[Discuss] smart phones

[George Farris]

Get an Android phone you can root and put Lineageos on it.  The run a
Nextcloud instance for your contacts and calendar.  A $5 a month server
from Digital Ocean works great for this.  Use F-Droid opensource repos
for apps.  No more Google, just be careful what apps you load.


On Sun, 2019-01-13 at 18:44 -0800, Arthur Ralfs wrote:
> On 1/10/19 5:34 PM, Peter Willis wrote:
> > Apple.
> > Get a used one from  digital-rabbit to reduce the global resource
> > burden.
> > The Apple-hate-myth is overblown. 
> 
> Don't agree with you.  The trouble is now I don't know which is
> worse, 
> Apple or Google, along with Facebook I think of them as the axis of
> evil.
> 
> D.R. also have 'droid phones too, as I am told.
> > Otherwise just make a belt apparatus or sack and carry an obsolete
> > PC clone, with a monitor, on your back.
> > Carry a big bag of quarters for use with, sparsely distributed,
> > public phones.
> > You’ll be safer except for the low back pain, continual danger of
> > electrocution in the rain, and troubles catching the bus.
> > The long term trauma to your body, and shortening of your life by
> > decades, will surely make up for your concerns over Googles cloud
> > infrastructure or Apples spinning rainbow disc.
> > On the upside, the police will always stop you to say hello because
> > of the sack. Keep a big snake in there as a showpiece for the
> > curious.
> > 
> > XCode comes free for MacOS. You can make your own apps for your
> > iPhone.
> > 
> > The Android simulator is your go-to for open source development on
> > ‘SkyNet' compatible phones. Be careful of the singularity or it’s
> > imaginings, lest your phone begin to randomly identify dogs by size
> > and color.
> > 
> > The best policy is no phone. That way you’re days off remain
> > sacrosanct, people will come to your house to eat food, laugh, and
> > make eye contact if they are able, and your spine will never be
> > stooped due to long hours responding to snapchat.
> 
> I agree with you on that and, as mentioned, I've avoided having a
> phone 
> since day 1.  Of course the term "phone" is an historical misnomer
> and 
> as a powerful pocket computer it might be worth having one without
> even 
> using the phone stuff.
> 
> > Consult Donald Knuth in any case.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On Jan 10, 2019, at 5:03 PM, Arthur Ralfs <arthur at mathbrane.ca>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi List
> > > 
> > > Well I've resisted getting a mobile phone all these years but now
> > > I need to get one.  Apple has always been out of the question for
> > > me and I used to think I'd get an Android.  However I'm
> > > increasingly wary of anything associated with Google.  I know at
> > > one time there was talk of open source phones.  Anybody have any
> > > suggestions?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Arthur
> > > 
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