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I did a stint on Mint Mobile for 2 months while I was experimenting with jmp.chat, ported back to US Mobile on Verizon last week. As a bonus, Graphene got Verizon's visual voicemail working while I was away, still can't get T-Mobile's working without their crappy app.

There are huuuuuuge gaps in T-Mobile in the north woods, which honestly, I'm kind of ok with since I'm looking to start using my phone mostly through KDE Connect. But visual voicemail has been a sticking point for me for awhile. Satellite is interesting to be sure, but it's going to double my US Mobile bill at $10 for 2GB if I remember their pricing correctly. That's not a huge deal, but for something with very limited capabilities at the moment... eh. Also, fuck Elon Musk.

I'll see what happens with Graphene's phone, or if I give in and buy a Fairphone. I really want an SD card for music. I'm less than thrilled with DAPs, and might just get a Fairphone with a dongle running Lineage for that, while I continue using my Pixel 8 on Graphene as my phone for now. I'd love to merge the two, though.

Also considering an Xperia to run Sailfish, but I'd have to go back to I think an Xperia 10 OG version to get band 13 and Verizon support. That's a 6 year old phone, and only supports 512GB SD cards. Might actually be able to mount larger, especially in Sailfish, but... I'll see if I can get one cheap maybe.

Man, I really hope they're the manufacturing partner GrapheneOS is talking about, or they at least include Verizon support on future models. T-mobile just doesn't do it for me out in the middle of the forest.

I know, but it's looking more and more like there won't be an alternative for long. I'd rather have a consortium of interests united in moving a fork forward as the core for all of their own OS's.

I really wish Sony would come back to the US market. I'm tempted to get an older Xperia device to run Sailfish, but it would be like 4-5 years old, and it's time on the Verizon network would be limited.

It's on the N350, and is going to be pretty limited, though well supported in mainline.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/241638/intel-core-3-processor-n350-6m-cache-up-to-3-90-ghz/specifications.html

Honestly, I don't know if having play services running in a profile that can be deleted would pass that standard for certification. Probably not, I guess.

As for being a fork, I mean the larger community of Graphene, Lineage, Calyx if it continues to exist, and probably a couple Chinese manufacturers who rely on AOSP to manage a fork that is collaboratively developed going forward, that no longer relies on Google's maintenance of the project.

That's definitely one way I've been looking, the hinge makes it enough tablet for me probably. Though the Starlite is passively cooled, which I really like. Right now I just have two laptops, a Thinkpad P14s and an M1 Macbook Air running Asahi. My ideal would probably be to go back to a desktop, and then have something like a passively cooled ARM or RISC V (obviously anticipating the future on both of those) Framework 12. Or even an N350 in a passive Framework 12, like in the Starlite. This would be more of a writing/browsing/video machine for when I'm lazing around or out at a coffee shop or whatever.

Ah well, the P14s is fine for now, and RAM is too damned expensive to buy anything right now anyway.

Last I checked, they'll pre-install any number of distros. I just... I don't know what I'd use it for that justified a separate device from a laptop. Maybe once I get home assistant setup in my new place, but even then... what I'm really wanting is a Linux phone that I can use on Verizon's network. But even there, I'm tending towards moving to my cell phone sitting on the charger 95% of the time, and using kdeconnect.

That seems to be their mid-term strategy, release their own certified device. That should have some interesting implications on safetynet attestation, too.

I still think we need a fork of AOSP, before the community atrophies any further.

I keep looking at the Starlite, it's recently upgraded to an N350. But every time I'm about to pull the trigger, I can't come up with enough use case.

I don't know, a true conservative should be opposing attacks on the institution of our government. And any gerrymandering is an attack on that institution. But I haven't followed him, has he come out with any proper long term solutions? Seems to me, at a federal level we need to do things like lift the artificial cap on number of representatives, limit surface area to volume of districts, and limit concavity of district lines.

But I also recognize the urgency of the moment, and I respect that Prop 50 has limited the blast radius and time in effect.

I think we call it a Democrat.