Ugh… It's Termux. You're using GNU/Linux on Android essentially. Which just proves my point that GNU/Linux just offers more stuff.
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Again, why not use some mobile GNU/Linux OS instead? It's even more robust than a terminal emulator.
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Why not? It's still quite clunky at this stage really. Not that I'm against the concept, it's just not very fleshed out as of now. LOS with termux and no google bloat is comfy.
@dushman @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @cyberspook You can't get rid of Google bloat completely because a lot of stuff won't work without WebView. Replacing Google's implementation with Bromite is probably the best you can do at the moment. Mozilla tried to make WebView based on Gecko, but they've given up long time ago.
Bromite is pretty great as far as Android browsers go. Firefox on android is borderline unusable due its terrible performance, and Chrome is proprietary garbage lole.
@dushman @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @cyberspook I use something called Fennec which is basically Firefox Mobile with telemetry removed I think. And it is just fine for browsing Twitter. Via Nitter 😂
It might have inferior performance, but phones are so powerful nowadays that the difference is barely noticeable.
Also, it's not just about removing telemetry because Firefox's image assets are themselves proprietary.
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@cyberspook @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org @dushman @iska@mstdn.starnix.network It was. Then they've renamed it to Firefox Mobile and this Fennec we have now is a fork: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
"Fennec" is Mozilla's codename for Firefox on mobile.
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