[HN Gopher] Sustaphones Tablets - Database of repairable Android...
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Sustaphones Tablets - Database of repairable Android devices with
community ROMs
Author : nfriedly
Score : 35 points
Date : 2024-10-02 12:24 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sustaphones.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sustaphones.com)
| nfriedly wrote:
| Sustaphones was previously discussed on HN -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25592066 - but the tablets
| page is new.
| 22c wrote:
| Love this idea. Seems like a gap of Tablet devices for 2021/2022
| though?
|
| Also open source:
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| https://gitlab.com/onli/sustaphones
| nfriedly wrote:
| Yeah, in the issue, onli lamented that there just aren't that
| many tablets with battery replacement guides on ifixit, which
| is one of the requirements for it to appear on the site (and
| just not as many tablets in general):
| https://gitlab.com/onli/sustaphones/-/issues/16
| 22c wrote:
| Ah I suppose that makes a little sense, but perhaps it would
| be better if they were listed as long as they had some ROM
| support.
|
| The reason those guides don't exist is probably not because
| battery replacement is an insurmountable task, but that
| simply nobody has written the iFixit guide for the device yet
| (which also accepts contributions). It's a bit of a
| chicken/egg problem, but if saving e-waste is the goal then
| people should be willing to give more tablets a go, even if
| they are lacking in iFixit guides.
| SuperNinKenDo wrote:
| Nice! When I bought my current phone I assumed a LineageOS would
| be out on it within the year, but little did I know how bad
| things had become. Will never by another device without doing
| oodles of research from now on.
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