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Cake day: August 30th, 2023

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  • Only if the phone hardware is closed and locked. If not for chip manufacturer patents, stock Debian would run no problem on every new phone a week or two after it hit the shelves (if not sooner, like when friendly vendors send early hardware out to developers).
    Instead, every revision of every model phone has a bunch of unique black-box bullshit that must be reverse-engineered, all of which expressly exists to keep you from using your hardware the way you want.

    You know all of this.
    The point (that you made, that) I want to emphasize is: Valve is a hardware manufacturer now.
    And I would absolutely buy an AARCH64 Steam Deck that could replace my Android.