You’re forgetting the south united states, Australia.

Lots and lots of emotional support trucks here.

Mainstream news are not saying anything about this. It will take probably another 100.000 dead for that to be a failure.

But look at the 20 “kidnapped” war criminals going back to their families. Doesn’t that warm your heart? That’s a success to the news.

Seems similar to how it used to be many years ago. I don’t like gestures in any software, but I remember not disliking it that much with Sailfish.

How is the camera, GPS and general power of the phone? It seems very low budget, specially for the price. But I understand we have to pay extra for the freedom. I just worry if it’s really manageable for nowadays. It seems as bad as my very old Xperia I tried with Sailfish.

I would probably get one of the newer compatible Xperias instead. But it would be better getting something directly from them.

Yeah, I don’t know. I know that there are softwares specific for invoicing but I’ve never used one, nor did I use to send too many invoices. Most of the time I was an employee, doing some other freelances, so it wasn’t too much to keep track.

I used Inkscape because I was more used to it, working with graphics most of my life. LibreOffice is probably easier. But I don’t know how that’s supposed to be done with proprietary softwares either.

Hopefully someone with more experience on this can help him.

What software do you use?

I worked with 3D for decades and Blender replaced almost everything. The performance is actually better on Linux. I personally use Linux mint, but regarding software it barely matters what distro you use nowadays.

But support, compatibility, ease of use can vary a lot. I haven’t used another distro for many years so I can’t say much.

If you rely on autodesk and adobe stuff you will probably suffer. But personally I would say it’s deserved because there are not a lot of companies more evil than them. The sooner you start trying alternatives the better.

Invoicing I just used inkscape but it’s not great. Be prepared to make some sacrifices, but it’s all worthy to get rid of microsoft.

Maybe not the phone, but the system I think they do. And the Xperia is a better option to install it anyway.

I’m in Australia and had no trouble buying it and installing on an old Xperia.

And camera and GPS. If it’s just voice and text we could use a dumb phone.

And then they could bundle with matrix and become common place. Like apple users think face chat (or whatever the name) is the name for video call, since it’s part of the phone and they never used anything else.

But that’s kind of day dreaming…

That’s a good point. But until it becomes like desktop Linux they will need money, lots of it. Without it it won’t be an option for people, rich or poor.

But I can’t imagine a company, no matter how nice, that will lower the prices once it doesn’t need it anymore. So yeah, you raise a good issue. I don’t know the solution. Your suggestion is a good one, though unlikely to work for the same reason. Most people are not that nice.

Still… that’s bad…

Better than nothing, but bad.

But if it’s the only viable alternative, I would still invest on them. Idealism might just result in us having nothing.

Yeah, the first one is the most important. The second is awesome, but personally I would say being usable as a phone is maybe as important as being open source, if the options are having a fully open source software, but not usable, or mostly open source but usable as a phone.

Though I’m kind of not sure. It kind of really needed to be both; usable and fully open source…

1- being open source. Yeah that’s required. I have to check on that. They were open source last I checked.

2- free as in freedom, not free beer. Like I said before, if Linux relied only on donations of its users it would have never turned into what it is. It was company investements.

How can a project like Sailfish get the support it needs when even Microsoft failed, that’s a big question. But I doubt it will be with donations. I really don’t know, but I’m sure it will need a lot of money.

And as far as I know the alternatives are not really usable. So until/if they are, then they are not comparable to Android.

Maybe that’s what I missed. Isn’t it open source anymore?

That would be really bad.

they contracted with the AFP to run the first node of the server and process the data. (Australian law does not provide the same protections as U.S. law for its citizens.)

Thanks for that link. I didn’t know that. We are below the US in privacy laws! Is there any first world country worst than Australia?

They said all users were criminals, but who knows what they are calling a crime, specially with the retarded laws down here…

It shows what I suspected, that Australian software and servers must be avoided even more than Americans.

You should add some sources to your claim.

https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/galaxy-a-series/how-do-i-get-rid-of-appcloud/td-p/7918282

Even if they are not israeli that’s unacceptable. Luckily I have no Samsung phone newer than 2021. But after 10 years using Samsung, I won’t get any more ever. This is just one of many evil issues.

Such a shame. The best phones in my opinion if you exclude the evil stuff. But there’s just too much of it and getting worse every year.

