I am not your light, sweetheart.

I am not raging against anything. I am calling it useless and ridiculous because it is useless and ridiculous.

… And I am not your pal, mate.

Hardware was designed first, and then they applied software.

You don’t need to redesign a hardware. It is software which needs redesigning, within the existing hardware.

Read again.

And I am not your dude, pal.

Read again. Slowly.

I am not. I said it was ridiculous and led to nowhere with software being much better solution. Suddenly multiple people felt offended by this simple statement of fact.

This is cutdown hardware leading to simplified and cutdown software as it’s a necessity here.

I strongly disagree. Spyware, bloatware, forced updates etc are a function of profit driven choice, not the necessity.

Why does the end product of an electronics learning project need to be useful? Or any hobby project?

So we agree it is useless? OK.

I wonder how many fucking morons will try to defend this idiocy. Congratulations, you are on the level of 5y/o and so is the creator of this useless junk.

I wouldn’t consider it reinventing the wheel

I do. What they are trying to create already exists. What is really needed is non intrusive software rather than hardware.

My son put a lego car toghther yesterday. Look, a hobby prototype! 🙄

many people call you useless,

You must be thinking about your parents and yourself.

Someone: makes something completely and utterly useless.

Internet people: voice justified criticism.

Half wits: “how dare you criticise the creators!”

I think they’re having more fun making it than looking for a perfect solution.

Possibly, thus my point - reinventing the wheel.

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it can make calls, and send texts," LuckyBor writes of the project, which perhaps stretches the definition of “smartphone”

… And you need to remove the screen to insert a sim card. Now tell me again this is not ridiculous.

Take the first one off the shelf smartfone, wipe out the entire software, replace it with bloat free, spyware free, update free equivalent and voila!

Absolutely no need to reinvent the wheel, this is a road to nowhere.

This is ridiculous. What is needed is a support for advert & bloat & forced updates free smart phone, not reinventing the wheel. Yes, someone must be first - but it is about software, not hardware.

Fuck that. People spreading racial hate and public lies with the intention to mislead the public should be locked up.