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Debacle

Wer denkt sich so einen Käse aus?
#Digitalisierung mit dem #Holzhammer, ohne Sinn und Verstand.

tagesspiegel.de/wissen/ohne-sm

Vermutlich ist die App nicht mal #freieSoftware und läuft nicht auf alternativen Betriebssystemen wie #Mobian oder #PostmarketOS.

Da zahlt man 362.80 €/a, aber kann den Fahrschein nicht nutzen, wenn man kein Google Android oder Apple iOS haben will? Krass.

Der Tagesspiegel · Ohne Smartphone kein Ticket: Berliner Studierende verärgert über Semesterticket-AppBy Malte Neumann
#Digitalzwang#Handyzwang#Smartphonezwang
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@Randy

I have a PinePhone and a PinePhone Pro. They are fun to play with but the original PinePhone is slow. The Pro is much snappier. I am not demanding as far as phones go, I mainly do not wish to be tracked by the OS or the apps. As I am most familiar with debian Linux, mobian with phosh on the PinePhones works for me.

The main issues for me are lack of support for the built in cameras and poor battery life. The PinePhones can be made to sleep as a battery saving strategy and *should* wake up to an incoming call.

There are issues using Vivaldi (stable or snapshot) on the PinePhone. The touch interface support stops working after a few seconds. The address bar buttons and other UI buttons/controls stop working even though you can still type in addresses.

The Pro is much better in that respect and you can use Vivaldi for maybe an hour at a time without the touch support stalling. Restarting Vivaldi is the workaround if the touch interface ceases to respond. That or using keyboard navigation. Or attaching a mouse.

I looked at both Murena and Fairphone phones. The downside is that inevitably you will end up installing Android apps on them. I do not know to what degree app telemetry is blocked on de-Googled Android OSs.

#mobian#pinephone#foss
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@Randy @sinituulia

I am not an Android fan either. My current Android phone will not be replaced when I no longer need it.

I am sticking with my PinePhones until they are no longer supported.

Then I will see what is available in terms of devices running linux or linux on an Android kernel. Such as

theregister.com/2025/02/03/fur

The Register · FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocketBy Liam Proven
#pinephone#droidian#mobian
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ @debacle

>> 1. I don't want to use Google Android or Apple iOS. There is no first class client for Linux/#Debian/#Mobian.

Build one.

>> 2. I don't want to fuel the Amazon cloud of Jeff B., but prefer services in my home "country", the #EU.

Use #OpenStack or ask an EU provider to use it.

>> 3. I don't want to use a phone number for creating an account. E.g. it makes multi-account setups hard.

🔥 👍

>> …grey beard, but I'll stay with #Jabber 🙂

How about #Mastodon? 😉

@jgoerzen

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Linux G. Fossman

Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,

After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.

We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app : )

Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.

The #mobileLinux community is growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.

[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]

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Total Sonic Media

This is some bs. If AOSP development is made less publicly accessible it does NOT " simplify things for developers" but rather it hinders it for de-googled privacy respecting ROMs and their device ports. The need for continued and ramped up efforts developing alternative mobile OS's, like Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, Droidian, Mobian, Postmarket, etc. is even more apparent with this move by Google.
#linuxmobile #degoogled #android #aosp #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #mobian

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

Android 15 on Pixel screen
Ars Technica · Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releasesBy Ryan Whitwam
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