I guess I committed a crime. Sorry, I never meant to say all of them are worth the same. Otherwise all those targeted groups could go and invade a country and call it their own, and make atomic bombs and attack anyone they don’t like.

That would destroy civilization. Only a few chosen people should have their excuse to do that legally protected.

Sarcasm warning.

Is it illegal to question the murder of gays, Russians, etc or just the jews?

I always wondered that.

Regarding play services, Samsung won’t brick my phone like Google did with FRP garbage. Samsung is evil but they have miles to go to reach Google level. Plus I have a firewall which minimizes the issue a little. I’m not happy with it, but I can’t install a custom rom… I’m so unhappy that it’s why I bought the pixel 5 to put graphene on it.

And yeah, pixel 5 only have older graphene, so it may be the reason why. But the newer pixels are even worse for me, so it’s not an option. Not that I would give a pixel another try anymore.

The other thing is SD card, which Google always hated because they want to sell cloud garbage.

Either way I hope to get completely rid of Google influence, and a Linux phone is the answer. I had a sailfish xperia long ago but it didn’t work very well.

A Linux phone with Samsung hardware and their level of software without evil would be heaven. But that’s just dreaming…

I think we have very different needs.

I don’t even have google play nor would I want it. I disable it on phones I can’t remove. I never noticed graphene being slow. Google wallet is another thing I wouldn’t want even if they pay me a lot. It’s a plus for graphene (or any custom rom).

My issues are that I might have been spoiled by samsung. Just swipe and slide to change brightness (I do it all the time and it’s a bunch of clicks on graphene), enable bluetooth with 1 click and automatically connect and even with screen locked (not a big deal since the s10 has a headphone jack, but a massive issues on a phone that killed it, and even then the s10 works better), some other things that don’t work without unlocking and the s10 does (I never noticed the notifications thing since I barely use it), wi-fi bundled in the “internet” option together with mobile data (whose idea was this?) requiring extra clicks, and other things.

It may be stock AOSP issues, which I don’t know why people praise it (like when samsung puts their apps they call it bloatware, but a phone with only all sorts of google garbage people are happy with). Like the obnoxious google search on home screen that you can’t remove it unless you change the launcher altogether.

And then the usb-c dongle, which is a “solution” to a problem that didn’t exist, and the ones I tried didn’t work very well, plus not being able to charge while talking (another dongle?), plus having to carry that thing around.

But I’m barking at the clouds. Since apple “invented” the handicapped phone, the world moved on. That’s why I’m holding on to the s10 for as long as I can. It’s the last phone that has the minimum requirements I see on a phone.

But just to be clear, I don’t hate graphene. It has its place and I’m happy for those who make it. It’s just not a great experience for me.

What I hate is the pixel. That’s what I regret buying. And graphene only works on pixel, so it’s a good thing for me that I won’t miss it. It would be sad if it was a rom I love on a phone I hate.

Ah, and to be clear, I also hate samsung. But I love the s10. If not for the spyware, the lack of support for custom roms, I would really like their phones and software. But they have to be evil and copy apple and google where they can…

I don’t know if you should buy the Motorola, but don’t buy a pixel if you think you might ever care about lack of headphone jack and external storage. I thought I could live with it, but I went back to the galaxy s10 and I’m holding on to it until it can’t make calls anymore. It’s sooo much better! No more bluetooth annoyances and all the extra storage I want for a fraction of the price.

Also I personally dislike graphene, which is on my pixel5 (the one I replaced with the s10). The only thing I really like is how it asks if you want to allow network when you install an app. But everything takes so many more clicks than it should… And the exaggerated concern with security makes everything even worse. It’s probably great if you are Snowden, but for almost everyone else it’s too many sacrifices to make with no reward.

But absolutely don’t buy brand new, unless you support google for everything they are doing and you want to send them a message that they are doing a great job. My pixel5 is in great condition and basically brand new, like all other second hand phones I bought (including the s10).

In summary: I would have bought something else today instead of the pixel 5 (I would have tried something with good Lineage support, probably a Motorola).

Problem being I don’t know how that would work, especially since banks would probably hate freedom respecting systems.

Yeah, that’s the thing, I don’t think it’s possible without becoming as evil as the alternative. If it is, I’m all for it. But my freedom comes first.

Australia will lose cash over time. All first world countries will. You can’t stop “progress”. It’s just a matter of how long, and then how long until you are not a citizen without Google play on your phone. Or considered disabled, which is already happening.