After having touched their Linux-hostile tools for a project my enthusiasm for them decreased

I think you misunderstood my post lol, the fact that the signature 27 has none of those features is the point

Phones like these have features that power users love like headphone jack, expandable storage, removable battery, and repairability improvements. They also have really good software support too and a lot of OS options, such as both mainline Linux support and Android. And on top of that, a 10+ year support lifetime so you can really get the most out of your hardware. It might be $1000+ USD more expensive than the alternatives, but the freedom, added functionality, and longevity it gives you makes it really worth it!

I think people who want private OSes and people who want offline storage for things have a lot of overlap

It’s not even really freedom because it still struggles to run normal Linux programs

I think a powerful Linux phone plus a laptop chassis that connects to the phone somehow and turns it into a laptop would be really nice

So basically not an upgrade from my Pixel 6 Pro then. Irritating that Google/GrapheneOS abandons phones that work perfectly fine since that’s the only reason I’m even considering an upgrade.

I can see 16GB phones being useful, but there needs to be cheaper options

I would maybe consider spending $2000 on a phone if it was functionally as usable as a laptop. Which Android is not.

I guess I’ll upgrade to a Pixel 8 Pro instead

They’re getting threatened by the US and they can’t even change a word processor, lol good luck to them

No wonder they’re panicking so hard over open weight Chinese models

fortunately the Steam deck doesn’t have that problem

F-Droid has stricter requirements for apps to be listed so I prefer the official repo, for instance Aves on IzzyOnDroid has Google dependencies that Aves Libre on F-Droid doesn’t have. IzzyOnDroid is my backup for some apps I want that aren’t on F-Droid.

Does Neo Store have a way to make apps only use the official F-Droid repo for updates unless you downloaded them from a different one? Because it seems to just want to update from any repo, so I ended up splitting F-Droid Basic for official F-Droid apps and Neo Store for IzzyOnDroid and other third party repos.

There’s a healthcare organization where I live that basically dominates everything, and every time they contact me it’s through a new phone number and new format of call/text and they’re super disorganized as well

it’s very probable this PC is running some hardened Linux distribution made look like Windows

Instead of using Wine it uses Vodka

He should have used Linux

LLMs themselves don’t, but an external memory system that it reads/writes to might or if someone is reading the chats. But running LLMs locally can be very private.