R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://floss.social/@alcinnz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alcinnz</span></a></span></p><p>I'm contemplating a move back to iOS (after nearly five years on Android), and I'm <em>very much</em> not happy about it.</p><p>If I do it, I will use my phone as a glorified dumbphone. I'll probably get a used iPhone 12 mini, just to make <em>sure</em> I don't use it for anything but a camera and basic texting (and one or two incidental work-y things) — my eyes don't like small phones.</p><p>I'd miss Syncthing and termux (native and nearly feature-complete local linux userspace) the most.</p><p>The <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/rcs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RCS</span></a> debacle was already frustrating me a great deal, and now this latest thing of making Android less and less FOSS is even more frustrating.</p><p>Egad to switch to FaceID? Ugh, that's just unthinkable. Maybe a used iPhone SE2. Such bad options. I hate the gesture navigation, too. I tried really hard to get used to it on Android, and gave up an <a href="https://rldane.space/gesture-navigation-is-lame.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">went back</a> to the clunky three-button navigation.</p><p>Maybe I'll switch to stock Android and learn how to disable the more odious googley things, but that's gross, too. :(</p><p>So, looks like my choices are:</p><ul><li>Kaleidoscope unicorn vomit from Cupertino</li><li>Gradually-sabotaged and outdated FOSS Android</li><li>Privacy-invading proprietary Android that all but tells you to install an authentication dongle up your butt (that'd be Meta's version, for sure)</li><li>Nigh unusable and buggy and/or limited Linux phone</li><li>Go live in a cave</li></ul><p>Maybe I can get a local realtor to show me some nice caves close to town? XD</p>