Schwim Dandy

I’m not a professional but it’s probably not healthy to compare your experiences to fictional content created for entertainment.

What kind of monster would downvote a dadjoke?

It’s really much harder than you’d imagine it’d be before starting if you’re hoping to retain the same level of convenience. I’d say nearly impossible.

I moved my phone to Graphene last week and have spent countless hours getting things to work and finding ways to do things without Google’s various apps and there is always a concession to be made. You can install those G-apps but that’s the whole point so you have to keep accepting things like no RCS in messages, no touch-to-pay, no reliable speech synthesis, a bunch of non-working apps if they rely on the play services, no whole-phone backup and restore, etc. The list is very, very long.

I’m not Google-free on it but with sandboxed and permission-stripped G-apps, I’m hoping I’m not leaking my data to Google.

It’s good to see the Fediverse adopting the better parts of Reddit that we all miss.

Checks out.

More interest is a very far cry from “linux phones are booming”. Linux phones are not booming, they are niche projects for people that like to tinker and don’t need any of the most popular phone apps and features.

Until we can install linux on more than a couple phones, trust cellular connections across all the networks and have access to the majority of features and apps that a smart phone should possess, linux phones will never “boom”.

I say this as a Ubuntu touch user on the Fairphone 4. It is not an experience that anyone else I know would accept from their smartphone.

I hope they choose to focus efforts on linux instead of trying to keep Google from fully obliterating their ability to offer apps on the Android platform.

Even if they are thrown a bone during this fight, it’s going to keep happening until they lose. The reason linux is so bad to try to use as a smartphone right now is because entities like these are busy trying to piss up a rope with Google and Android. We could have actually had robust and feature rich linux phones if they had taken the hint when Google first started shitting on people trying to use their Android phone in the way they want to.

Linux phones are booming.

Booming, eh?

If you’re having problems finding the linux line on the graph, it’s one of those at the 0%.