PostmarketOS to actually own your phone.
If I understand correctly, this thing turns your phone into a computer. But I need a phone…
Technically, every smartphone is a computer. Sorry if you thought you bought a phone. :)
The difference is that this is a full fledged linux operating system instead of the proprietary crap that comes with ios and android.
The downside at this point is that it’s not in end user stadium but a lot of folks are working on making that a reality. If you consider yourself a tinkerer, chances are you might be able to test it, maybe on a non daily driver phone if you have an old one, especially if its out of support.
a phone needs to be able to make calls and send or receive sms…
I agree but then you shouldnt be talking about operating systems because what you need is an old nokia phone.
Obviously postmarketOS can do that too. But it can also do what a computer does.
How does this compare to lineageOS or GrapheneOS?
LineageOS is very stable and usable as a daily driver, meanwhile PMOS struggles to deliver basic functionalities like calling and sending SMS.
LineageOS has a bigger community and supports more mainstream devices, where PMOS primarily focus on PINE64 and Purism.
I think you missed the detail that lineageOS and grapheneOS are based on AOSP and PMOS is based on mainline Linux.
Wow that sounds like so much fun.
/S
For real, people should put disclaimers when recommending software like this. “I really like their vision, but installer beware! It is not ready for noobs! Also calling and texting just doesn’t work! Lol good luck!”
Lineage and Graphene are based on android and bear the danger of support loss when google drops support.
PostmarketOS is actual Linux (alpine is the base to be exact).
Graphene definitely is a lot more advanced since it uses all the proprietary blobs of android. There is no use in comparing the two. Its like comparing lemmy and reddit in terms of technical finesse.
It works very well for some apps already but it is highly dependent on people supporting either financially or through contributions (code, issues, translations, documentation, tutorials).
Newbie here, can this be installed on any phone?
Not any phone to be totally honest but many and growing.
Check here to see the devices that are supported.
But disclaimer: its a foss project so it wont ever be perfect and if you like the project, consider contributing and help solving issues instead of judging because that doesnt help anyone.
List of supported devices: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
It can be installed on several phones… Probably not yours though.
I can’t unlock my bootloader :*(
Sad face. What phone do you have?
The best phone ever made and probably my last phone. Motorola moto z3. 60 of them plus a large pile of spare parts
Jeeeez. Thats interesting! Why is iz the best phone ever made in your opinion? Maybe I need it too?
Edit: I checked. A large quantity of motorola phones seems not to be unlockable and it has android installed. So is it out of support then or how are you managing to not run around with your data for grabs?
#0 kick stand #1 if you do the chop motion, the led turns on #2 twist motion turns on the camera #3 large speaker with extra battery magnetically attaches to the back, it contains the kick stand. It is really really good for music #3.5 nice fast responsive side fingerprint reader. Not that slow under screen crap #3.6 no holepunch in the screen #4 old OS doesn’t contain post 2019 three letter agency spyware #4.5 240fps 720p camera actually rules #4.6 can record in 4k pretty good #5 nice oled, 4gb ram is enough,cpu is enough, has microsd for unlimited storage, battery lasts a day, new battery is 7$, new screen is 55$, new glass is 5$ #6 cost 30$ so I bought 60x #6.9 magnetic mod 360 camera is excellent, polaroid printer is good, switch-style gamepad is excellent, car dock is excellent #7 I will eventually crack security and be able to finally do general purpose computing
Downsides verizon took a shit in the firmware No headphone jack, curse steve jobs’ ghost
As for network, it is behind NAT so it can’t be accessed directly. And then I don’t run viruses on it. So security wise I’m bullet proof.
Thats pretty imprewsive. Thanks for elaborating. :)
So security wise I’m bullet proof.
As long as you don’t visit shady websites…
That’s why I have a moonlight client that remotes into an isolated immutable linux VM. And I’m working on a vanilla android VM so I coild basically do any android thing but in a high security, off device sandbox.
My phone basically is just a wireless touchscreen with kick ass speakers and a slow mo camera
GrapheneOS!
I’d love to use it especially since Android Auto is working on it, too. The only thing holding me back is not being able to pay with my phone. I’m currently only having my phone and keys with me. So it’s extra convenient to not have to take my wallet with me.
But to be fair the devs can’t make anything against that restriction as of now. I still wish there would be some way to be able to pay contactless using your card with GrapheneOS.
I’m in the exact same boat. If someone figures out how to get tap-to-pay working on graphene, I’ll be daily driving it so fast.
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Love me some Jitsi. The app, and website, make it easy to just start a secure, anonymous call with pals. No weird AI models running in the background like Teams or Zoom.
Lemmy
Never heard of it…
IPFS - An uncensorable distributed file sharing technology which is wonderful for file or site hosting
Uncensorable? Seriously doubt it.
Resilient to censoring? Believable.
Recently they officially added a module to censor stuff on an individual instance basis…
Can I update Fedora without it breaking? Also… KDE? GNOME is a stable, polished and professional DE, none of which KDE is.
