Linux Phones

Here's the plan:

1. Normal Cellphone
2. Kobo
3. MP3 player
4. Thinkpad
5. A Faraday bag

1 will make calls, texts, pay parking fees, let me into concerts and call 911, and nothing else

2 will allow me to continue to read anticapitalist books without being tracked

3 will allow me to continue listening to anticapitalist music without being tracked

4 will allow me to continue discussions about how shit capitalism is with my fellow scorned and continue saying Trump is a pedo and 8647 when I feel like tossing more darts at his mental image, use XMPP, IRC, TOR, Ygg, you know, the gang.

5 will allow me to ditch the fascists when I'm done playing the part of a normal citizen on a daily basis.

I use GrapheneOS, personally. Whenever I get a new laptop, I fully intend to install Linux Mint on it.

Linux phone time

There will never be progress so long as device owners cannot unlock the bootloaders on their phones.

For those who have the means, please consider donating to PostmarketOS, which has been slowly but surely pushing forward pure linux support for phones, and is the best longterm solution we have to completely circumvent Google and reclaim our hardware permenantly.

F-Droid is way more trustworthy than google pay.

I didnt care really about switching OS's, but i do start to care when a fucking company gets abusive. Not only that. I get spiteful and petty. And that generally supplies enough fuel to get me through the pains of moving to a new system quite well.

When Windows 7 was discontinued, i used linux. Now im still using linux, outside of some work i did a couple of years back, none of my devices run windows.

Btw, i baught (with money!) Windows since 3.11 (Windows 3.11 - Win 98 - Win 2000 - WinXP - Win 7)

The dumb part is that this won't even solve the problem. It will be trivially easy to get dev certificates through a shell company. Anyone who is making money off scamware will have no trouble standing up LLCs faster than Google can ban them.

Sounds like a boon for other projects like Graphene, Postmarket, Lineage, Ubuntu Touch, etc

Make sure to donate and I hope the devs switch gears and leave Google behind.

I just want to know what is going to my fdroid apps when this comes in. Will they all get binned? Disabled? Just fail to load until I jump through the new "untrusted" sources hoops?

What gets me is that upstream linux has had this solved by trusting repo keys for years, why not let the end user be the trust arbiter