I don’t know if I like what fairphone is doing, is not a lot ago the new fairphone 5 came out… If they plan to support a phone for 10 years, what’s the point in releasing another model…?

When Linux phones?

(Actually usable ones)

Probably an unpopular opinion but if you want absolute minimalism without ads use Violoncello text browser!

My god would love to see all events on pixelfeld instead of Instagram…

I don’t fucking care of having an even slimmer addictive machine in my pockets. Give me a phone that weights 400g but that has a fucking replaceable battery (that lasts 2/3 days), a good OS, doesn’t track me and I can set up as I want.

Hisense A9 with full root + microG

A minimalist eink anti addictive machine that brings smartphones back to an actually useful tool removing literally all the bullshits.

There’s Bitcoin and lightning network :)

Okay then, i think i’m buying a new guitar

This is actually something i wanna get more informed on, for example i see that e/os is still supporting the first google pixel (from 2016), it’s already 7 years of updates. However i think that applies just to the OS update, not the security patches, am i right?

If you search it online you can find that people have some issues with computer running amd ryzen processor and the adb and fastboot commands, i don’t know if it’s the case, but i couldn’t find any other reasons on why a TWRP nandroid backup that was completely fine when i took it and didn’t prompt any error couldn’t be restored.

It’s not a disk image, it is a particular type of compression that packs up different parts of the system (system, data, vendor etc…).

I also tried to enter the backup by using a tool that converts .ab backup in .tar, but i didn’t manage to do it.

Anyway i don’t really care if i lost that particular backup, i just want to avoid it to happen again

How do you sandbox google apps in android?

Yeah the web version is cool but it doesn’t give you the navigation and can’t find your position, usually i wouldsearch for a destination in webview and open it in another nav, but that doesn’t work well if you are by foot for example…

But that might actually be the case tho, because i don’t get any position without my cellphone data active (only with GPS it can’t find a position) that might explain why it gets so long sometimes.

Yeah but with graphene at least you can limit the permissions google maps has and treat the app like every other normal app, isolated and not able to grab informations if you’re not using it, i wonder if there’s a way to use it with an anonymous google account just like Aurora.

Yeah sure planning ahead helps, but it’s difficult when everyone else you are with has a different workflow or if something unexpected happens…

I will try osmand again for public transports, but the problem is sometimes with the mozilla geolocation services (default in lineage) you get your position after 10 minutes (or you just don’t get it sometimes) and it isn’t precise at all, in my experience it was working well with car but by foot it just can’t sort out where you are…

For the google phone it’s not just the thing of giving money to google, it’s also that i’m tired of phones you cannot unmount, change battery or other basic pieces like the screen, i would get a fairphone, but i’m not really sure the price is worth it.

I tried osmand, but was working even worse with finding my position and getting me to places

That’s actually a good option, but i guess i would need to install Gapps and google geolocation service too, is it possible inside shelter?

It does work for maps, but doesn’t get your location so it’s not very good for navigation