T alive.

Such sad state of affairs for Android. They dropped the ball on making any working edge deep learning inference framework. iOS is way better at this of all things. For being an OSS platform the amount of rigidity in not letting users customize to the fullest without rooting is just tragic.

haunter 10 minutes ago | parent

>Recently, Contributor 0xCAFEBABE introduced a very different kind of generic target that can be run on various types of bare-metal hardware devices.

>While it’s still in experimental state, it has successfully booted on:

>Common x86_64 PCs

>Apple Silicon Macs

>NVIDIA DGX Spark

>Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series Laptops

That actually sounds awesome! Refurbishing old laptops with Android would be a nice choice alongside with Desktop Linux.