AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
How did we all agree that instead of an entirely feature-complete, open operating system that we’d rather bolt stock Linux on mobile hardware? This is hardly the lesser of two solutions.
Android is already open source, already has a mobile app ecosystem. The choice seems to be continue development without google or convert a desktop OS to mobile, then continue development without google.
AOSP is cool and all because it has the building blocks for a whole mobile experience, I long for a wide range of supported devices style of mobile distro (or bare minimum several brands)…That has the appeal and vibe of the distros that I like. It’s the cool factor that drives this want (even though it might not be practical). This is mostly an idle thought on my part.
There are de-Googled phones that run Android fairly well and have their own app suites and compatibility layers for using Play Store apps too. Part of the reason why I long for something…a bit more flexible is so that I could install it on a phone with a bigger screen and be set. Sadly, the models that I have found are a bit too small for my liking, 6.3 inch screens are simply too small for me. I like a roomy 6.7 inch screen.
My big thing is: why a Linux distro?
How did we all agree that instead of an entirely feature-complete, open operating system that we’d rather bolt stock Linux on mobile hardware? This is hardly the lesser of two solutions.
Android is already open source, already has a mobile app ecosystem. The choice seems to be continue development without google or convert a desktop OS to mobile, then continue development without google.
AOSP is cool and all because it has the building blocks for a whole mobile experience, I long for a wide range of supported devices style of mobile distro (or bare minimum several brands)…That has the appeal and vibe of the distros that I like. It’s the cool factor that drives this want (even though it might not be practical). This is mostly an idle thought on my part.
There are de-Googled phones that run Android fairly well and have their own app suites and compatibility layers for using Play Store apps too. Part of the reason why I long for something…a bit more flexible is so that I could install it on a phone with a bigger screen and be set. Sadly, the models that I have found are a bit too small for my liking, 6.3 inch screens are simply too small for me. I like a roomy 6.7 inch screen.