I have 11 years old phone that still gets updates. For free. And all my computers will have updates for ever. For free.
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fishos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean there’s not still a team of developers working full time to make sure you’re 8 year old hardware is still getting software/security parity? Color me shocked. Shocked I say! They should support your hardware for free forever! How dare they advance in such a way that it’s not possible for my 8 year old hardware to run the exact same as modern hardware that’s been updated and iterated hundreds of times since then.
chevy9294@monero.town 2 months ago
strawberry@kbin.run 2 months ago
what kind of phone is getting updates that long?
kadu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’d be surprised at what the custom ROM communities manage to achieve. The Galaxy S3 (not 23, I really mean S3) can run Android 11 or 12.
0x0@programming.dev 2 months ago
It’s no surprise, if the hardware can take it then why not? It should be the default. Maybe the current EU can tackle all this built-in obsolescence from Big Tech.
The real surprise is people devoting their free time in maintaining those communities, kudos to them. Eventually my current phone will get Lineage.
chevy9294@monero.town 2 months ago
Galaxy S4, officially supported by LineageOS :)
strawberry@kbin.run 2 months ago
oh dope. I'm on graphene run, so I think that gives me 7 years, but 11 is impressive. any idea how long they plan on supporting it? also, is that your daily? I feel like a phone that old would be quite slow by now.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 months ago
Google can choose to not update the operating system but I don’t see why the browser is left behind.
Google supported chrome on windows 7 longer than Microsoft itself, they can’t do it on their own Linux distro?
kadu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Today I’ll update my Chrome version in my 2013 media box desktop running Debian in honour of your terribly written comment!