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Linux boots on the iPhone 11, and we believe we’re the first in the world to do it.
www.patreon.com/partshacker/posts/linux-boots-on-172091834Every line in the boot path is code we wrote. There is zero Apple code between power-on and Linux. The bootloader is ours, top to bottom. To our knowledge, no one has done this on an A13 device before.
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Replying to @glowie@infosec.pub
Excellent. I want a not Android and not iOS.
Replying to @heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
Can I interest you in a Windows phone?
Replying to @frongt@lemmy.zip
Was actually good
Replying to @UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world
I had one and you are incorrect
Replying to @Aneb@lemmy.world
The hardware was good for the time, and the UI/UX was a solid concept. However, it came way late to the party.
Replying to @TheWilliamist@lemmy.world
and the UI/UX was a solid concept
I couldn’t hate anything more than I hated the Windows phone UI. It constantly felt like everything was constantly cut off, or like I was looking at my phone through a keyhole.
Replying to @CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
Then on the other end windows 8 it felt like there was too much empty space, bad on small and large displays.
Replying to @Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
This 10,000 times. I thought the phone UI was novel and useful at the time but that never translated to the desktop or even a touch screen.