Someone who knows, be honest with me. Can this shit reliably do the following: make and receive calls, sms, email, play music, gps maps for driving? That is literally all I need and I wanna go FOSS in my life where I can without making my life substantially worse. Is this shit Ubuntu touch or is it something else?
>make and receive calls, sms,
Use jmp.chat and you don't have to care about the hardware > email,
Why would the hardware affect this? >play music,
Why would the hardware affect this? > gps maps for driving?
There's Mepo but tbh I switched back to paper maps years ago. There's something weird about letting the computer tell you where to turn.
The difference is you can make changes to the OS on Linux so if anything bothers you it can be fixed *right there* and not bother you again. If you haven't used Linux on the desktop you probably haven't experienced what I'm talking about but it's really incredible.
>no banking apps or identification apps
This is the only way my phone has made my life easier. Paying bills with a QR code, seeing my medical record with a fingerprint.
I like Linux for computers, but I'd rather go back to dumbphones than use a Linux phone.
Talking about apps. You log in with your fingerprint, you scan a QR code, you confirm with a fingerprint again.
5 seconds in and out. Haven't used online banking in years but I doubt it's half as simple. Guessing you need to use your card and a card reader.
my xiaomeme phone with crdroid on it is still working just fine, so no
Does it have hardware acceleration for AVIF?
Someone who knows, be honest with me. Can this shit reliably do the following: make and receive calls, sms, email, play music, gps maps for driving? That is literally all I need and I wanna go FOSS in my life where I can without making my life substantially worse. Is this shit Ubuntu touch or is it something else?
>make and receive calls, sms,
Use jmp.chat and you don't have to care about the hardware
> email,
Why would the hardware affect this?
>play music,
Why would the hardware affect this?
> gps maps for driving?
There's Mepo but tbh I switched back to paper maps years ago. There's something weird about letting the computer tell you where to turn.
>mfw I see a fat sperg at a bus stop fumbling with his stacks of maps and a pen, sweating nervously as everyone in a 200m radius laughs at him
At least I know where I am instead of relying on a computer!
I used to run a pinephone (regular) and it could do all of that except gps maps. The reason I don't use it anymore is because I broke it like a moron.
How is it more repairable then my iphone
I'll buy anything with mainline kernel support.
Is this the "I'm to poor to afford an iPhone so I must cope" club?
knowing all these libre cool shit phones it's probably more expensive than iphone while providing less features
Running a compiler locally is a pretty huge feature...
Could be great in winter, I suppose.
>t. goy cattle
Thats available on every Android
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/
The difference is you can make changes to the OS on Linux so if anything bothers you it can be fixed *right there* and not bother you again. If you haven't used Linux on the desktop you probably haven't experienced what I'm talking about but it's really incredible.
>If you haven't used Linux on the desktop
thats a bit more of a difference than just a compiler
>no banking apps or identification apps
This is the only way my phone has made my life easier. Paying bills with a QR code, seeing my medical record with a fingerprint.
I like Linux for computers, but I'd rather go back to dumbphones than use a Linux phone.
What are you even talking about? Online banking works fine in Firefox on Linux.
Try leaving home once.
I do all the time. In person payments are all credit cards.
What about nfc
My credit cards have NFC? I really don't know why you're using a phone for this.
Talking about apps. You log in with your fingerprint, you scan a QR code, you confirm with a fingerprint again.
5 seconds in and out. Haven't used online banking in years but I doubt it's half as simple. Guessing you need to use your card and a card reader.
Why do you need a fingerprint reader for online banking? None of this makes any sense.
Maybe if it's small
>yet another giant piece of shit with a hole in the screen
Where else do you need a hole?