Aargh.
You can be my neighbor, as long as you are at least 1.5 shouting distances away :D
I’m a introverted Finn, I can’t deal with roommates :–D
Yup. I’m actually planning on getting a second phone that will be my daily driver, one that I can just try out different things, like whatever Linux OS’s there are available etc. Then have another phone that I will do the banking stuff and whatnot.
So lately I’ve been playing through games that I wanted to play when I was a kid, but couldn’t. I’m currently in the year 1992. I think I’ll be okay for a few decades. Other people can send their ID’s to their 800€ gaming consoles. I’ll be using my OG xbox as a emulator and Nintendo can go suck my dick about it.
I’m seriously gonna buy a good set of solar panels, build a log cabin in the woods and just live there. I’d probably starve to death but I’m suicidal anyway so it would be a nice adventure before the final release.
If that was how ours worked, I would have driven my sisters mad with that sort of super power.
If the people who are infinitely more smart than me, would work for free a little bit harder and do a proper mobile Linux OS, what you are describing might be very easy to do.
I’ve sort of started to do something like this. I quit using streaming services, I re-downloaded a billion .mp3 files. I downloaded and converted all my Audible books and cancelled the service. I download podcasts instead of streaming them.
If I’m going on a trip, I’ll transfer a couple of audio books, some podcasts and a bunch of music to my phone. I keep about 5000 songs in the phone constantly, changing them every now and then as the feeling takes me. I use my phone like a old timey mp3 player and instead of carrying the local public trans schedule booklet, like I did 20 years ago, I now have the schedule website saved on my phone.
I still have internet access and connection on the phone but I try to avoid it as much as possible. But I don’t do silly extremes where I’m not “allowed” to use it at all. If I’m bored waiting for a doctor or something and I want to watch a youtube video, I watch a youtube video. But the strange thing is, once you think of the phone as a mp3 player, you sort of dont have the desire to use it as a instant entertainment machine. Some sort of switch snapped in my head when I did all that.
Anyway, sorry if this became incoherent, I’m trying to type this out before getting my afternoon coffee and I want the coffee more than I want to make sense.
Our internet worked differently. If I was connected and someone picked up the phone, the internet wouldn’t cut off but the phone would screech that internet sound. Then my mum would scream at me to disconnect so she can call Aunt Marja-Terttu. I’d of course protest, I was in the middle of a match or whatever, she’d had to wait 10 minutes! But no, she had to make the call NOW and the computer was paid by my parents anyway so I should do as I was told.
Ah, good times.
Linux breaks 5% threshold for the first time again?
Or is this a repost of the previous time?
I despise the dogged fanboyism of the android and iOS people
Same. Which is why I like to see Fairphone, Jolla and GrapheneOS etcetc mentioned as much as possible :)
Seems like iphone lovers are mighty upset at you.
Same. I remember how everything seemed amazing and the future was exciting, you never knew what the next big and amazing thing would be. Then the next big amazing thing turned out to be facebook, google, advertising and personal data harvesting and after that everything has been complete shit.
But thats why the internet revival thing, is a thing. Thats why the amount of IRC users have started to go up. Thats why more and more people are looking into self hosting things… I’m all for that sort of stuff.