Yes.
I have some old phones that I play with when I have time. I find that /e/ is pretty good, but I'm a little bit iffy on the company atm.
So now I'm trying to build postmarketOS for my Galaxy S9, which is a fun and frustrating journey.
I do want to try Graphene, but I don't have a Pixel and really don't want to buy more phones when I have multiple that works.
Also I need certain apps for work so I can't completely rid myself of Google and Microsoft. At times I have had two phones in active use, but I find myself defaulting to work phone since I'm required to have it on me for most of the day anyway.
Totally agree! On the other hand I have this whole universe of albums to learn to appreciate now!
I'm also getting away from traditional social media, the 24-hour news cycle, porn etc and I find that just sitting down and listen to music and let my mind wander to be an amazing experience. Would recommend to literally anyone
I work in the hosting business. We have servers and create VMs and have backups. The customer can have as much control of the VM as they chose including locking us out. (They take on the risk as well if course.)
We have pretty decent margins on hosting and offer to help out with configuration and such for billable hours and I often feel like what we charge are ridiculous.
Yet we have potential customers demanding to see our hidden fees (we have none) and some explanation of how we can be so cheap. Some simply refuse to believe our prices when compared to the giant clouds.
I've found a lot of the same as you, listening to albums changed me for the better.
Just recently I bought the Horizon Forbidden West sound track on Qobuz at a sale, paid less than 1 Euro per hour. Its weird, I don't pay attention to the music while playing the game, but listening to the soundtrack almost take me into that world.
This is why connections still are everything in the job market. That was true before as well of course, for the same basic reason, it allows employers and would be employees to just skip all this BS.
It's awesome that you don't have to remember what software you're using underneath. I looked into it before I installed it, but I'd have to check which one I went with. I also have no idea what graphics card I'm using, which headset I'm using, what brand of eyeglass cleaner I'm using etc. I looked into it at the time, made a choice and promptly forgot about why and filled my brain with other things.
If I remembered which database I was running it means that I'd have enough problems with it that I'd look at it a lot.
They're slow and clunky as fuck for starters. Cellular is very spotty.
Do you have a good alternative I can look into? I really, really, really want them to work. The only usable Linux phone I've seen is Jolla, but I'd much rather have Mobian or Arch on mobile or some other fully FLOSS alternative
This is so true, whenever a see something that's obviously never been touched by the design department and is mostly just text I feel safe, secure and trust it by default.
Anything with flashy graphics is doubt before they prove themselves trustworthy.
Which phone did you find where these are the only problem you encountered? I don't care about any of these things and haven't been finding any usable Linux phones.
Learning the form then forgetting the form is pretty normal in any discipline. First you learn how to do it, like how to punch, kick and block. Then you learn sequences and combinations. You learn these to perfection. When your body knows the moves you can start improvising and you need to forget the sequences and combinations in order to adapt.
Same goes for all art, applied science, most jobs, even social structures, economic models etc.
First you learn the basics, then you learn the complex rules, when you master then you can break the rules and improve upon it.
I just this month realized that I really really really miss the ability to set a status like "On vacation, will reply on [date].
On Facebook Messenger I can set a status for at most 24 hours, anything beyond that is obviously not necessary..
I wanted to put a message telling people I don't use it anymore and yo contact me on [phone number]
I thought so too, but over the years I have migrated so much of my life away from apps in order to see if it's possible and apart from games I find that with a browser and an email client I don't really need apps. Still use apps though, they are way more convenient.
Banking is tedious without apps, but works with browser and an MFA-dongle in my country.
I have the PinePhone Pro in a drawer somewhere. It's just a fun toy, not even remotely usable as a daily driver.
But I might have a look at it again and see how many tasks still remains before I could theoretically use Mobian as a daily driver.
Yes. I have some old phones that I play with when I have time. I find that /e/ is pretty good, but I'm a little bit iffy on the company atm. So now I'm trying to build postmarketOS for my Galaxy S9, which is a fun and frustrating journey.
I do want to try Graphene, but I don't have a Pixel and really don't want to buy more phones when I have multiple that works.
Also I need certain apps for work so I can't completely rid myself of Google and Microsoft. At times I have had two phones in active use, but I find myself defaulting to work phone since I'm required to have it on me for most of the day anyway.