How hard would it be to design a small raspberry pi computer with a touchscreen running Linux, that has a camera, bluetooth, and can connect to cell service? Surely it can't be that difficult, unless I'm missing something.
Several schematics/plans for DIY exist, but they're not really reliable enough for daily use especially on CDMA networks.
>>106409343no volte no buy
>>106409343>raspberry pigaythis was tried already btwit's a trash noveltyIf it weren't incredibly sketchy to mail people shit on 4chan I'd literally send you mine for freehttps://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
>>106409403>A Security and Privacy Focused Phone>The Librem 5 represents the opportunity for you to take back control and protect your private information, your digital life through free and open source software, open governance, and transparency.nice CIA backdoored phone
>>106409343If you want it to not be ass these are the requirements:>x86Yeah, I know Arm is preferred for mobile but it's utter dog shit for an open source ecosystem that actually has to be useful and support modern features. Using it in the project means certain failure unless you have a team of firmware and software engineers.>5G modem over internal USB busModems are insanely sus due to their government enforced black-box nature. It's likely illegal to modify the firmware due to how brittle the cell network is. They have to be isolated from any bus that has DMA.
>>106409412you're thinking of the pinephone, which had shipments redirected by the NSA at some pointThe Librem, while being a total pile of shit, does deliver on all of its promises. Just put a hackrf right next to it?
>>106409343considering you can just straight up run linux on an rpi trivially and get a WWAN card you can pop a SIM into and then get a number through a VoIP service, it should be pretty easy to build but still likely not worth it since if you're that paranoid about glowies on your phone, you're likely to just not use a phone at all
>>106409412>>106409449I don't need it to be completely impenetrable (though that would be very nice, and the more security the better), I just want more freedom with smartphone hardware and software.
>>106409478personally until MS killed skype for good, I just used that and didnt carry a smartphone at all. if i needed a portable computing device for mobile shitposting, I'd just bring a laptop with me (as a bonus, said laptop could even run skype for me to take calls!!)
>>106409510What "that"? The Librem?
>>106409656>What "that"? are you esl or simply an advertising bot?
>>106409675You replied to me saying what I would want in an open-source smartphone, and then (presumably you) said "Personally until MS killed skype for good, I just used that...". How is a video call program related to a portable open source smartphone. Are you saying the smartphone could run on a skype-like program? What about where you only have cell service and not wi-fi?>are you esl or simply an advertising bot?No, I'm autistic
>>106409909>poster who communicates solely through LLMs can't follow a conversation or understand basic sentence structuremany such cases. sad!
>>106409343Dude, come on, it's been tried a million times and it fails every single time.
>>106409343postmarketOS exists. Does it have to be Linux though? AOSP is open source, you could build an open source custom rom for a device like that. Having it run on a Raspberry pi doesn't sound like a good idea though, it's better to pick hardware more suited for the job.
>>106409921Yeah...>>106409962I agree, it doesn't have to be the hardware and software from my post, it was more of an illustrative concept. Basically, I want an open-source smartphone, a portable computer with phone and text capabilities.
>>106410034>a portable computer with phone and text capabilities.I'll explain it again for you in a more retard-friendly way:You can simply buy a very small laptop or similar small computer running a normal OS, and then get a VoIP service.>bbbut what about if no wifi?You can buy a WWAN card that accepts a SIM card, so you can use your mobile data connection from your phone service provider to provide "wifi" to the laptop (or similar small computer)>bbbut then the glowies will listen to me!They're listening to everything you do over 4/5G service anyway, whether it's voice or data. In fact, modern cellphones basically operate as VoIP devices and your "voice" call is encoded as audio data through a proper codec and routed through the internet to get to the recipient.
>>106410060Oh I see. To fully replace a smartphone, you would need to have it be pocket sized, though you can definitely have more leeway than the thin corporate glass slabs. I was thinking maybe a 3D printed shell.
>>106410069>muh 3d printign!!!!please kill your self
>>106409416>how brittle the cell network isIt just reminds me that I don't even want a phone number. I only have one because everyone denies me services over not having one. I have received less than 30 legitimate phone calls in the past 10 years not counting personal contacts. But the mere existence of a 10-digit number that anyone knowing gives them unrestricted access to my anus (voicemail) shouldn't be tolerated in the current year. And the fact that other communication platforms build their ID on top of this system is totally baffling to me.
