• Quazatron@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I seem to have a tendency, a skill, a knack to choose and buy that specific hardware model that is not supported by these cool open source projects.

    Same thing happened with PostmarketOS, I have a box full of old phones that are specifically not supported.

    It’s a really shitty superpower.

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      2 hours ago

      Looking at the list of supported watches, there are only 2 with 5 star support and they seem quite old / obscure. I couldn’t find any to buy second hand anyway.

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      Nah, it is pretty much if you didn’t buy one of 2 trendy models of the year, then nothing else has ever or will ever be supported (of course you can always write your own drivers but it is a ton of work, especially for non-coders)

      I have a thought that a lot of the enthusiasts that go through the pain and effoet of writing all of these drivers for old phones they have were usually the kind of people to buy the best/most popular device of the year