the collaborative world works off of demand. Pocket laptops and linux phones have been a nice distraction for long enough. They may soon become more of a saving grace.

I’m not saying you’ll be able to run Spyware Simulator 2000 on PostmarketOS. I’m more saying that any secondary device you use for foss software will be more focused upon as an actual decent alternative for getting work done without being spied on by capitalist nazis.

These devices can run web browsers. That’s 80% of your needs already taken care of and we haven’t even left Firefox.

CARRY TWO PHONES??!!

What will the neighbors think!?

I readily await the visibility and interest this will give mobile linux development.

Bribing people with technologies that do nothing. Since cost and worth aren’t really quantifiable with some of these technologies, all of these actions might as well be seen as just shallow bribes and favors to those in power.

Don’t feel pressured by me. If you feel pressured yourself, it may be a form of projected guilt.

If you don’t find privacy and security important enough to give up your connectivity or usability, that’s perfectly fine. I don’t have to live with it.

You always have a choice. You can ditch your morals entirely, give up, be subservient to the capitalists and give your identity over fully to the system like the good little consumer slave you are and enjoy your normie life looking at your normie phone and toss us all out as tinfoil-hatted weirdos who almost convinced you to make your life worse for the sake of self-sufficiency, independence and privacy.

No one in the real world will ever know, care, or judge you. Only you will know that you gave up, that every location you exist in is known about by someone behind a monitor being overseen by fascists. Every day! You can live with that, right? That’s a small thing to give up in the grand scheme of things, isn’t it? At least Youtube loaded today, right? It’s all worth it, lol.

Just remember to type “thanks” in google keyboard whenever you want them to know you appreciate them. They log it.

There is an interesting new breed of flip phones that can be tethered to for internet access. I could imagine a flip-phone + laptop setup being perfect for a lot of users here.

I’m going to try all of them. I’ve always wanted to just go to ebay, buy a 6T and try some of these operating systems. It’s the target phone for about half of them. What interests me the most is Plasma Mobile on PostmarketOS. It looks slick and not too dissimilar from Android.

Linux on mobile is very model specific. The 6T isn’t even perfectly supported by anything, it’s just supported enough to be functional.

Why the 6T? Just the right mix of hardware that released with the right mix of software to make it ideal. the Pixel 3 also had a lot of Linux compatibility.

This sucks for the average person but, well, everything tends to. If you don’t look for avenues around literally everything “default”, you’re being scammed. They don’t, so they will be.

I do, so I’ll be carrying a Oneplus 6T and slapping a mobile Linux OS on it for my needs.

that’s not usable!

For you.

1. Nothing
2. They just needed an excuse. You believing it isn’t a concern.

I hardly believe foss faithful people would ever carry a laptop

The whole thinkpad obsession in the linux/foss community isn’t visible to you?

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Enjoy Tamriel, newcomer!

Forgot the /s?

Seems about right, for as long as they can.

I’d even consider the possibility of “google-free” phones showing up on kickstarter in two or three years for the tinkerer market. That market exists. Raspberrypi didn’t buy itself. We are here!

Or we just… ignore them?

LineageOS and GrapheneOS could just be like “well, go on, then.”

There’s a market for everything and the FOSS and maker markets would eat up an open Android phone, even if the only apps you could install were community-created.

Dumbphone with tethering

A mini laptop/cyberdeck

A modern mp3 player

A small, modern point and click camera

hey gramps, where’d you get that gear, 2007?

There’s already a firm divide between the foss/self sufficiency crowd and modern tech.

If this is bad enough, you’d see every foss faithful walking around with a laptop, mp3 player and camera like they’re in 2009.

Looks to me like they’ve been complying for 20 years or so. No real change needed on their part.

I see it this way.

Google wants everyone using gapps to be identified but isn’t outright saying you can’t use Android without certification.

“Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it’s a certified device”

So LOS and Graphene may get off the hook on this and be able to install whatever non-google apps they need. By default, neither have google services.

Sucks for the gapps people, but, I mean. They knew it was coming, right?

…What about after September 2026?

Well, there’s one teensy tiny caveat.

Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it’s a certified device.

So, in theory… no gapps, no approval necessary?

Open devs just have to have two versions, as many already do, one signed with Google’s spyware and one on github/fdroid with nothing.

Looks like I’m gonna just carry a stock phone, give it nothing but the most basic information and tether it to a laptop over a VPN. They stop tethering? I’ll use VOIP and a hotspot.

Welcome back to 2011. Maybe messenger bags will come back into fashion in foss culture.