Project rebrand: Nura
nura.eco
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
    • Solrac@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      10 days ago

      I unironically love the name, but it’s definitely going to take me some time to get used to.

  • inari@piefed.zipEnglish
    33·
    10 days ago

    Yeah, “postmarketOS” had become a bit of a misnomer, since brand new phones can have it installed.

    • Solrac@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      19·
      10 days ago

      It worked wonderfully to get the point across; “This is an OS you flash after your phone is no longer supported”

      Nura is nice, I do like it, but I doubt it’ll have the same instant “Oh I get it” that the name “postmarketOS” had. I could be wrong though.

      • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
        121·
        10 days ago

        The people who understand the meaning of a post-market operative system will already have experience installing Linux on their computers, in which case postmarketOS is no longer really a meaningful description.

        I got used to pmOS, but never really liked it. Loving Nura, though it’ll take a while to get used to.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        I wanna get to the time when instead of “after your phone is no longer supported” we can get Nura-first devices we can expect will last many many years. :D

  • sbird@retrofed.comEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    Hey, that’s pretty neat! It looks like the name is based off a rock structure in Italy, representing stability :D

    It’s also nice that it’s easier to pronounce for non-native English speakers (or as a matter of fact, non-English speakers!)

    The new .eco URL is also interesting, from what I can tell it’s operated by a Canadian company called “Big Room”, and to register, you need to pledge that you will support positive change for the planet and you need to be transparent about your actions that could affect the environment.

    We’ve already seem sites with the .org TLD get struck down by the U.S. government (e.g. Autistici/Inventati getting sanctioned as a “global terrorist organisation” for providing email and blog hosting services to “far-left antifascist terrorists”), so moving away from that is probably a good thing.

    • Kajika@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      I don’t like the green washing domain costing 60 euros a year (+60 euros registration!) when it cost them cents… This is 101 gatekeeping internet in general, but I guess it OK for them to spent that amount of money to help closing the internet to small people with not that deep of money.

      And this is not coming from a hater, I participated to PostMarketOS (as dev), I like the project and want to see the project growing, but I can’t stand the current “slipping into fascism” trajectory of western societies. Giving corporation full control and removing everything that made the internet neutrality (you can’t own a domain unless you have quiet the money now, don’t event get me started on e-mail or IPv6). Green washing is not going to help.

        • Kajika@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          9 days ago

          The price already screams “green washing”, let’s see the policies:

          1- Take a simple pledge to show your commitment to environmental action.

          2 - Affirm your eligibility by sharing your eco actions and commitments.

          Yep! confirmed green washing.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      What about the old name was hard in German? It lacks the silent letters and bastardized French that English is known for.

  • Kajika@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    The internal refactoring is going to be crazy, the amount of pm in the code base is crazy.

    I just checked and for now internal everything is still pm.