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What it costs to build AOSP 16 on a 2010 IBM x3650 M3

I needed to build /e/OS to work on the prototype of a new feature. I had the idea of restarting an old machine, and I honestly wondered whether it would still cope with a modern AOSP tree.

It did, after two repairs: I added 32 GB of RAM (48 GB in total) and replaced a failing disk in the RAID array. Here is the full /e/OS build for the Fairphone 6 (AOSP 16, LineageOS 23.0 base) on a rack server whose CPUs predate AVX: the time, memory, disk, bandwidth and power it takes, and what breaks along the way.

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One month with my new Murena GS6 Pro: finally a Murena phone that checks all my boxes

Recently I decided to change my Murena smartphone because its battery was really dying: I had to recharge several times a day and it was becoming problematic when travelling for business. Unfortunately this model didn’t have a replaceable battery, so it was difficult to change.

Also I thought it was the good time because we had just released the Murena GS6 and GS6 Pro, which seemed to check all the things I wanted to have in a phone. A good opportunity to test it “in real life”, not as a CEO looking at a spec sheet, but as a daily user.

As a side note, it’s also been a great way to test our new /e/OS Backup feature with a real load of data: all my installed apps, settings, accounts… I switched phones in less than an hour, and everything was there. This feature alone changes the experience of replacing a phone.

So it’s now been close to one month that I’ve been using the GS6 Pro as my main device, and I must say that I’m very happy with this phone…

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