The worst solution

Jun 29, 2026 - Nazarenko Mykyta

Toys

We all loved toys as children, and now we’re grown up, but we still buy toys. We live in a world where money rules, and the vast majority of people believe in the cult of “beauty and candy wrappers”.

What’s my point? Let’s talk about it.

We all know what marketing and advertising are. This thing ruins many, but the essence of both is the same: to get you to click a button and order the product you like. Everything I’m talking about is present almost everywhere, but sometimes a product turns out to be truly good, which, unfortunately, is quite rare. And out “guest” today - Flipper One, doesn’t fail into that “rare” exception.

Big fail

On May 21 / 2026, Pavel Zhovner posted an article on Habr. This article reads less like an actual “announcement” of the device and more like a whining about how their bunch of “coders” needs help.

Original article on Habr : https://habr.com/ru/companies/flipperdevices/articles/1033162

Throughout the article, they try to explain to us why the development of this “cyberdeck” is difficult, why they need help from the community and the funniest part of the article is “ambitious tasks”.

• Create the most open and well-documented ARM computer in the world, with full support in the mainline Linux kernel - so that you can download the kernel from kernel.org and it will work immediately on Flipper One.
• Convince vendors to open their existing closed code and get rid of binary blobs and crutches entirely.
• Mold a non-standard hardware platform from a microcontroller and CPU and port a bunch of code to the MCU level.
• Rethink how people use Linux and develop your own GUI framework with wrappers of existing CLI utilities.

Each of these “ambitious” points causes a lot of laughter from people who understand low-level development. Why?

The claim that RK3576 is almost completely supported is an idiotic marketing ploy. In fact, fully supported :

• CPU
• GPU ( Mali-G52 MC3 ) via Panfrost.
• eMMC
• SD
• Ethernet
• UART
• I2C, SPI, GPIO

Those who know how it all works in the Finnish kernel, know that the implementation of all this does not require huge efforts. Next, what is fully or partially unsupported:

• NPU
• VPU
• DisplayPort Alt Mode via USB-C
• DDR Trainer ( blob from Rockchip ) in U-Boot

What’s wrong, Pavel?

This article is a stream of endless promises that will not be fulfilled, even despite the cooperation of Collabora. After all, this “organization” has exactly the same influence on Rockchip as Flipper Devices Inc. does..

How you can say that “we’ll be able to convince them to open source-code of DDR Trainer” if it’s literally the most secret piece of code from Rockchip, these guys not worried about GPL at all, they’re just making a lot of money.

Why make promises and then, in the same moment ask for help? Is it correct? No.

Relying on the community was a bad idea from the start, as the company’s audience is mostly made up of teenagers, but the attempt is so funny.