Caleb Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/16/2019 03:23 AM, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: >> Caleb Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Most people cannot access or afford decent Replicant devices. >> >> No people can access or afford _decent_ Replicant devices: they are simply >> nonexistent. > > I consider the ancient Galaxy S2 decent.
A device without GPS and hardware graphic acceleration (unless you are willing to run nonfree software on CPU)? Or even without Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (unless you are willing to run nonfree firmware)? That’s not saying about its obsolescence, which involves not only quantitative downsides but qualitative too: such as absence of LTE modem. >> A device, listed at https://replicant.us (which would _not_ fully work under >> it anyway), could be obtained very easily and for a laughable price, though. > > The price is expensive. Scarcity of after-market devices still in good > condition, combined with the price of paying someone to flash it Replicant is not Libreboot, it does not require any flashing. It is installed just like as any other Android-based OS. > costs five hundred dollars last time I checked. Wow! That’s for sure a local issue. I’ve just checked, in Moscow you could get a _new_ Galaxy S2 for 85 $ (which I still found unacceptably expensive for a 2011 Android phone, but if someone really needs it new), used — from 25 $. So if you’d really like to recommend someone to buy Galaxy S2, I suggest you just submit to necessity to recommend him to run some more nonfree software in his browser, and order it somewhere else: at Ali a ‘refurbished’ device with shipping included would be about 40 $ [1]. [1] https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-samsuns-galaxy-s2.html
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