there was this satirical “web browsing simulator 2025” or something like that where you had to do all those things.
but I don’t remember the exact name and can’t find it with a search engine. Maybe someone else knows what I am talking about.
I’m not going to replace a whole <insult>ing OS just to get a camera to work. Is deep-level OS tweaking the only way to get the proper image data from the camera sensor?
My first Android phone was Motorola Dext, second one was HTC Desire Z, which I held on to for a long time. By the time I had to replace it, there were no slide-out keyboard phones any more.
Then some time later F(x)tek X1 Pro was released. Looked like a perfect phone for me, but was too expensive, so I did not get it. But now that it’s time is over as well, I look at the reviews and see that I did not miss much.
So now I am sadly on a glassy rectangle like everyone else, but I do carry a collapsable bluetooth keyboard around with me sometimes, so that I can still type some longer text in a proper way.
Also, I solved my no-headphone-jack issue by getting USB-C headphones. And there are USB-C to 3.5 jack adapters if you need to connect existing headphones or other equipment. So I don’t really get how this “I miss a hole” is everywhere and lasts for so long.
I took this image with FairPhone 4, running LineageOS 22, using the default camera app.
https://obzorje.kompot.si/s/cPaYdRHQf2CG6iL
Tried playing around with some other camera apps from F-Droid, but all of them make pretty much same pixelated mess as the default.
No idea what the reason for this is. Is the camera sensor on phone actually decent, but then some algos in camera app fail to optimise things or something?
No idea, but I am quite often ashamed of sharing pictures with other people.
Luckily I am a kind of person who takes more “utility” type of pictures. Markings on devices and other kind of informative stuff.
If taking pictures of beautiful views and social events was important to me, I would probably not be using FairPhone 4. I would want to use it, but with the current state of camera on de-Googled phone, for artistic purposes, I could not.
It was revealed to him in a dream
Did you check out NewPipe?
I was not aware of the issue that downvotes negatively affect mental health.
The best kind of correct
Selling Skyrim yet agan would be too much. Todd said that they need to go for something less obvious this time.
lol, Todd sold you Oblivion again
cool idea
concept somewhat reminds me of OpenDesk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendesk
Which I know about because it uses the same name as https://opendesk.eu/en/ , which I am actually interested in.
https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/gitlab-profile/-/blob/main/README_EN.md
Isn’t that exactly the beauty of the fediverse?
It does work, I have been using it for a long time now in context of my interest of using a phone as a PC.
https://xdaforums.com/t/phone-as-a-pc.4633441/
Thing is that with just termux, you get just the android/termux environment.
There is a way to get more familiar Linux environments running on your phone by using proot from within termux.
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot
For example, using that you can install ARM version of Manjaro, which is basically the same thing that you would run on Raspberry Pi.
But everything in there runs a bit slower, because Proot is some layer that takes up a bit of performance.
Benefit of that is that you can run some Linux software that is not found within Termux packages, but is available in the repositories of other distros. Libreoffice is one such example.
LineageOS 22.2 (on FP4) does not seem to have that option yet.
At least, it is not listed in the developer options.
You can find it if you tap on the search button within developer options (or just general settings, as that also includes results from developer options) and type “terminal” or “linux”.
The (Experimental) Run Linux terminal on Android result shows up.
But after you tap on that, you see that toggle is greyed out. Can’t be enabled.
I am interested in getting that to work, so any help is appreciated.
There is hopefully some ADB command or something that forcefully enables Linux environment.
There are / were some bridge bots that mirrored the posts from one site to another. Bur i don’t know what the current state of those is.
Make an app that guides users when folding the phone
Title reminds me of the thing that Lous Rossmann initiated:
https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Main_Page
which seems like it could be a subset of the thing in OP
All right, good stuff.
But I’m slowly getting a feeling that there are quite a few “European alternatives” websites right now.
Will make a list of them once I have time.
(from Hot Shots! Part Deux)