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  • I used PostMarketOS on a OP6T for a week. Here's what I know.

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  • In carry, it's a bit ridiculous.

    In practice... I've got something down. Last night I installed a local ntfy server and linked sms/mms notifications from my Android to it, then linked the OP6T to the ntfy server. Now I know when I get an SMS on my SIM card. I intend to do the same for calls.

    I need to go bug someone on Postmarket's team to throw KDEconnect in the repository. That would make this chef's kiss.

    Now I don't need to remove the Android from my pocket unless it's to run music in my car. Luckily enough, my Pixel Buds love my OP6T but my 2014 car thinks it's a headset. You gotta love the bad-bluetooth years, and no AUX so I can't pair to a dongle, either. It's FM transmitter, tear my dash apart and get Dexter's Lab with it, or the Android.

    Ubuntu Touch is also something of a curiosity for me for one reason, it has somewhat of a virtualization layer for some of the devices on the phone to run on the Android drivers or somesuch magic. Apparently UT has the camera and lots of other buggy things working, but it hasn't been updated on the 6T since last year.

  • I used PostMarketOS on a OP6T for a week. Here's what I know.

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  • It's all about APN settings if your phone is fully supported. Also, as a rule of thumb, make sure you're on the latest of the latest firmware you could be before your phone stopped being supported officially before flashing LineageOS so you have the latest firmware for your radio, screen, camera, etc. But as far as that goes, at least on custom Android roms such as Lineage is, it's about getting those APN settings perfect. I've used a Oneplus 7 Pro since release on Lineage and then CRDroid and I'm on Tello. I couldn't recieve messages at first until I got it resolved. The OP6T on Linux won't be capable whether I can receive calls or not, so... as far as solving my networking issue is concerned, it's kind of moot until the speaker issue is fixed.

  • I used PostMarketOS on a OP6T for a week. Here's what I know.

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  • I'm in the side that we are in a transition period in the open technology world. Most of us are at home on a Linux laptop and software-wise, it is one. For me? This works. I can use this as my actual phone's 'proxy', and it's my goal to puppet it into any function I don't currently have, within reason.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • the collaborative world works off of demand. Pocket laptops and linux phones have been a nice distraction for long enough. They may soon become more of a saving grace.

    I'm not saying you'll be able to run Spyware Simulator 2000 on PostmarketOS. I'm more saying that any secondary device you use for foss software will be more focused upon as an actual decent alternative for getting work done without being spied on by capitalist nazis.

    These devices can run web browsers. That's 80% of your needs already taken care of and we haven't even left Firefox.

    CARRY TWO PHONES??!!

    What will the neighbors think!?

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • I readily await the visibility and interest this will give mobile linux development.

  • RFK Jr continues to make dubious health claims as CDC roils under his leadership

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  • I used to think he was just a broken-clock idiot with good intentions, now I think he's insane and has no idea wtf he wants or is doing.

  • U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept'

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  • Bribing people with technologies that do nothing. Since cost and worth aren't really quantifiable with some of these technologies, all of these actions might as well be seen as just shallow bribes and favors to those in power.

  • The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ | A partnership between xAI & the US government fell apart earlier this summer. Then the White House apparently got involved

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  • spying on them sounds likely to me.

    Grok is going to be a fascist taddletale for everything done on a computer or phone.

  • Trump executive order declares that NASA & other agencies are now primarily intelligence agencies and nullifies their collective bargaining power.

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  • Download wikipedia, store water, canned food, rice and beans. Get a capable pistol and some ammo.

    buckle up, buttercup

  • Trump executive order declares that NASA & other agencies are now primarily intelligence agencies and nullifies their collective bargaining power.

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  • It was there before he showed up.

  • The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ | A partnership between xAI & the US government fell apart earlier this summer. Then the White House apparently got involved

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  • Roll Out Grok ASAP

    Ok, LLMs aren't really my bread and butter, but what exactly would it be rolled out to, and to do what?

    Is it all just smoke and mirrors to cut Musk a check?

  • Cracker Barrel quietly removes DEI and Pride pages from its website after logo upheaval

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  • I loathe Cracker Barrel.

    Why? I'm a Southerner that knows Southern food, knows what a good, family resturant is, or in some town's cases, was, and I blame them for the systematic deletion of small family restaurants across the South.

    Make the food good enough and intice people with fake antiques and candy and you too can run everyone out of business with tacky crap in place of anything anyone would consider soul.

    Ugh, fuck them. So tacky, fake and greedy. I feel wrong being in one, like oil and water.

  • 0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now

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  • I'm glad I voted for Harris and I'm not complicit in shipping someone's family member to a concentration camp or helping a pedophile get elected.

    Some would argue this as a bad move, but considering Gaza will be a parking lot by December anyway, congrats, benchwarmers. You played yourselves.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • <insert number of Mastodon instances>

    * 10,000

    Some lawyer on Capitol Hill: "Hmm..."

    Not if, when.

    Who knows, the same demand may be given of certain other federated social media sites in a few months.

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • Don't feel pressured by me. If you feel pressured yourself, it may be a form of projected guilt.

    If you don't find privacy and security important enough to give up your connectivity or usability, that's perfectly fine. I don't have to live with it.

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • You always have a choice. You can ditch your morals entirely, give up, be subservient to the capitalists and give your identity over fully to the system like the good little consumer slave you are and enjoy your normie life looking at your normie phone and toss us all out as tinfoil-hatted weirdos who almost convinced you to make your life worse for the sake of self-sufficiency, independence and privacy.

    No one in the real world will ever know, care, or judge you. Only you will know that you gave up, that every location you exist in is known about by someone behind a monitor being overseen by fascists. Every day! You can live with that, right? That's a small thing to give up in the grand scheme of things, isn't it? At least Youtube loaded today, right? It's all worth it, lol.

    Just remember to type "thanks" in google keyboard whenever you want them to know you appreciate them. They log it.

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  • There is an interesting new breed of flip phones that can be tethered to for internet access. I could imagine a flip-phone + laptop setup being perfect for a lot of users here.

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • I'm going to try all of them. I've always wanted to just go to ebay, buy a 6T and try some of these operating systems. It's the target phone for about half of them. What interests me the most is Plasma Mobile on PostmarketOS. It looks slick and not too dissimilar from Android.

    Linux on mobile is very model specific. The 6T isn't even perfectly supported by anything, it's just supported enough to be functional.

    Why the 6T? Just the right mix of hardware that released with the right mix of software to make it ideal. the Pixel 3 also had a lot of Linux compatibility.

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  • This sucks for the average person but, well, everything tends to. If you don't look for avenues around literally everything "default", you're being scammed. They don't, so they will be.

    I do, so I'll be carrying a Oneplus 6T and slapping a mobile Linux OS on it for my needs.

    that's not usable!

    For you.