The Pinephone died, Ubuntu Touch died & I am starting to feel sick too – the reason why I am negative about Linux phones – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on July 10, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Modified from «Einstein died, Newton is dead and I’m starting to feel sick too»

After many years of investigation about Linux phones I gave them up today.
I will choose an Android phones with GrapheneOS instead for privacy reasons.
Android phones with GrapheneOS can do anything I want.
I can have one phone with full privacy.
And another phone with Google apps to have the other apps I need
for instance TWINT, Softmaker Office, buying SBB tickets, etc.
all of this should work.
But I am still forced to use NextCloudPi for data synchronization to my PC.
This is almost as giving up after many years of investigation.
I am against servers if possible, and I am promoting encrypted SD cards for privacy reasons.
It is more handy to use.
The only device which could do that I know is the Pinephone.
But this requires the Pinephone Keybpoard to come back.
And also a community of software developers to do it.
I am a physiologist and I don t want to become a Pinephone soft- and hardware developer.

A solution which still is interesting for me personally are mobile devices based on the Raspberry Pi zero 2 w with Raspberry Pi OS and DietPi. 10 years of soft- and hardware development is something which makes Raspberry Pi’s superior to Linux phones:

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