fairphones can also run LineageOS if you want to go a step further and remove gapps. for the really bold, you can run postmarketOS on fairphone 4 or 5 to remove android entirely. there are sacrifices in android functionality, but with serious gains by way of Linux desktop to counter those.
SMS and phone calling should behave normally on most OSs (if not ready yet then its not a daily driver candidate for me yet). I can’t speak to WhatsUp; I strongly recommend something like Signal instead. I know WhatsApp is popular tho, but if they require device integrity there’s not much we can do solve that
Great question! I’ll post a followup after the phone arrives and I’ve had some time to experiment. My bank’s app might run under waydroid for now, but I’m concerned they’ll subscribe to Google device integrity bs once implemented. When that happens, I’ll be limited to browser only. This is fine for checking balances and transferring funds between accounts, but I’ll lose access to remote deposit functionality. I’ll either have to occassionally use my old phone for that, or drive to a branch like we did in the pre-internet days.
nice! the phone won’t arrive for a few weeks anyway, so I’ll try the latest available at the time. working audio is kind of important to me for a daily driver, but as a long-time debian fan mobian is my first choice for the core phone os - and as soon as possible. i might have to settle for something like ubuntu touch in the short term as a transitional distro, but debian/mobian is what I’m planning to eventually run (with kde’s plasma-mobile interface)
agreed, and it’s my last linux-like choice. If nothing works well enough I’ll just resort to Lineage OS and run android for awhile. My true long-term hope is to run Mobian (or postmarket) + plasma-mobile, but assuming those aren’t ready to daily drive in the FP5 yet, ubuntu touch could make a reasonable “middle ground” in the short term
yup! I’ll be testing multiple distros on it to see what works best and post an update in a month or two (the shipping’s gonna take awhile)
someone else asked for a comparison of various distros on the same hardware. I’ll write something after a few rounds of experimenting to see what does or doesn’t work in a given distro. the phone’s shipping from “across the pond” tho, so I won’t see it for at least a few weeks.
encouraging!
thanks; I forgot about that one… I’ll check it out!
How does it make you feel that they probably use ‘Eliza’?
They probably use ‘Eliza’
I just use classic rsync for that, though in my case both the local and cloud servers are running Linux. I know that doesn’t exactly answer your question, but its an alternate approach to consider in the long term.
I try to use “direct-install” or “adb-install” vs “google-install” for clarity.
The term “sideload” has been around a LONG time tho; sometimes its difficult to de-program muscle memory.
I really want to run wayland but there are still some missing bits required for my workflow. Of particular importance to me, the ability to connect to RustDesk auto-launched on a headless server, and clipboard sharing in DeskFlow. My understanding is that these are still broken only because the devs are still waiting for wayland back-end additions to be implemented.
I’m all for wayland, but they need to catch up first.
A little disengenuous considering the article is a blatant plug for e/OS. They’re not wrong though. It might be written plainly enough to share with average Joes who just don’t understand the threat data harvesting poses to them.
Edit: typo
Rclone is super sweet. I use it to backup Google Drive volumes, automatically converting the proprietary web-doc formats to OpenDoc files. It’s powerful & awesome!
Originally coming from free-level VMware before Broadcom happened, I really like Proxmox. Proxmox gives you a relatively easy to use web interface to “spin up” container services and VMs as needed. There are also community repos with plenty of pre-built containers for popular self-hosting services. I find this setup generally easier to use and maintain than Docker (tho I’m sure die-hard Docker fans heartily disagree). I really appreciate that I can update my services at will without waiting for someone to build an updated docker image first.
FinAmp is a fantastic JellyFin music player, and even supports offline downloads for on the road. Sadly the interface isn’t really AndroidTV-friendly, but it works great on android touch screens, iOS, linux, and macOS (probably Windows too, but I’ll never know).
I’m looking for a good AndroidTV player as well, because the official JellyFin app doesn’t background well. We like to play music in parallel with a screensaver or fireplace app, but JellyFin pauses after about a minute when hackgrounded.
I run Adguard Home containers (the primary auto-syncs to the secondary) and use redirect filters to assign hostnames to each of my containers. I have a “services” folder of bookmarks for each container host so I don’t have to remember each service’s port number. I use KeePassXC to track all my passwords and certificates so authentication is a breeze (someday I’ll get around to setting up an SSO solution). I also keep a .txt file with my basic network info that doesn’t always translate well to dns hostname redirects in adguard. I occassionally remember to update my hosts listed in the file. My individual config files aren’t backed up beyond my automated container backups, but so far none of my services have been that complicated I couldn’t just rebuild from scratch.
It’s not perfect, but combined with my automated backups I have barely enough to rebuild if/when my hardware fails.
It’s been happening on the latest macOS as well. I just quit and relaunch the app to fix it; but yeah, it’s annoying.