I did for many years too. But I needed Android Auto for a new car. It kind of forced the issue and it wasn't easy and I'm not happy how custom my install is now.
jabjoe
joined 1 year ago
GrapheneOS does look interesting. Though the Android Auto, that I use as the car satnav (with OSMAnd+), looks like it might be even more a pain to setup...
I can't get over what a techo-political dystopia is, without a lot of faff. We need some law here, forcing standardized open interfaces! (And copyright trolling DRM pushing dark forces will fight that, because of media playing)
It looks like another closed app "build on open source". Not sure it's much more trust worthy than WhatsApp anyway. Need to read up. I wonder if I'm better of exploring open alteratives also set up my own Matrix bridges that Beeper is built on anyway. Though I've not heard good things about maintaining Matrix bridges.
I hope the EU get through the forced interoperability of chat apps......
Even without any of the Google services installed? I don't think that's true. It doesn't have my Google login.
Banks don't always have a mobile friendly web interface. When you turn on desktop mode (Firefox on Android of course) the site may load but not be very useable. (Though sometimes that is more useable than a bad mobile site)
Oh my phone is old, but 6GB RAM is still ok. LineageOS gives me the latest Android on old hardware, while giving me an easy out of Google data mining.
OK, now that is very cool. It's like Pidgin for 2023 and phones. I may well give that a try! May solve the messaging bit.
So don't work in Word docs. It's not a proper standard anyway.
LibreOffice is good enough. Thunderbird is good. There is no shortage of development tools on Linux, if anything, it is the best development platform.
I switched 100% for 2012 when I changed job from game development to Linux development . I'd been 100% Linux at home since 2005, but changing work platform was the acid test.
Microsoft can get stuffed. I've not needed them for over a decade.
Oh yes. I've had massive compiles (well linking) which failed because of the OOM killer, and I did exactly the same, massive swap so it will just keep going. So what if it's using disk as RAM and unusable for a few hours in the middle of the night, at least it finishes!
To be honest, you don't get a good or cheap EV out of that. Low kWh per mile and short range.
Exactly. If you don't have root, you don't "own" the device. Apps, like bank apps, that refuse to run on devices with root access, (or custom OSs) should be illegal.