How I Made a Minimalist Dumb Phone With Free Software
www.howtogeek.com
Why crowdfund a limited smartphone when you can make your own?

✅ LineageOS
❎ Google Apps
✅ F-droid
✅ Antennapod
✅ Voice
✅ Fossify apps
✅ Kvaesitso launcher

I’m not gonna lie, this “dumb phone” is awkwardly close to how my daily driver has looked for the better part of a decade.

  • superkret@feddit.org
    7·
    5 hours ago

    I “made” a “dumb phone” like that too, using a normal Android, Universal Android Debloater, FDroid, Fossify and the Simple Launcher.

    For my next project, I’ll turn my laptop into a typewriter by disconnecting the WiFi.

    • haverholm@kbin.earthOP
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Sounds low effort! The real way of turning your laptop into a typewriter, of course, is to install Linux without a desktop environment and run an editor from command line /s

      At least the author of the article could be arsed flashing a custom ROM 😉

    • haverholm@kbin.earthOP
      3·
      6 hours ago

      I mean, it’s on HowToGeek, so I’ll generously think of it as onboarding another few people to custom ROMs…

    • haverholm@kbin.earthOP
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah, the honest title would be “I evicted Google and I can just use my phone like I want now”.

    • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Probably “dumb” in the sense it doesm’t actively spy on you. Which is a god-awful definition of dumb.

      Personally, I’d go with non-malicious, shortened to non-mal which basically loops back to “normal”.