Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

@AAMfP @janvlug (to not be misleading, it was actually 18 years and I did carry an additional second-hand Android phone around 2017-19 when N900 got too old to act as a proper smartphone, so under ideal market conditions it would probably be 4 phones over that time actually)

@AAMfP @janvlug Out of curiosity, how often do you replace your phone?

I wonder if that's something where that "don't want to spend more than 200 €" comes from. Over the last 20 years I have only used GNU/Linux phones and they have all cost significantly more than that, but there were only three of them (plus some spare parts) so they may have actually been cheaper than the average overall.

@janvlug @codo BTW. I do have a plan to make it be dealt with automatically on stock PureOS with minimal negative impact, just bear with me for a while still as unfortunately I only have two hands and one head and need to sleep at times 😁

@janvlug @codo It's a modem firmware bug that we have no control over. There are workarounds with various tradeoffs, you could put a watchdog for it too. In practice, for me it's only a minor annoyance since flipping the switch is so fast, but I can see it being disruptive for certain use cases.

Fortunately the modem is easily replaceable so we won't be stuck with this forever.

@jajo @janvlug Here in Poland there is one kind of instant payments that can't be done without my bank's mobile app (Blik) - but their Android app works fine in Waydroid.

Some banks around the world require platform attestation which is extremely user hostile though. If your bank is among those, you should complain to them and maybe look for alternatives.

@lazarus @janvlug "using GNU/Linux" on my phone of course, dropped a bit too much to squeeze into the character limit ;)

@lazarus @janvlug You realize that you could have said the exact same thing 10 years ago? It did not begin with the Librem 5.

Back when I started using GNU/Linux, it was at its infancy as a platform. You could develop against gsmd, or FSO, or Qtopia, or Maemo, or... It was a wild west of things that came and went. Now most of the stuff happens under GNOME, KDE and FDO umbrellas, and these absolutely aren't going anywhere within the next 5 years.

(and people use Thunderbird on their phones too)

@lazarus @janvlug Well, that's where we differ in our judgement. Your stance may have made sense 20 years ago, but now the answer is "very likely, yes", especially that these days there's no real separation between desktop and mobile platform anymore.

@lazarus @janvlug Maybe it's just that I see a bigger picture. I've been using GNU/Linux phones as my main devices for nearly two decades now, it sometimes took a while but a successor always eventually came and significantly improved on what was there before.

Sure, having more available options would be good, but if we all just wait until they're plentiful it's just never going to happen.

@lazarus @janvlug That's some arbitrary measure skewed by people used to phones that are only supported for some laughably short times. Librem 5 is a still supported and available device from 2020. It's slowly starting to show its age so I'm looking forward for a viable successor eventually appearing, but it's not like there's a desperate need to have one there yesterday already.

@lazarus @janvlug I don't get what you're trying to say at all. MNT Reform is about as affordable as Librem 5 is (and that's perfectly fine, hardware can't be copied out of thin air; economics of scale only help you *after* you gain that scale).

@lazarus @janvlug And yet people do develop, just like they did decades ago when GNU/Linux had much lower usage on PCs than it does today. Settling on what Volla or Murena do is like deciding that there's no need to bother switching from Windows cause having WSL around is enough. Yes, it can be useful when you need it, but there are many challenges we're facing as a society that this does not answer at all.

@lazarus @janvlug @fdroidorg People keep repeating that, and yet I'm using one and it feels perfectly fine now in 2026 and all the apps I need work on it. I understand that some people may have needs that aren't answered by these, but I think it may be tad exaggerated in all these discussions.

@74 @tomgwynplaine microG to wolna reimplementacja interfejsów Play Services, a nie "ograniczona wersja bloatware'u".

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@codo @janvlug
You can easily turn any website into a webapp, whether it's defined as a PWA or not. Pic related.

Battery, in my experience: 4-5 hours of active use; 12-14 hours of idling without sleeping; 22-24 hours in system suspend where it wakes up from calls and SMS.

Calls and SMS have been reliable for me here in Poland, but it's always subject to carrier compatibility now with VoLTE.

In general there's no need to reboot at all unless updating or working on the kernel.

@herrLorenz @SwiftOnSecurity Windows Media Player and iPAQ are other tells that the date may be inaccurate too 😁