#postmarketOS is gonna be so awesome once you can actually factory reset your device. not for that logic alone but because of what it implies about the underlying system design

i've done this rant before but just consider how much more solid your system will be when all your changes are explicitly handled on top of the base system with robust mechanisms for testing system changes, being able to revert them back (at the bootloader level).

if we do this right, it should mean that once you install postmarketos on your Android device you should never have to interact with fastboot again, you'll always have a working system to jump back to with A/B updates (unless you really mess up).

The user benefits are awesome too (see Lennarts thread), but as a distro that encourages tinkerers im way more interested in all the ways we can make development easier whether you're working on the kernel, initramfs, middleware or UI and THIS is how we do it

From: @pid_eins
https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/114635234216495259

@cas @pid_eins

So, what you're saying, is that I'll be able to factory reset my phone, right ? OP6 for instance ? The one that has basic problems with call audio ? And is marketed as "the one that is almost mainlined" ?

Does it mean that @systemd will also be able to erase my phone ?

@as400 @pid_eins not sure i get your point, but yeah that's the idea

are you suggesting we should continue working on these burnout-triggering low level issues and ignore anything else despite having a sizeable user community?

all work on postmarketos is done out of individual motivation, individual device ports or mobile interfaces, individual motivation to improve rhe tooling or initramfs. There is no hierarchy handing out tasks or telling others what to do

and yes, systemd will be able to erase your phone :)

@cas @as400 @pid_eins oh no my init system, the most privileged thing on my phone, will be able to erase my phone :shocked_face:

@fun @pid_eins @cas

Fantastic. Don't forget to report to microsoft.

@as400 @fun @pid_eins @cas Not sure I understand, what is the problem exactly? (with systemd handling this, not reporting to Microsoft which we obviously will not do)