12-16-2019, 08:05 AM
Use case:
I have never bought a smartphone. I have had to use one because of my work, but basically I have lived with a burner phone. The only things I use on the smartphone are the podcast app, whatsapp and the browser occasionally. The basic issues I have with smartphones have to do with the way they are designed to hog your attention. And I mean this in a rather fundamentalist way: I don't like it when a computer reminds me of updates. I basically am allergic to the machine telling me anything if I didn't make the initiative or if it isn't another person somewhere. I stopped using Ubuntu when they put the "recommended app" banner on synaptic (or whatever the package manager was called at that point). So, what I am hoping to get is a phone that does what it is told to do and nothing else. I also would like to not feel like someone's always watching me, so I will probably go tinfoil hat on it at least a bit.
Hopes:
Firefox
Manjaro
Phone functionality
Keyboard that works well with terminal
Fears:
The interest dies down and development fizzles out
I have never bought a smartphone. I have had to use one because of my work, but basically I have lived with a burner phone. The only things I use on the smartphone are the podcast app, whatsapp and the browser occasionally. The basic issues I have with smartphones have to do with the way they are designed to hog your attention. And I mean this in a rather fundamentalist way: I don't like it when a computer reminds me of updates. I basically am allergic to the machine telling me anything if I didn't make the initiative or if it isn't another person somewhere. I stopped using Ubuntu when they put the "recommended app" banner on synaptic (or whatever the package manager was called at that point). So, what I am hoping to get is a phone that does what it is told to do and nothing else. I also would like to not feel like someone's always watching me, so I will probably go tinfoil hat on it at least a bit.
Hopes:
Firefox
Manjaro
Phone functionality
Keyboard that works well with terminal
Fears:
The interest dies down and development fizzles out