LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices

Post by a_gnostic » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 10:31 AM UTC

poisonborz wrote: post #74

reify wrote: post #2

I install Lineage on the phones of the elderly at local care homes and any people who are interested in prolonging the life of their old phones. Poor people can't afford a new phone every two years. When in your 80's you dont need or want the constant nagging of apps pestering you when all you want to do is text and call your family and friends. I use abd to delete/disable every unnecessary useless app and leave them…

Take something as simple and necessary like Messenger or WhatsApp. Try to use it with no previous knowledge, texting, calling, turning on camera during call. All the text the UI displays, how it is worded. It's ridiculously unintuitive, not inclusive, a real barrier. There should be law to mandate the UI of any app beyond a userbase of 100M. If you say that would severely restrict apps becoming that big, yeah that wo…

Post by poisonborz » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 10:32 AM UTC

drooopy wrote: post #95

poisonborz wrote: post #74

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Take something as simple and necessary like Messenger or WhatsApp. Try to use it with no previous knowledge, texting, calling, turning on camera during call. All the text the UI displays, how it is worded. It's ridiculously unintuitive, not inclusive, a real barrier. There should be law to mandate the UI of any app beyond a userbase of 100M. If you say that would severely restrict apps becoming that big, yeah that wo…

I kind of agree with this. Whatsapp for example, has become so incredibly big in many different parts of the world that it has become a sort of de facto standard for communication to the point where government agencies even use it to communicate information to citizens via chatbots. It feels to me like there is a need for formal standardization but how would you go about enforcing that?

Post by qiine » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 10:35 AM UTC

BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #82

poisonborz wrote: post #74

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Take something as simple and necessary like Messenger or WhatsApp. Try to use it with no previous knowledge, texting, calling, turning on camera during call. All the text the UI displays, how it is worded. It's ridiculously unintuitive, not inclusive, a real barrier. There should be law to mandate the UI of any app beyond a userbase of 100M. If you say that would severely restrict apps becoming that big, yeah that wo…

Recently I was helping someone in my life who'd gone through a stroke (not too old or tech-unsavvy) to learn a password manager and go through various websites' password reset flows. It really forced me to confront the reality of what you described, i.e. that computing really has become an inscrutable, confusing mess where nothing makes sense and we've just come to accept it. It used to feel like being "tech savvy" m…

Post by Double_a_92 » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 10:45 AM UTC

jaimex2 wrote: post #63

I gave up on custom Android roms after all the safety net crap and the special cameras that each phone brand seems to insist on. My next phone will be some kind of dedicated Linux one so I can finally finish killing big tech in my life.

Post by seabass-labrax » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 10:51 AM UTC

stacktrust wrote: post #99

seabass-labrax wrote: post #93

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> Not everything is an ism. Doro makes phones for people with poor eyesight. Most of those people are old. Glancing at their product catalogue, it doesn't seem much different from what you're doing with Lineage OS. Not everyone will have a geeky son to make a customised Lineage phone. Doro fills a niche. Be thankful someone does. My father has a Doro handset. I recommended it to him based on a misunderstanding of the…

BlindShell sells a phone for vision-impaired users, with support for popular assistive apps, plus audio for NFC tags, https://blindshellusa.com .