Sure. Looks like on Ubuntu Touch the only thing not working is the fingerprint reader

https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp3/

The OS in general isn’t ready for daily use though. It’s maybe doable if all you need is text, calls, camera, and a browser. And the calls only work in some countries. But it’s fun to play with.

Do you live in the US or Europe? There are some possibilities out there, but it’s kinda region dependent.

It seems like Linux-compatible android handsets stopped around 2021. Except a few bespoke models that are hard to get your hands on outside of Europe.

I have a OnePlus Nord N10 flashed with Ubuntu Touch as a tinker device, unfortunately in the US it’s not daily-able because we shut down 3g and 2g networks and they still haven’t managed to get VoLTE working on Ubuntu Touch yet (though it may be coming in the next year!) so phone calls don’t work.

There’s also the Pixel 3a/3a XL which are plentiful and cheap but I like the N10 a bit more because of the additional RAM. Makes it feel a little less old compared to the Pixel.

If you can get your hands on a Fairphone, Pinephone or Volla those are great but hard to get outside the EU.

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At least that’s biodegradable

I’m one step ahead by being too out of shape to be drafted

Checkmate

Most Americans don’t think about other countries enough to really grasp what you mean by rogue state

In here absolutely everyone knows this stuff and it’s all just common knowledge.

Absolutely not. Not even close.

(cw: transphobia, chuddery)

My mom was like this and was even a LCR local party functionary at one point. (She’s MtF trans)

Basically she says that gender dysphoria is a mental disorder (which she has). Also mega-conservative in pretty much every way.

Yep. ATM or call your bank before you leave they can often give you foreign currency with advanced notice

Before 2005 or so it just smelled like cigarettes in any indoor space

They’ve put the text in the image to circumvent filtering lmao

Google gets to control the source code, what additions are added, and what features don’t get into it.

Yes technically some organization could fork it and then maintain a fork themselves. But it’s a huge undertaking that almost nobody has the money to fund. Browsers are free so there’s really not a lot of monetization schemes for browsers.

So nobody as far as I know has really been able to maintain a hard fork of chromium for very long. Remember, every change you make then has to be maintained by you and then you have to keep it up to date with the chromium master tree while also keeping all of your changes compatible. It is a big undertaking almost as big as modern operating systems. Browsers are just too complicated so Google in this position does still have a monopoly that’s very hard to fight.

Almost all browsers other than Safari and Firefox are based on Chromium, which gives Google a ton of control.

IIRC they basically never send anyone to Laos - it’s “uncooperative” with deportations. So it wasn’t that insane.

Modern Android TV box with a custom launcher. Apparently Projectivity launcher is decent.

But if you already have a Shield that’s cool keep it until it stops working. I’m just not gonna tell anyone to go buy one.

Because it’s end of lifespan and you should spend your money on something that will at least get a few years of support and updates

Yeah but I wouldn’t recommend anyone go and buy one at this point.

We’re not stupid. We’ll invade from Buffalo.

Use a separate, not ad-riddled device plugged in via HDMI. If you have a game console it can do this.

I don’t know what’s good for Android TV boxes it used to be the NVIDIA Shield was a well regarded streaming device but it’s really old now. Google makes one (Google TV Streamer) and you can install a custom launcher if you’re a bit technical and the “suggested content” of the stock launcher bothers you. Same for other Android TV boxes.

Apple, like them or not, makes a really decent TV box with no system level ads and an interface that mostly stays out of the way.

They’ve designed the system intentionally this way, to keep people dependant on them.