And I am bound and determined that my next phone will be running Nura. I’m already looking up replacement apps and teaching myself to use command line Monero wallets in case there is no graphical wallet available for it by the time I switch.
For me, the camera is totally unimportant other than being able to scan QR codes and do pinch to zoom so that I can read print because of me being legally blind. But as far as pictures go, I basically never use the camera.
Pretty much as long as it can scan QR codes, I’m okay with it.
Yeah, true. I fully intend for my next phone to be running Nura, no matter how much shit I have to put up with. I do need the basic functions of a phone to work, though. Speakers, microphones, call, text, mobile data, and Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. I figure the touchscreen is a given.
I am and I’m not at the same time because the FP5 isn’t super easy to get in the US. The FP6 plus is the first one that’s actually sold here.
I think this is really good. I personally am not against the use of AI, especially the open-weight or open-source models, preferably, when there’s a human directing the AI and checking what it does to make sure that it’s actually sane, because if a human makes a mistake at 3am, the AI can catch it, and if the AI makes a stupid mistake, there’s a human around to catch it.
Just as an example, I asked one of the AI models to run a security audit on the Monero Wallet app I like to use on Android, and within about 30 seconds, it pointed out a critical vulnerability that had been unaddressed, and I confirmed manually that it actually existed and that it wasn’t being hallucinated, and when I did find out that it was actually true I told the developer in private about it, and it has now been fixed.
The other thing is that on Android, only one app needs to remain open at all times in order to receive push notifications. In default, Google Android, that would be Google Play Services. But on open source systems, that can be some sort of unified push thing like NTFY.
That way you’re not keeping like 10 applications open checking for their own notifications over and over again. You’re only keeping one application open and when that receives a notification for whatever app, that app gets triggered to wake up and check for it.
Another thing is that Android uses something they call Doze Mode, where, if your phone is locked and is not in motion at all, as detected by the accelerometer, it will progressively get longer and longer between checks for new content in order to save the battery.
It uses the accelerometer because, for example, if you put your phone on your bed when you go to sleep, your movements during the night will still trigger some slight motion in the accelerometer, which would keep the device more active than it otherwise would be.
Use websites whenever possible instead of apps. And try your best to use FOSS apps from places like FDroid as much as possible.
Yes, anything without Google spy services, aka play services, will be fine.
And even if you have Google spy services installed on graphene, it is in user mode, not admin mode, so it can’t control that.
LineageOS for me
Shit like this is why I run lineage OS and there’s a very good chance that my next phone is going to be running post-market OS and not Android at all.
I’ve been using Lineage with no Google Play services for years, so unless the app developers decide to stop updating their apps, I’ll be alright. But in the future, I fully intend to switch to post-market OS when I purchase my next phone.
Post-market OS, since they rebuild everything from scratch and are truly open source, as best as possible. Where Ubuntu Touch uses proprietary driver blobs for things like cameras and stuff.
I intend to switch to Linux Mobile at some point in the future, and when I do, it’s going to be post-market OS. I’ve already made that decision.
Its Nura at nura.eco