Dyskolos

Lol. That dude knew what he needed in live. Anime and a way home 😁

And yeah, informed purchases will often bite you in the ass. I usually take ages to come to a decision after weighing in as many factors as I could. By then it’s often sold out, EoL or more expensive.

Guess we are just sooooo niche that it’s not profitable in the slightest. Though the libretto was a bit on the big side for me. If I carry this around, I could also take my laptop. Which never left the house at all.

Ah okay, i just assumed you’re a kraut. Then again, my Zigbee-coordinators are ukranian, so that’s that :-) I picked the next best, as i never though i’d stay. I would also be fine with something like the nokia communicator from back then. just a bit more modern and open. Or even a blackberry without blackberry. The porsche P9100 (i think?) was a nice thing, i liked it. The thing itself though, not the OS nor the company.

8inch laptop would be something…with one of those tiny keyboards. Lovely.

I like to plan ahead…my pixel is aging, I wonder why it still lives. A laptop would be great. In the size of an 8" device 😁

I dunno, I only know one vendor that has a broad offering of WiFi. And last time I checked, it needed an app. But I would never use random public wifis anyway. Authoritarian regime? Judging by the Lemmy server you’re on, we’re in the same boat 😉

scroll Lemmy from public Wi-Fi.

Rarely can do, as free WiFi mostly just exist in like hospitals or such. And the apps that exist for other networks of their own “free” wifis need, you guessed right, net to begin with 😁

Not a real bummer for me though. If anyone can see that I went for a stroll in the park or went shopping, that is totally useless data. Should I ever do something where privacy matters, the thing is off. I survived no net as a kid, I will survive it some hours.

Also I do need the app whobird outside or some bug identifier. We like to know new stuff.

Python, which means it brings in 2 gigs of dependencies

Yeah lol. That’s a bit overkill

Some say C++ was a conspiracy,

I wish most would still be done in CPP. The amount of total sluggish, unoptimized, library-relient crap is legion nowadays. I was deep in the demo-scene once. Because they pushed a mashine to their limits. And they often showed what you COULD achieve. Then came winblows. And every clueless Joe became programmer, because it’s sooooo cool. (I’m none, I just code for fun or necessity)

my own solution"s that are piled up at the back of my head while I do nothing productive.

I have the strong feeling you’re all but non-productive. Which also is very subjective. If everyone would be so mindful of (modern) tech, the world would be different. This alone I find very productive.

no longer have a checkbox for MAC randomization per networ

Oh great…I didn’t notice because I actually need fixed macs for my DHCP and for a front layer of security by only allowing known macs. Outside, that’s a different thing

would need root, and I won’t get into details this time but that breaks some of Graphene’s architectural assumptions.

Indeed. Understandably so. But usually I demand to be able to own the device I bought. Noone would accept their Win-PC without privileges. At least not the majority I HOPE.

I am (mostly) fine with the Lineage

I did use it very often. Back then it was vastly easier to root/unlock any phone. Stupid google and the stupid manufacturers kinda killed it. Now only the devil himself is left. I’m tired of bricking and trying for days, just to own the fucking thing. I’m tired, boss. Really tired.

I just use graphene because I wanted to see it before judging it. And as long as my pixel lives, it seems very fine. Zero google. As far as I can say.

ow many of them are doing microprocessors (not a lot), and how many aren’t owned by oligarchs (zero).

Yeah of course you’re totally right. But still. Using a pixel, I publicly advocate for the worst of the worst. One of the destroyers of privacy and the internet. And I loved them when they started. Until the slogan “dont be evil” fell…

But while you’re totally right, what is the practical alternative? I’m not professional enough (or motivated) to do it all myself. What could one buy that is not only decent-ish (I love a great camera without having to carry a DLSR) but also runs android apps (emulated or whatever) and is private and my own? Sounds like a fantasy…

It’s a day I wouldn’t even notice something special. As I never used that piece of shit excuse of an app. Fuck Zuck.

You could use some VoIP provider

Oh I don’t even use my phone for calling or be called. If people don’t text me then bad luck for them, i only answer for my wife, everything else is silent. I value your privacy-levels that obviously beat mine (and i considered myself borderline paranoid), but if the telecom-company can track my position, i can live with that. In exchange i get mobility. A kinda fair deal, considering i grew up with rotary-phones being a “new thing”.

I also have a super-dumb-phone should that concern ever be…a more pressing matter.

That advice is clearly for people protesting, but even if not, some govt official could think you were at some illegal event.

I currently don’t need this level of security. But anyone might suddenly need it and then notice how difficult it became.

leave it at home when you are out of the house.

This would bring up the question: What do i need a phone for? for me it’s just a mobile computer for surfing to kill some time when i’m out somewhere having to wait. At home it’s going airplane or off, as i absolutely have no need for it.

anonymously purchased SIM card

That thing has been killed here (germany) a while ago. You now have to register to get one. Sure, you can snatch a “pre-registered” off of small-ads, but obviously for a decent markup.

And also Google for making an OS so bloated.

Oh yes, but not only google. Everything gets bloated as fuck AND devs become lazier and lazier. Done and gone are the days of optimizing software, quenching the last drip of power out of everything. Now we have layers over layers over layers and websites using 512319273 packages of already bloated 3rd-party-shit. And kudos to you still bothering with compiling your own, my nerves are not made for this. Especially since it became so useless as every vendor tries their best in making it harder to even be able to unlock the shit.

Wi-Fi MAC randomization

Maybe it helps: i dunno which android-version, they had a bug with OFF=ON and vice versa. So “random mac=fixed”. Made me so effing angry.

and since I don’t have Google services AND it’s in airplane mode constantly, it has no events to wake up for and literally doesn’t connect to Wi-Fi until I press a side button.

superfucking annoying.

But still, in the end, a lineage from 2016 sadly is no answer to “what fucking phone to get nowadays” :-) So far I’m fine with graphene, but it’s on a google-phone and as i block everything google, i kinda feel like a traitor with a pixel.

That doesn’t sound great about ubuntu. But i kinda would’ve expected a bit not-so-open from them. But as said, I really have not dug deep into alternatives so far, but when i have to, i will probably just get them all and try. Jolla sounded good too on a quick glance. You make that sounds hollow too. But what’s your alternative? Or did you just cave in and go google? or even worse: apple. Though apple at least never tried to hide their shittyness.

I don’t even have a good oversight of what’s available. And it’s useless as long as my pixel lives. When it’s done, the market will have changed massively anyway 😁

But Jolla sounded nice. Right now I would want an Ubuntu touch. But that really is an uninformed opinion.

Only thing I will miss, no matter which I’d take, will be a great camera probably.

This day marks my end with android. Also helped greatly in ditching all US big tech.

Will my new Linux or whatever phone be technically worse? Probably. Do I care? Nope.

Fuck you google, from the depth of my heart. Go die in a forestfire.