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by idle_zealot 1477 days ago
> for whatever reason these projects always tend to get built around old devices rather than more recent models

It’s because the new devices haven’t been cracked open enough to work on yet. Tough to port Linux to a device with a locked bootloader. On the Android phone side even if the bootloader is unlocked it takes a lot of time and effort to write or port drivers.