Yeah… I’m rapidly approaching the point of just learning to live without a smartphone altogether as it becomes more and more frustrating to find one that has what I want.
That is correct, currently, moving to a linux phone will lose you more than what you’re losing with Google and Apple changes.
Apps are just part of the problem. Running a full linux OS on a phone with all the normal mobile phone capabilities is also an exercise in frustration. Taking Ubuntu Touch as an example, the OS has been around since 2011, was released in 2014 and it’s list of approved phones is still minuscule. If you’re a person on VZW, that list grows even smaller as VoLTE is problematic enough to be considered impossible to get working reliably.
I truly hope that the linux phone landscape shapes up but in it’s current form, it’s actually losing ground as it’s development is slower than the hardware development and at it’s current rate, will never be a viable option.
At this point I’d rather keep my freedom and lose the convenience. If it means losing apps and horsepower, fine by me. I’m already half resigned to going back to a dumbphone. I’m also looking at options to assemble my own phone with off the shelf parts if that’s what it takes.
Phone calls, SMS, data as a baseline. GPS, and a way to run signal would be great. Everything else would be gravy.
My first thought was to use a pi zero as a base from which to build. Getting everything to fit in a package that fits in my pocket would be next. I can go to a machine shop to make a case from aluminium, rubber gaskets for water protection. Unfortunately I have a more than full time job and can’t really dedicate any time to figuring this out, but if there are reproducible instructions already out there, then I will be looking at that option and start getting the parts to build.
It also helps that my phone carrier is offering me a free line right now so I can run 2 phones like a drug dealer.
Exactly why self hosting and getting open source hardware is extremely important. At this point in ready to assemble a phone with off the shelf parts if that’s what it takes.
Sounds like switching will mean we will lose everything we’re already losing. Might as well go ahead and quit cold turkey.
Yeah… I’m rapidly approaching the point of just learning to live without a smartphone altogether as it becomes more and more frustrating to find one that has what I want.
That is correct, currently, moving to a linux phone will lose you more than what you’re losing with Google and Apple changes.
Apps are just part of the problem. Running a full linux OS on a phone with all the normal mobile phone capabilities is also an exercise in frustration. Taking Ubuntu Touch as an example, the OS has been around since 2011, was released in 2014 and it’s list of approved phones is still minuscule. If you’re a person on VZW, that list grows even smaller as VoLTE is problematic enough to be considered impossible to get working reliably.
I truly hope that the linux phone landscape shapes up but in it’s current form, it’s actually losing ground as it’s development is slower than the hardware development and at it’s current rate, will never be a viable option.
At this point I’d rather keep my freedom and lose the convenience. If it means losing apps and horsepower, fine by me. I’m already half resigned to going back to a dumbphone. I’m also looking at options to assemble my own phone with off the shelf parts if that’s what it takes.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither. - Thomas Jefferson
i hear there is actual good stuff to be done with stripped raspberry pis.
what are you looking at for making a practical phone?
Phone calls, SMS, data as a baseline. GPS, and a way to run signal would be great. Everything else would be gravy.
My first thought was to use a pi zero as a base from which to build. Getting everything to fit in a package that fits in my pocket would be next. I can go to a machine shop to make a case from aluminium, rubber gaskets for water protection. Unfortunately I have a more than full time job and can’t really dedicate any time to figuring this out, but if there are reproducible instructions already out there, then I will be looking at that option and start getting the parts to build.
It also helps that my phone carrier is offering me a free line right now so I can run 2 phones like a drug dealer.
As read by Spock although Civilization a slightly different version attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
You saw how fast companies waffles when you hurt the money like they did with jimmy Kimmel. Greedy and souless
Exactly why self hosting and getting open source hardware is extremely important. At this point in ready to assemble a phone with off the shelf parts if that’s what it takes.