November 6, 2026
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Over the past few days I brought up Mainline Linux 7.1.0-rc1 (linux-postmarketos-qcom-sdm845) and postmarketOS edge on a Xiaomi Mi 8 (dipper) (Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, 6 GB LPDDR4X RAM, 128 GB UFS 2.1...
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November 4, 2026
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When I first published Mergen, the goal was modest: prove that a C++20 / GGML runtime could split a GGUF language model into consecutive transformer layer shards, ship those shards to reclaimed phones...
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October 31, 2026
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When recovering discarded phone motherboards for my Phone Revival Lab, two of my clean octacore boards were Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime (SM-G610F / on7xelte) mainboards equipped with the Exynos 7870 (8× C...
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October 31, 2026
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One of the boards in my Phone Revival Lab is an LG G4 Stylus (LG-H540) built around the octa-core MediaTek MT6592M (8× Cortex-A7 @ 1.4 GHz). When I first powered it on, the screen flashed the LG logo ...
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October 31, 2026
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When I brought up Mainline Linux 7.2 and Alpine Linux 3.20 on the Exper Easypad 8 (Model T8E) tablet (Allwinner A31s / sun6i), nearly every major subsystem worked through upstream drivers: sun4i-drm d...
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