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Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations (link to 2025 Priorities -> Focus on Reliabilty, Audi, Camera, etc) (postmarketos.org)
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A notable mention is https://ubports.com/en/ which is different from postmarketos in a sense that ubports uses old kernels with heavy patches. That means: good support for things, but difficult future.

PostmarketOS uses the newest kernels and tries to integrate their patches into mainline kernel, so that the reliability is maintained with all kernel developers.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Phone functionality is the least of my problems, I need an open source replacement for Android Auto / Apple CarPlay.

Not sure how that would work, you'd either have to emulate it to talk to the infotainment system, or get all the infotainment producers to add an open source layer... Sounds like a nightmare either way.

[–] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

That was the purpose of MirrorLink, but I think it's dead now. I only ever saw Volkswagen support it.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

We had the AUX jack but they axed it to sell earbuds.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I have heard that Apple removed the headphone jack to kill compatibility with those Square credit card readers.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 20 hours ago

And yet here I am supporting people who use square credit card readers with Ipads as one of my job responsibilities..... They just switched to bluetooth