cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39351554
Samtime tries out a Fairphone 6 running Ubuntu Touch and it seemed pretty fine. Noted issues were the second camera not working, GPS/Map app being a bit weird, and imo, the screen showing all the apps you have open is terrible. But with the reg app store and waydroid, I think it could be almost managable to use.
My mom is a battery life fiend though, so that part she won’t let go of. What’s your thoughts?
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Not fine. I have the same with PostmarketOS. No audio and really slow WiFi.
A shame Fairphone doesn’t have a headphone jack. IMO that contradicts the sustainability aspect of the phone
How is that?
Think Bluetooth earphone battery waste
They need funding. Some people, countries and unions have an increased interest in tech independence.
For anyone reading this, please consider donating to PostmarketOS or Mobian if you have the means, as it will help us escape the Android ecosystem which is getting more and more anti-user due to google controlling it.
The problem with PostmarketOS is that it only is stable on extremely old phones that sometimes aren’t even midrange.
It is certainly not usable for the average person in it’s current state, hence why I suggest donating to it to help with developing it.
With proper funding and full-time devs, it would be able to focus on adding proper support to more phones, or potentially partner with a manufacturer like GrapheneOS just did with Motorola to get first-class support on a smaller handful of devices.
Postmarket is our only long-term mobile option that will remain FLOSS and in the users best interest, we just have to support it and help build it up into something we can all use :)
No idea who this guy is, but that was a hilarious video. Heaps of little jabs to highlight some of the very real weirdness of it all, but a decent enough demo to show that it all does intact work.
All of his videos are like that.
The one that sticks with me is Apple Glarse, his renaming of their Glass UI design.
I’m not subscribed but I do watch his videos whenever I stumble on them and they’re pretty good. He takes the piss out of Apple and Microsoft equally and regularly dunks on Google as well. I don’t think he really centers on Linux very often, if at all, but whatev. Good watch, I recommend [not that my opinion is worth anything]
Promising