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Use them as such, why would you give your screen Internet? Attach a Mediacenter of your choice, e.g. Kodi.

Update firmware over USB.

There are big differences, Heroic present the gog library in a nice way and supports convenience features like cloud saves (must have with big screen at home and remote gaming on Laptop) as well as gametime tracking, some achievements (dont care about those).

Its far more convenient than Lutris for GoG and of course you can easily backup your Games.

Sehr wenige. Die Technologie hatte von Anfang an ja ihre enge Zielsetzung und die Politik/Hypeunternehmen haben dann das Hypewort überall hingeworfen und geschaut wo es hängen bleibt.

Wo heute tatsächlich noch Blockchain eingesetzt wird ist in der Verifizierung von Dokumenten und Daten, vor allem wenn es sehr verteilte und verschiedene Systeme sind. Beispielsweise nutzen BMW, IBM und Walmarkt die Technologie zur Lieferketten Nachverfolgung. Wichtig ist hier halt, das niemand nachträglich Daten manipulieren kann und, dass man schnell alle Daten durchsuchen kann.

Ebenso werden manche Zertifikate (Also die "Ich habe den Abschluss erworben" Art, nicht die "Diese Website ist sicher") hinterlegt. Natürlich nie das ganze Zertifikat, sondern ein Hash dessen, der später Verifizierung erlaubt. Da gibt es aber auch Konkurrenztechnologien und welches der vielen Pilotprojekte hier zur Reife kam, da hab ich keinen Überblick.

Sonst kenne ich kein Beispiel und natürlich unzählige gescheiterte Projekte.

For Luanti I want to especially recommend the Game "Glitch" which is not minecraft like at all, but surprisingly great.

I currently use Leste on my N900 where it barely works. The hardware is very ancient by moderns standards and the basic kernel+services+X11 already swallows most of the 256MB ram.

The Droid 4 has 4 times as much CPU power and 4 times as much RAM and a slightly faster µSD interface. The system should be blazing fast on there. I just freed mine from old data and will try Leste in the next days. Will report back to you :)

Of course you will likely need a modern mobile phone as hotspot because 3G is shut down in most countries and 2G speeds are something else.

I think you can also expect a blog post from the Leste folks in the next week or so about their progress in the last year. E.g. the migration to Devuan Excalibur (~Debian Trixie). I am constantly astonished what the small group manages to do, as I am with @TheMightyCat and his progress on the Fairphone.

Thank you, I know, although I haven't tried it yet.

Maemo leste offers several advantages over postmarket OS on the device as of now: (According to the postmaket OS wiki) Hardware works out of the box: Calls work, there is a dial UI. The UI is quite polished and was designed with the N900 in mind, middle and right click are only needed, when you install other Linux applications. You have interfaces to control the clock, for sending and receiving SMS, for GPRS, display brightness and a range of old maemo Apps compiled for leste.

Postmarket OS is a great all around effort, but Leste continues the legacy of the old Maemo OS and is very well suited for keyboard phones.

This is incredible work! Thank you so much for your contribution to open source!

When you are finished with your work, may I point you to Maemo Leste? They are working on bringing mainline Linux to old keyboard phones (and others) e.g. the Nokia N900 and the Motorola Droid 4. They have gotten quite far for the small team they are and upstreamed many patches, but are struggling with some remaining hardware components in the phones.

For the N900 - Bluetooth and the camera as well as the lowest power state do not work. Several parts can be improved. For the Droid 4 - GPS, Cameras and there is still a close source 3D acceleration in use.

If you have time to share even a bit of your experience and skills I am sure the people there would greatly appreciate it. You can contact them via the Mailing List or better via IRC #maemo-leste @ libera.chat.

Of course this is not as prestigious and does not help as many people as your efforts with the Fairphone so I fully understand and am happy that you placed your efforts there. But to some people unlocking the last few steps to support these old phones fully would mean the world, because nothing modern is comparable to the hardware (size and HW-Keyboard wise). Also of course because of nostalgia of course, as the N900 was the first fully usable Linux based phone.

I would be happy to send a donation your way for any major contribution. Just ping me here in case I miss it.

Additionally the summary far to often contains major spoilers.

I also read the first few pages and a random place in the middle which is not achapter ending, works very well.

Books here are in Germany also open and in perfect condition. In Italy, where I sometimes browse stores, its the same.

Yes tthats pretty much the closest you can get to fully open source today. I have a number of devices I use: A Pixel 5 with Graphene because the modern world relies to much on Android Apps, also used as hotspot, a Nokia N9 for reading and light browsing, occasional navigation a Nokia N900 with Maemo Leste for secure administrative work.

We also have Sailfish devices in the house

In that case hardware wise you are out of options. With the Librem 5 you get the closest. There you only have the CPU Microcode, Wifi and Bluetooth firmware, and the cellular modem & GNSS firmware.

Software wise you have quite a few options, albeit few are usable as daily drivers.

• Android drops out because it requires hardware with proprietary HAL. You would have to rewrite huge parts of the OS so that it runs without them.
• Postmarket OS is your best bet for a somewhat usable experience
• Many open source systems run, but calls are difficult to setup and partly unreliable.
• Pure OS should fit your goal best, Mobian second.

With a Droid 4 and Maemo Leste you can also get quite close but have no camera.

But you can. Its Linux+GNU with a partially open, partially closed source UI. So you can run tracing utilities and other tools even wireshark!) to check that it values your privacy. That statement that it is a fully closed OS from the OP is wrong.

So does Graphene.

Both ship: Firmware, the HAL components (which are way more critical in my eyes as they have low level hardware access and could hide anything from the OS) Example for these are: The Camera Stack, the Audio Stack, under Graphene the Widevine DRM components.

Sailfish can run without these, e.g. on the Pinephone. Graphene OS can't Graphene additionally comes with an eSIM binary, which is disabled by default Sailfish comes with proprietary UI components, a choice the company made because of their limited manpower as it allowed them to provide features where currently no open source solution exists or existed at the time of implementation) examples are swipe gestures for the keyboard, MS Exchange support, Android App support. That not great, but far from a closed source system where everything is closed source. There exist many patches for UI components because they are partly open source.

The OS ist still Linux, that is true. It is even LInux+GNU which Android is not. It is Linux with closed source components, thats true too.