May as well just get an old school Nokia and skip the smartphone technology all together. Get yourself a nice flip phone and go back to the early 2000's. If you need to do something online, just bring your laptop with you - some are so small that they're easy to carry around in a backpack or side bag.
I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
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Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
#22Shoutout to Purism... if you got the loot. https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/
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Even if you're sour on American exceptionalism, this seems like a valid and good product to me, both from a privacy standpoint and from an ethical labor standpoint?
Am I the only one who remembers the suicide nets at Foxconn?
Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
#23Shoutout to Purism... if you got the loot. https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/
Most distributors are based in the US with the exception of large integrated circuits that are made in a variety of countries where those companies do fabrication (US, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan); an example is the NXP CPU we use from their fabrication in South Korea.
Boards:
M.2 Modem Module China, inquire for USA/EU options
M.2 WiFi/BT Module India, inquire for more options
It's not going to win the market, but I applaud anyone providing more choices.
Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
#24>I've become more and more dissatisfied with the path Google has taken with the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Be it the dependency and insane tracking of Google Play Services AOSP does not include nor depend on Play Services. >locking down of device trees to hinder custom ROM development Most manufacturers do not distribute these either. The user doesn't even have a pixel so it is not relevant. >all the AI stuf…
Aosp without Google play services is dead. You need it more and more to run apps.
Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
#25Did you consider postmarketOS? https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_4_(fairphone-fp...
Number of devices fully supported: 0
Oh, you linked to Fairphone 4, let's see:
- battery: partial
- audio: partial
- camera: partial
- fingerprint: broken
postmarketOS device support is a joke, they couldn't even get ONE vendor to support the OS..
Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
#26Mobian is where my hope is...
Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
#27May as well just get an old school Nokia and skip the smartphone technology all together. Get yourself a nice flip phone and go back to the early 2000's. If you need to do something online, just bring your laptop with you - some are so small that they're easy to carry around in a backpack or side bag.
Or a Commodore phone. They're pretty snazzy.
Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
#28Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
#29Did you consider postmarketOS? https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_4_(fairphone-fp...
Number of devices fully supported: 0 Oh, you linked to Fairphone 4, let's see: - battery: partial - audio: partial - camera: partial - fingerprint: broken postmarketOS device support is a joke, they couldn't even get ONE vendor to support the OS..
Purism Librem 5 is fully supported: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Purism_Librem5_(purism-li...
Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
#30Not to mention that your android/ios device is still shipping a bunch of bluetooth tokens for "track and trace" system. Cryptographically signed to you. https://covid19.apple.com/contacttracing
Exposure Notifications is no longer available in Android as of like 2023. https://developers.google.com/android/exposure-notifications