1 week using a Linux Phone | Jolla C2 Community Phone with Sailfish OS
1 week using a Linux Phone | Jolla C2 Community Phone with Sailfish OS
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TL;DW?
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- If you know anything of meego, you'll be at home.
- necessary apps available
- android apps available otherwise via aurora
- interface is more spartan but nice to use compared to android
- accessibility features lacking
- if you're used to custom Roms you'll probably be fine but out of your depth if not
- work in progress but could daily drive
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I'd like to get on board but until jolla/sailfish has a free (as in beer) community version that I can put on my cheap phone, I really don't care a bit for it. available for some xperia models and in a limited version, I mean come on. let it loose and reap the fruits of enthusiastic and unpaid volunteer work, what's the holdup?
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But why only as beer? Doesn't it seem like a repetition of the Android fiasco if it's not fully open source?
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that's kinda implied, without that premise it shouldn't even be considered. i'm just saying that this hurdle in the form of a paid licence for just taking a look at the thing is terminally off-putting.
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Great vid, but did the reviewer really have to rub the "European" aspect of it throughout? smh...
Anyways, she mentions that there's the option of using Aurora Store + F-Droid, I wonder if govt. apps that are basically required for day-to-day services (e.g. Absher, Sehaty) would work with or without microG.. I might try and find out for science, once I have the means to do so :).
Otherwise, compartmentalizing by having two phones, one Android for the govt apps and one Linux, would basically be meta until something changes.
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did the reviewer really have to rub the “European” aspect of it throughout?
It's become a very important feature for a lot of people who can't stand fascism, and a selling point for non-US companies.
If you want this to change, kick the orange utan out of the White House, and maybe in 10 to 15 years, the rest of the world will get over the butthurt.
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I agree, though I wouldn't call it "butthurt" so much as "justified concern".
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"Buy European" / "Use European" is a deeply unserious and reactionary mantra that assumes software and hardware manufactured and designed in Europe is inherently the "safest" and "most secure". Or if not, then "safer" than their AmeriKKKan or their Chinese counterpart. Or if it is not "safe" at all then it is assumed it is "less unsafe".
It's reactionary, because it reinforces ideals for European nationalism and only ever came up so far when Trump got elected. It also necessarily espouses the Great Man Theory because of that, which you seem to entertain there.
If Europe or European companies were serious about security and privacy, they would do well to decouple from GAFAM. The reality is that European institutions all use Microsoft or Amazon to host their websites, use Google or Microsoft for their office suite software (save for a few and far between insignificant instances of LibreOffice use), use Instagram/Facebook/Twitter/etc.. for public communication, as well as promotional and marketing purposes, and so on.
If the EU had any skin or teeth, they would actually enforce their GDPR regulations and not allow any GAFAM in Europe. Instead, they are essentially allowed to continue to operate, the "fees" GAFAM pay for violations of GDPR rules are basically only chump change and can be made back within hours.
And finally, the EU routinely invests in spyware to be used within and outside their borders. It's no surprise it deservedly doesn't get the traction Europeans want.
The real solution, which correctly transcends any and all borders, involves advocating for Free/Libre Open Source Software and Hardware. It shouldn't be hard to understand why.
Sources:
- EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers
- The EU Funds Surveillance Around the World: Here's What Must be Done About it
- AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare
- Investigation of the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware
- 20 biggest GDPR fines so far [2024] (the fines in question are negligible, and only serve to line the pockets of the rich)
- Female health apps aren’t doing enough to protect sensitive data, study says
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I'm not interesting in a Linux phone but always on the lookout for another Youtuber to follow. Thanks for posting.
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Yes, I get the contradiction of posting a video hosted on Youtube. But I'm not going to make perfection be the enemy of good.
I absolutely get her position. Where is she going to preach Linux? Peertube? Which is full of Linux nerds? Got a go to where the place isn't full of Linux nerds
It's fine, no sweat, there are solutions for viewers/lurkers:
Browser:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/
Android:
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
Sadly Invidious instances always have problems because Google keeps making breaking changes to how videos are fetched, intentionally or unintentionally.
I maintain my own private invidious instance and that motherfucker has to be rebooted every single day istg
I personally use PipePipe (https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe) because it has SponsorBlock
Dude thanks for this, this is pretty awsome
Why a video instead of a text post? I watched about a minute and the video is really annoying.
Because it includes demonstration of the OS.