Random Joe, or should I say… GNU/Joe
Retrospectively, wasn’t a lot of the space-exploration-based SciFi from the 50s 60s 70s serving the purpose of justifying massive government spendings in big rockets, mainly used to build ICBMs, to justify imperialist policies and the cold war?
were we (the scifi afficionados) the useful idiots of this missile race?
Image from https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 by Nina Paley
I use a PinePhone (non-pro) as a daily-driver for 4+ years now. Sure it runs well. Just depends by what you mean by “linux”. If you use firefox and KDE you’re gonna suffer and complain about battery life.
If you’re ready to work a bit to make it custom and very frugal (in my case: pmos + sxmo) and use mostly CLI and TUI applications, then you can get a lot from it. I use links -g for a majority of my browsing, tut for the fediverse, aerc, gomuks, etc. for communications. heck there is even a simplex CLI client.
It’s exciting, it’s customized and i find it 10x more interesting than #$%!ndroid. and i make my backups through rsync. but it’s for sure a bit of work…
would you remove the battery during those 20 years?
Simplex.chat is promising, with great privacy/anonymity concepts at its core:
As many people mentioned backups before, I would only add this: Maybe check -in your favourite search engine- if the very same model of computer that you use doesn’t have know quirks (hardware needing some tweaking, not being fully recognized, etc.) with gnu/linux, like for instance searching “$model linux” or “$model $distro” (with the distros you plan on trying, etc.
Also maybe if you connect only via Wifi, check that wifi chip for compatibility first, and maybe get as a backup a USB wifi dongle that is know to work on gnu/linux… juuuust in case ;)
… er… the only thing stopping an AmericaBad-with-a-gun is an AmericaGood-with-a-gun…?
Guitarix? https://guitarix.org/
…You wouldn’t download a car?!
same here.
my first switch from x to wayland was on the pinephone and that convinced me to make the big jump elsewhere. that feeling of snappiness you describe, from not having all the screen refreshed all the time i gues…?
check wayfire :)
I already have everything. I use Sway… :)
Your hemorrhoids are flaring up again eh?
The Secret of the Monkey Island
Sid Meier’s Civilization!
as said before: backup first. the rest afterwards…
wait… no alpine apk?! :)
do you think a company like cloudlare.com, that injects its javascript in between given site and you, will hesitate one second before transmitting its data with the FBI (or any other police), and help them tracking users down?
WARNING: contains some cloudflare.com
Let’s start mirroring and torrenting full ROMsets!