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Re:Thoughts on Daylight Computer by abdullahkhalids on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:38AM (#43098935)
About 9 months ago, they promised that they will unlock the bootloader so one can install and run linux on it [1]. Hoping this happens soon.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40459958

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Re:Thoughts on Daylight Computer by 3r7j6qzi9jvnve on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @01:51AM (#43099330)
Unlocking the bootloader by itself is allowed apparently: https://www.daylighthacker.wiki/unlock

The problem is that in order to run linux you'll probably want a kernel with quite a few patches and their DTS, and I haven't found anything for this yet. Android is almost linux so with a bit of effort it's probably not unreachable, but I don't quite have the time for this yet... If someone does it then Linux with an external keyboard would probably work for me as well, there was someone who did it with the remarkable (it's already linux but they ran standard X11 on it), but the refresh rate was a bit too sluggish, something like the daylight computer would probably do nicely!

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Re:Thoughts on Daylight Computer by plagiarist on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:54AM (#43099038)
I would buy one if this comes to fruition.
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Re:Thoughts on Daylight Computer by tebuevd on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @01:52AM (#43099336)
not an expert, but i think that’s already available?

https://www.daylighthacker.wiki/unlock

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Re:Thoughts on Daylight Computer by plagiarist on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @04:17PM (#43107806)
Oh, interesting! I'll have to check into what the state of Linux on these are.
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