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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by thaumasiotes on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:41PM (#21806379)
> The flagship models like Pixel usually have the best ongoing support.

When was the last time you checked on this? As far as I can see, LineageOS support is pretty much restricted to phones that have had it for years. There is no hope if you have a recent phone. There's also no hope if you have an old phone, unless it's already supported.

For example, the most recent Pixel with support is... the Pixel. The original.

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by vorpalhex on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:18PM (#21806735)
Lineage depends on the community to issue device specific builds. For instance, my dual sim traveling phone has no official Lineage support, but is well supported through the community (and indeed, everything works quite well).

I do wish Lineage had a way to promote and adopt community versions more officially.

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by thaumasiotes on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:25PM (#21806814)
> I do wish Lineage had a way to promote and adopt community versions more officially.

They do. That's what official support is. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

But they're a dead project.

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by yorwba on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:41PM (#21806985)
Last change 4 minutes ago: https://review.lineageos.org/q/status:open

Looks quite alive to me.

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by thaumasiotes on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:31PM (#21807444)
An active project that supports no hardware is still a dead project. If you want to run LineageOS, that's not a realistic goal. It's a pipe dream.
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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by yorwba on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:43PM (#21807584)
I run LineageOS on my phone. I specifically bought the phone to run LineageOS on it. It's only a pipe dream if you want to take any random phone and change the operating system.
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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by zozbot234 on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:28PM (#21806849)
Can't have "official" support unless everything is working. "Promoting" beta-level code would be a disaster.
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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by thaumasiotes on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:52PM (#21807670)
The release model that LineageOS inherited from CyanogenMod included three branches of varying levels of stability. The philosophy that if it isn't already finished, there's no point starting is the problem with LineageOS today.
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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by zozbot234 on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:26PM (#21806826)
> There is no hope if you have a recent phone.

OnePlus 6, 6T, 7 Pro - these are not "old" devices. Granted, you might argue that OnePlus doesn't count, lol.

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by Enginerrrd on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:06PM (#21806629)
This has been my experience, and I feel like I've been lookding pretty hard. I'd really like to see this problem get solved.
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