slamphear

Mapping your neighborhood is actually a lot of fun if you use StreetComplete! Nice way to get outside and explore.

Android Auto works well! I've used Finamp, Antennapod, CoMaps, and Google Maps with it and they all work great. I can voice search destinations with Google Maps while driving and it works. The only downside of Android Auto is that you have to install some Google apps for it to work, which feels icky on an otherwise-de-Googled device. No connection issues.

Battery life is great! I did an experiment when I first got it to see how long I could go without charging and got 3 full days (with plenty of use, since I was excited to play with my new phone). I'm ending most days around 50% now that I've got a bunch of stuff always running in the background (KDE Connect, Tailscale, etc.).

The mic and speaker aren't amazing, but I haven't had anyone say they've had trouble hearing me. I haven't encountered anything I would describe as a bug, though I'd say that my previous phone (an iPhone 15 Pro Max) had noticeably better speakers.

And I actually don't know about the haptics, since I leave my ringer on pretty much all the time. I've definitely had times when I've been in a concert or movie with it silenced and felt notifications, but I have no idea if I'd be able to detect them if I were walking around or something. I've always been a ringer-on guy unless I'm wearing a smartwatch.

For what its worth, I've been daily driving a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS for over 4 months now and it seems quite polished to me. I've had a small number of issues that I've had to work through (as has been the case with every phone I've ever used), but I definitely wouldn't describe it as "very buggy."

Yeah, 5G works (I'm on it at the moment!). No issues with MMS, but I haven't tested RCS since I'm on /e/OS (which doesn't support RCS as far as I'm aware - I just use SMS/MMS and Matrix). The visual voicemail functionality in the stock /e/OS Phone app doesn't work with Mint Mobile, but the T-Mobile Visual Voicemail app does work.

Yup! I daily drive a Fairphone 6 with Mint Mobile in the US.

So you're suggesting that the AI "knew" that the "Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse" app wasn't FOSS, but recommended it to OP anyway when they asked for a FOSS app, and it did so out of malice? Or you think Google has provided explicit instructions for Gemini to promote non-FOSS apps to people who ask for FOSS apps because they're evil?

Seems much more likely to me that the LLM just doesn't actually understand anything it's talking about and the embedding space it ended up in when given OP's prompt caused it to surface this random non-FOSS app.

Thus, Hanlon's Razor.

Just read The Rust Book. It's free, and you're more than well-prepared.

Then when you finish that, get Rust for Rustaceans.

Or if books aren't your thing, there are some alternative learning methods on the Rust site.

Hanlon's Razor

Oh nice! So the only two differences I could find are no longer differences. 😂

Does anyone have experience with both /e/ and iodé? I'm curious to know how they compare. It looks like maybe iodé supports Android Auto, which would be cool since /e/ (which I'm currently daily driving) doesn't. However, it also looks like iodé isn't open-source, which is a deal-breaker for me unless there's some good reason for it that I just don't know.

Does Clove ship to Canada? I know some US folks have gotten theirs from there. (I got mine from Murena, but I'm guessing that's not yet an option in Canada.)

Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm running a de-Googled Android (/e/OS on a Fairphone 6) and using the KDE Connect app on there to sync up with my desktop (via GSConnect in NixOS since I'm running GNOME, though KDE Connect would be preferable if you're running Plasma). It's not perfect, and I've run into a few bugs (especially with regard to group messages), but it's surprisingly reliable otherwise.