Pixels are well-supported in general. It helps that they're essentially Google's reference devices.
As for flashing over USB, any device can do that thanks to WebUSB. All a website needs to know are the device identifiers for ADB mode, recovery mode, and fastboot mode.
I'd say building an image capable of booting on the phone is much harder than altering the GrapheneOS installer to actually flash that image. The process is extremely similar for most devices.
Every time I see any of those MNT machines in pictures, it makes my fingers start frantically typing out lengthy rants whether it's about internals or externals or even choices of colors.
Except for that price. Yikes. Heck of a barrier to entry for an unproven product. I do wish them well, but as we call for more modularity in laptop design, we can't forget the core value of keeping it affordable for the masses.
Which is why we're sadly only really going to get it if a major manufacturer decides to go Framework on us, because otherwise the economies of scale just aren't there.
Or laptops get so uncommon that manufacturers have to band together and agree on standards.
The tooling has become somewhat mature, and the community is growing so there are more experts to help out when you are stuck. For example, this project relied heavily on the tooling developed to decompile the Pokemon GBA games.
> Europe should be making industry-leading apps. Europe should produce software startups that make products that get used worldwide.
I've kind of lost hope when it comes to commercial services and proprietary apps. They're sadly all sooner or later enshittified. We need something different, not by promises but by design (FOSS).
> EU subsidized clones of popular American products feels like admitting defeat.
I think it's a fresh and needed take on the financing of our common digital infra.
Typically a FOSS community seems to take a while to get started, but once it gets going (Blender, Linux, etc) it tends to stick around and even seriously gain traction.
Selfish and entitled behavior like that makes my blood boil.
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