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.
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.
No reason you can’t just get one from Murena or Clove! (Sent from the USA via my Murena Fairphone 6 😏)
There already is! I had a Furi Labs FLX1 for a while and it was able to run Android apps surprisingly via Andromeda (their fork of Waydroid).
The FLX1 had wireless charging. And a headphone jack. And a replaceable battery… 😔
I’ve been a fan of djent since Chaosphere
Wasn’t expecting to see this here, but same! I got into Meshuggah shortly after Chaosphere came out, and they’re my favorite band of all time over 25 years later.
You can confirm a Framework 13 with an Intel Ultra 7 155h (passmark score of over 21k) with 32GB Ram and 1TB of storage for under $1500.
Ahh cool, thanks! Yeah, that’s what I had done for my initial release, so maybe I’ll just leave it as it is.
Yeah, that’s what I was wondering about. Based on some initial research I did, I went with MPL-2.0. However, I get the impression that non-copyleft licenses are typically frowned upon in the FOSS community, so I wanted to see if there was a better option.
Thank you very much! That’s very helpful.
What’s MOL? (Or did you mean MPL?)
A few different places (most of which I’m sorry to say I don’t remember), but here’s a notable one.
And a Fairphone
Cries in American 🥺
Have you updated Qutebrowser recently? It was running a pretty ancient version of Chromium under the hood before the 3.0 release (2 weeks ago), but it’s up-to-date now.
Qutebrowser has great, sensible defaults with no telemetry. 😊
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.