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A while back I wanted to render some of these myself, the results can be seen at https://renders.datenvorr.at/. I have a few 760 megapixel versions of these that you can easily print at 1x1 meter with full detail if anyone is interested. I have a couple of these on my wall...

I used the project to familiarize myself with the C programming language, so the code quality is pretty bad. A while back I rewrote most parts of it, but never merged the finished result back into master...

I built a RISC-V emulator in python focused on extensibility and debugability for this exact purpose. It should be dead simple to use with plain RISC-V Assembly files. It has a userspace-only mode and a minimal privileged mode: https://github.com/AntonLydike/riscemu

Adding new instructions is as simple as adding a method to a class, as long as you are reading straight assembly files. If you want to parse ELF-files, you also have to add the opcodes for your command to the decoder (which is currently not very well documented). If you'd like to do that, feel free to open an issue and I'll work you through it.

I also built a minimal kernel, which works on the emulator, but it doesn't support IO and is very rough around the edges in general.

I must say I am extremely disappointed by my FairPhone 3+.

I have had mine now for about two years, and on the hardware-side it's okay. The camera is garbage, even on the model with the better camera (3+). The build quality is okay. I like the ease of ordering new parts, and it disassembles relatively easily (especially compared to all other flagship phones I am aware of).

The thing that makes is borderline unusable for me is the software.

A software update broke caller identification in LTE networks. All incoming calls would be marked as "Unknown number". This is worse than it sounds, as you can not call back if you missed a call, as you don't know who called. The support said it was aware of this issue, and that a patch was "on the way". In the mean time we should just disable LTE. Well, since the 3G network is dead, the only other option is Edge, which is utter garbage. They fixed it after three months(!).

A while later, the automatic display brightness adjustment just broke, randomly going to the lowest brightness setting, and then recovering a couple of seconds/minutes later.

My Fairphone got the android 11 update a month ago (better late then never), but that just broke more things. YouTube playback of anything more than 720p is unwatchable at 10-15fps. I get regular messages that something crashed due to being out of memory (nothing I was doing crashed). I sometimes cannot open the android dropdown menu, I have to really exaggerate the gesture to get any response.

I am seriously considering flashing a custom rom, as I have had less pain and problems with LineageOS in the past.

They said that the person being searched is not allowed to make phone calls, which is correct except when they want to contact their lawyer. They just omitted that part apparently...

This is pretty bad, apparently they didn't even let him contact his lawyer: "The actions of the police are also being criticized because Mai was apparently not allowed to contact his lawyer during the house search". That's just straight up illegal.