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Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
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That'd be nice, but Linux on phones is still a pipe dream.
I saw there is pine phone that is supposed to have Linux or it doesn't? Didn't look much into it but was thinking about trying it out.
I have a pine phone - they're super neat because linux on a phone! but... not really usable yet. Not getting texts, random bugs (they fixed the one where you could only receive calls, not make them, but that took a year or more), incredibly laggy UI even just trying to navigate,the battery life is abysmal, the battery management hardware is lacking and the software is even worse, the UIs that exist are poorly supported, basic apps are decently represented but anything not built for mobile is going to be godawful to get working (esp. through something like waydroid), the UI stabbed my puppy, the devices are so underpowered you're gonna be unable to do things like have two apps open at once or have a video playing in one tab while trying to navigate in another...
The pro phone has supposedly improved the hardware issues, but it's new and niche enough that I haven't seen much of a consens emerge (or hardly any in depth testing at all, really). Fairphone is much more usuable, still not without it's glitches but much better than the pinephones.
It's great that smart people are working on this, but I don't think we can expect hobbyists to make a useful OSS implementation of smartphones. Especially since there is so much dependence on the hardware. We either need a company that can throw some weight behind it, or just straight up governments that value it (e.g. from a sovereignty point of view).