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cuban | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think this would be wonderful and also that you may have to make it yourself 🫂. Could maybe repurpose a steam deck?
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atyh | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I have a pine phone. Still doesn’t work, for the same reasons.
The human factor. 
Then again, it’s been almost a year since I checked the landscape…
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cuban | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I was hopeful for an Ubuntu phone or Firefox phone back in the day
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atyh | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yep. 😆
I bought a Librem 5 2 years before release. Never got it.
Got a Pinephone early, looked promising, then software wars.
First world Phone woes. I stopped complaining (except for right now apparently) and bought an old thinkpad. 🤷😄
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cuban | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 joking aside, maybe buy a used pixel 5a or 7a from swappa for cheap and run graphene on it

tis not bad
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kidwarp | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Do you not use the pine phone?
Do you not like it?
Does it at least work as a phone?
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atyh | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I don’t use it. I got frustrated with the SXMO project, which was the only thing that made it usable IMO, and I haven’t used it much. 

The SXMO project had attracted the involvement of people like the guys from Suckless software, Drew Devalt if I remember correctly, and others, which pretty much meant running SXMO, it had a chance of becoming one of the coolest phones on the planet. But it seemed like some fame hungry young developer made douchey decisions and those people lost interest.
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kidwarp | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Well that’s lame, Thank you.
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atyh | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I should mention I’m an elitist snob when it comes to minimal Unix ish software, so take my opinion with a grain of salt 🧂 😆
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cuban | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 you are the best of elitist snobs 🫂