Very happy to see PostmarketOS take an uncompromising stance and also providing justification for it.
I remember when people were crying about how much power a google search uses. This is the same thing all over again and it is as pointless now as it was back then.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-says-it-dropped-th...
> Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year. The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV.
That's like calling a person going for seconds a conservative (in the USA political sense).
They do go on to address code quality but it is more of an after thought with 0 references, less words and appears lower down the page.
The timing is also suspicious, shortly after publication of this report: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/smartphone-ma... which forecasts declining smartphone sales meaning less devices for this OS to run on.
Why would declining sales of new smartphones have anything to do with PostMarketOS, which only supports phones more than half a decade old?
What I struggle to believe - what I don't believe - is that there any sort of connection between the report about likely declining sales and PMOS' announcement.
> These are the most supported devices, maintained by at least 2 people and have the functions you expect from the device running its normal OS, such as calling on a phone, working audio, and a functional UI.
> Besides QEMU devices, this is currently empty. The ports we had here earlier weren't as reliable as we would have liked. We plan to add new devices here with a higher standard.
The most recent smartphone in the Community section of that page is the Fairphone 4, released half a decade ago, in 2021. Pixel devices can trivially be bootloader unlocked, but that doesn't make the work that goes into supporting them much easier: the latest device in Testing is the 6a/6 Pro, from 2022, and its device page lists all the features but the most basic (touchscreen, flash, internal storage) as "Untested".
Some people enjoy the outcome, others enjoy the process.
I find the criticism interesting. It's like one restaurant saying they'll use only electric stoves for the climate, then chefs all over the world calling them stupid naive for it.
It's like ethical arguments rationalizing local behavior are automatically interpreted as a global attack that has to be rejected.