Do you just go around looking for KDE users to argue with?
No, I shit on their delusion when they claim KDE is the best and most stable DE. It is like saying the second to finish the race has finished first, which is illogical.
…So you do go around looking for KDE users to argue with. Sounds like fun.
If I were to do that, KDE would personally manifest physically and apologise for its existence. I do not do that yet.
The fact that the company Valve went with KDE instead of GNOME for there popular linux device seems to indicate that it is at least stable. I could get some user testomonies on /c/Linux about KDE if you want?
Valve went with KDE not because it is stable, but because user interface can be customised with it catering to gamers. GNOME is more rigid and stable. The exact same reason goes for Arch, quickest firmware and kernel updates to leverage maximum performance per watt and to buy maximum time for optimisation. Arch is not known for stability in the way Debian/Ubuntu LTS are known.
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yunohost it’s basically an os that easily lets you selfhost, by having an extremely big amount of selfhosted services packaged with scripts that autonatically set everything up and all of that trough a clear and modern web interface.
For all note taking, I enjoy ZimWiki.
How is it compared to other note taking software such as Logseq or Joplin (if you ever tried them too)?
A lot simpler, IMO. That said, I’m still mainly using plain markdown.
Obsidian?
That one isn’t Open-Source, unfortunately. Plain old MD works well, if but quite as fancy as Obsidian.
xpra: it is like tmux but for X windows (works on wayland), but it can do much more than that. You can seamlessly run GUI programs from a container or VM on your main desktop while still sandboxing their X capabilities, forward windows from Windows desktops, and it has efficient encoding so it is usable over poor connections as well.
LocalSend, a cross platform alternative to airdrop and nearby share.
My family uses it for almost all of our filesharing. IPhone to android, iPhone to windows PC, android to macbook, etc. Its works really, really well.
I love this. Its great. I use this and syncthing if I want to move files across.
Yeah I just found that diamond!
Just tried it - so simple, so good. Thanks for posting about this!
thank you for this recommendation! i hope i can convince my friends to start using it
Just picked this up based on the up votes here, and I’m already a fan. Seems like it does what you want and nothing else, which is perfect.
Shutter encoder, it has a ton of useful tools built in for quick video conversion, compression, trimming, etc, and it works very well for batch encoding of a lot of different video files
Affine, its a surprisingly feature rich notes app (open source but all cloud features are currently paid)
KopiaUI, an easy to use automatic backup program
Darktable Great digital photography RAW editor. Alternative to Adobe Lightroom.
Typst, Nix, Git, Blender
You think Git and Blender are unknown?
Being unknown was not a premise in the question.
Video Downloader. https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader
Strips all junk off any video url so you have the mp4 or mkv.
Use this to add youtube videos/playlists to jellyfin. Doesn’t have to be youtube. Downloads any videos from a link.
Can also save audio only from video links if you want to.
It’s great for porn!
Source: Twenty years of experience
how does it compare to yt-dlp?
it’s a GUI for yt-dlp
for a quick web based downloader I use https://cobalt.tools/
And if you find yourself needing a less simple but more powerful tool for this:
Freetube also has a handy download feature
i’ve been using yt-dlp for youtube videos for ages (supports about a million others as well)
Supports metadata nicely which is beneficial, obviously.
TrailSense, an easy to use, comprehensive wilderness tool.
The goals of the developer are fun to consider:
Goals
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Trail Sense must not use the Internet in any way, as I want the entire app usable when there is no Internet connection
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Features must provide some benefits to people using the app while hiking, in a survival situation, etc.
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Features should make use of the sensors on a phone rather than relying on stored information such as guides
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Features must be based on peer-reviewed science or be verified against real world data
Likewise, the features being developed under those goals are great for getting outside:
Features
- Designed for hiking, backpacking, camping, and geocaching
- Place beacons and navigate to them
- Follow paths
- Retrace your steps with backtrack
- Use a photo as a map
- Plan what to pack
- Be alerted before the sun sets
- Predict the weather
- Use your phone as a flashlight
Downloaded it and I love it!
How does the metal detector work? I’ve never heard of a phone being able to do that.
It uses the magnetic field sensor on the phone (compass). It can only detect magnetically active metals and also kinda weakly, but it’s quite fun!
Trailsense is amazing
Can’t wait to take a picture of a trailhead map and try tracking myself on it.
It works pretty well! I found in my one quick test that a pair of known points on a diagonal offer the best tracking. Definitely need to play with that feature again.
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KDEConnect - I use it on Windows and android phone. Very nice when you get security codes or links on phone, want to send files or when I want to control audio|video and I watch from the couch.
in general: Freedroid nearly always has a os, more feature rich and performant alternative
For those wondering it is a linux-first software, and works better on there
It’s a good idea for note taking.
what is?
I use Arch btw. 😅 (well, actually I don’t any more, but this had to be here)
not really.
