Post A0s21W4ozlN6dtiLpY by bkhan@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #A0s0rCVMoAI75jeEfg by Moon@shitposter.club
2020-11-04T23:46:47.626425Z
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that Nexus 7 tablet has borderline turned me into an anti e-waste evangelist. It's a perfectly fine tablet it just doesn't get any fucking updates so it can't run anything anymore./
(DIR) Post #A0s0tN3MYp6aNyaHGS by Moon@shitposter.club
2020-11-04T23:47:10.847410Z
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Now I'm supposed to just throw it in the trash, it's a god damn waste and tragedy.
(DIR) Post #A0s0x5lykbSJwxE9js by orekix@anime.website
2020-11-04T23:47:49.908755Z
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@Moon no lineageos for it?
(DIR) Post #A0s1350KWMNRItnM7E by kaikatsu@pleroma.site
2020-11-04T23:48:56.503465Z
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@Moon My tablets tend to get used up as smart home control panels or mounted to my 3D printers as UI
(DIR) Post #A0s14Enja95BygSJTk by gaige@neue.city
2020-11-04T23:49:08.154755Z
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@Moon set it up as an airgapped digital image frame or something showing off images you find either aesthetic or meaningful?
(DIR) Post #A0s1Cz1dbaFdel84Om by Moon@shitposter.club
2020-11-04T23:50:43.859858Z
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@orekix > WARNING: The Google Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi, 2013 version) is no longer maintained.
(DIR) Post #A0s1O5nGmV9LpihpA0 by normandy@biribiri.dev
2020-11-04T23:52:44.410054Z
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@Moon @orekix have you tired looking for other roms for it?
(DIR) Post #A0s1Q2pwkIBfF3tAdE by pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
2020-11-04T23:53:04.687139Z
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@Moon i bought the first nexus 7 they made, it was quite nice, but i spent all the time with laptop anyway, so i gave it to a bf and it became basically unusable with the next few android upgrades it got
(DIR) Post #A0s1S1rdKjcYnuckq0 by Moon@shitposter.club
2020-11-04T23:53:26.854004Z
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@normandy @orekix postmarketos has an update to 2019 but reports indicate almost nothing works right.
(DIR) Post #A0s1T5sHuLMPX3RD1M by kaikatsu@pleroma.site
2020-11-04T23:53:38.134346Z
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@Moon @orekix Even postmarketOS isn't a good bet because they're dropping support for whichever arm architecture was used around 2012-2013. I would say very stripped ROM and mount it in your kitchen and use it as a grocery list or Netflix device. Been debating that fate for one of my tablets.
(DIR) Post #A0s1TSdtG2Vg93sXGy by normandy@biribiri.dev
2020-11-04T23:53:42.561080Z
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@Moon @orekix :puff_sad:
(DIR) Post #A0s1V5U8KLiYu35faS by Moon@shitposter.club
2020-11-04T23:54:00.082080Z
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@pony the 2012 nexus was a bit underpowered.
(DIR) Post #A0s1cDNLOAupOzJUMy by pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
2020-11-04T23:55:16.791466Z
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@Moon yes but it was still silly to see a device that was ok on the release to be made really really crappy
(DIR) Post #A0s1glbc41tAiu9rlI by bkhan@fosstodon.org
2020-11-04T23:55:08Z
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@Moon The Nexus 7 used to be the gold standard for open tablets. Every weird project and OS would target it before any other tablet. See if you can get LineageOS, Ubuntu Touch or PostmarketOS running on it.
(DIR) Post #A0s1gltgyoLncycIwS by Moon@shitposter.club
2020-11-04T23:56:05.094074Z
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@bkhan ubuntu touch 16.04 runs on it but I've found it to be unreliable. You're supposed to be able to run "legacy desktop" software on it using containers, but it just plain doesn't work.
(DIR) Post #A0s21W4ozlN6dtiLpY by bkhan@fosstodon.org
2020-11-04T23:58:46Z
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@Moon Ubuntu Touch was made for mobile more than productivity. The closest thing to mainline Linux on tablets would be PostmarketOS. It's based off Alpine and targets Gingerbread-era phones, so a Nexus 7 should work.
(DIR) Post #A0s21YVTxbt0BACffE by Moon@shitposter.club
2020-11-04T23:59:51.133147Z
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@bkhan broken on postmarketos. it's just time to give up and move on :-(
(DIR) Post #A0s5LlbZGsNSSMNYeW by wowaname@anime.website
2020-11-05T00:37:07.248263Z
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@Moon i wish i hadnt shattered my galaxy s5's screen but i was so pissed at it at the time...
(DIR) Post #A0s7FBCntGDVjimZlo by nsoddity@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-11-05T00:57:53Z
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@MoonI've got an old kindle hd 7 that I feel the same way about. I could replace the battery, but Amazon crippled it with a shitty oddball bootloader.
(DIR) Post #A0sG8URWrmkQxdYTjc by okabe_rintarou@shitposter.club
2020-11-05T02:37:59.789413Z
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@Moon I have a Nexus 7 from 2012, which was absolutely ruined by Google updating it to Android 5. It became absolutely unusable and I never thought they would pull something like that.Anyways, the 2013 model might fare better in that regard, and even if not, there are surely CFW's for it.I'd just ist it as a Manga reading device with Perfect Reader. I'm sure it supports even older Android versions, but even if it doesn't, it should work for the next 10-15 years normally.
(DIR) Post #A0sIAL9Eb1WIcW0Y2y by ilja@ilja.space
2020-11-05T03:00:43.463213Z
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@Moon @bkhan yeah, the libertine containers don't seem supported very well. I tried it recently on FP2 and had the same problem.