But what options are there for non tech savvy people. Apple isn’t any better.

I hope that one day we fix our bullshit and stop relying on corporations to save us. This should should be regulated to hell and back by representatives and their teams who are at worst just mediocre at their jobs.

While we’re dreaming and all that I’m gunna high ball it.

Let’s not wait. Let’s collectively ask Valve to make that next

I’d absolutely move to a steam machine in my pocket.

Gaben deserves a 14th yacht if he makes this ;)

Its always the Zionists they see land, life, freedom, and people as something to be bought and sold.

TIL Unity owns ironsource.

I found this. Its a Raspberry Pi in a brick case with a screen and a 4G modem.

I REALLY wanted to do a pi phone, and while it’s very possible to make a working phone/tablet out of one, their power consumption is absolutely awful. Most of the linux capable SBC’s can’t do low power.

I want an 8" linux touch screen with 18h of moderate usage batter life, I’m even willing to carry around a separate 4g access point.

Furi’s FLX1s seems like a valid alternative.

CM5s have 16GB of ram, some people might be building a postmarket os port for it too. Just need someone to design phone hardware for it.

I wish I could install GrapheneOS on my Samsung… fuck it. I cannot wait for this shit to be paid off and I can get a GrapheneOS compatible phone.

Fuck Samsung to hell.

I’ve tried living without a mobile phone.

It makes life needlessly difficult. Doing anything requires getting through layers of “why don’t you have a phone”

I looked into getting a landline installed in my home. The guy at the phone store said land lines aren’t a thing anymore and showed me the fucking modem they’d be using for my “land line”

Something is deeply wrong.

I can’t imagine the pixel is much better. I think the question you have should be inverted. What doesn’t have spyware…

I made the mistake one time. Idk why people speak so highly of them. What is wrong with them?

It got forced updates at Random hours of the day with no even pretend consent of “Not right now. I’m literally on a phone call”. All the update was to install Candy crush or Facebook. Again

I literally lost out on a job because it shut off to update while I was on a phone interview. Called back and the guy was rude af.

Problem is that Samsung is like Apple- a shitton of people just blindly buy the latest Samsung whatever with zero research.
So you have a bunch of other companies trying to stand out in one way or another- Motorola for example just released a phone that brings back the 3.5mm headphone jack. And you have a ton of cheap Chinese companies that may or may not offer any software support after purchase but have interesting form factors.

That makes it hard for the little guys to get the kind of sales volume needed to justify the development and tooling for a really cool flagship phone.

Personally while phones today are far more capable, I think phone designs peaked in the mid 2000s. Mainly because you had actual innovation in design– wildly different form factors. There were a few phones that flipped open like a laptop with a physical keyboard, a handful that slid open to reveal a blackberry-style keyboard, many had SDIO ports or other ability to clip on expansion modules, etc. Phones had fun features- there was one that could do an early ‘google pay’ type thing by pulsing a magnetic field to pretend to be a magnetic credit card stripe for a swipe reader. A lot of the early Samsung phones had IR blasters so you could turn TVs on and off. There were a couple designed for gaming that were laid out like a game pad. Manufacturers weren’t afraid to experiment and the result was some really cool stuff.

Sadly that’s all gone today. HTC (which made many of those cool phones) was driven out of the market by Apple and Samsung, so now virtually all phones are identical flat bricks.
I see a glimmer of hope with flip phones and foldables, but not much. They’re all just excuses to