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.

The day I see as many statues, events, holidays, cookies, clubs, parks, etc about aboriginal sacrifices as I see of military worship is the day I’ll think this country is sane.

Or ignore one issue, as it’s done, and forget about the other one too.

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.

Regarding the news, nothing surprising unfortunately. Now let’s be surprised by the international community either ignoring this or doing some mental gymnastic like my good villain seagoon always does to justify this.

You really have no shame do you?

You’re the same guy who was always crying “there’s no genocide” until the entire world except your buddy americans agreed to it.

You are the problem. People like you give those criminals excuses to keep doing what they are doing.

I imagine you have some connection to zionists. No sane person would be so vocal in favor of genociders without some personal interest. Take my sincere disgust as a gift.

I agree, but those options are also unlikely in the long term. I’m just being positive and hoping for a life without Google.

I was thinking, Linux only really worked because companies profit from it and therefore support it. If it were just for desktop users it would have never been more than a programmer hobby. I don’t see phones benefiting more than the end user, and without a lot of profit on that I don’t see that working. So I think the future is dark.

But I’ll still invest on it and pretend I live in an ideal world and pretend it’s possible. It’s not zero percent chance I hope…

From my experience with Sailfish, it is user friendly. The problem is the hardware working as well and finding apps that do what you need. Both issues won’t be fixed without a larger user base.

But it will never be for the average user. That requires massive companies backing it and that requires evil intention. Google is a good example. It started being “nice” but just to get enough market to do this. Or Microsoft and Apple, just being evil from the beginning since they know the average user doesn’t care about that.

Custom ROMs won’t be an option forever. They are going step by step, just “the tip” first to not hurt too much.

Unless people fully fork android and maintain it, but then google will make sure to break compatibility. Plus less and less phones make it possible to install custom ROMs.

The only way forward is getting rid of them. Like Linux and microsoft. “Ecosystem” will always be a problem as it is with Linux (adobe and other garbage refusing to allow compatibility), but as long as it works well as a phone, like Linux works well as a computer, then it will be fine for a lot of people and software will be made to meet their needs (and a lot of software will work as it is now, like Syncthing does on Sailfish).

It worked with desktops. It took a long time, but it did. It can work with phones if there is enough people backing it.

It will be a bumpy road again but if I can get 100% free of google as I did with microsoft, it will be worthy.

None. Move out of Android. Their dick move is deeper than just fucking up alternative stores. It’s to make sure it’s not worthy for anyone to publish outside of play store.

For your safety, of course. Nothing more at all.

Let’s invest in Linux options.

And that’s exactly google intention. All that “security” bullshit is to justify this.

Without something like f-droid google hopes that someone like me who despises them will be forced to use play store.

And I’m sure many of us will bend. But as for me, I’d rather go back to dumb phones if Linux phones don’t work. And google board members can stick their security on a pineapple and stick it in their ass.

With a condom of course because i want them to be safe while being fucked, just like they wish for us.

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.