A small project to help out anyone trying to keep their old devices functional.

I wrote a script to scrape pages of some popular alternative OS projects (such as postmarketOS and LineageOS), and put them into a single list. I’ll try to automate and keep this up-to-date. Any additional OS suggestions and comments are welcome!

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The issue isn’t really the OS in many cases.

    The barrier is getting a battery replacement. Which many devices make exceptionally difficult, to the point where buying a new cheap phone is nearly equivalent in price as paying someone to tear down your phone and rebuild it to swap the battery

    • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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      5 months ago

      My previous phone was chosen specifically because it had an easily replaceable battery. However by the time I needed to replace it the manufacturer (Samsung) had stopped making those batteries and the only ones available were fake ones on Amazon that didn’t hold a charge. Meh.

      • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        A strategy you could employ is to buy the battery early.

        Keep it at about 30-50% change, and refrigerated. You’re talking < 2-3% capacity loss per year, probably much lower since the temperature is so low.

        Meaning the battery is effectively new when you go to swap it.