@dynamic

So it depends on what you do with your phone and what specifically you mean by sovereignty.

If you can away with it, go with a "dumb" phone / feature phone. Some run KaiOS, some are minimalist and run their own operating systems. Some run a stripped down version of Android. The android ones spy on you a lot.

The two big smart phone OS's are Android and iOS, of course. Both spy on you.

A decent option is going with a fork of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) or "degooglefied" android. Something like GrapheneOS or LineageOS or eOS are great places to look. They have a lot of support and community.

Some you can get preinstalled, like eOS on Murena phones. Others you install on aftermarket phones. Look for "supported" phones to get examples of this.

There's also Linux Phones.

Purism's Librem 5 is great and you can buy it preinstalled with linux and they have great support.

If you want to install a Linux mobile OS on an aftermarket phone, you can go with PostmarketOS or Ubuntu Touch (ubports).

There's also SailfishOS.

Your mileage may vary, so dive in and have fun.

cc @GuillaumeRossolini

#linuxPhones #AOSP

@dynamic

So it depends on what you do with your phone and what specifically you mean by sovereignty.

If you can away with it, go with a "dumb" phone / feature phone. Some run KaiOS, some are minimalist and run their own operating systems. Some run a stripped down version of Android. The android ones spy on you a lot.

The two big smart phone OS's are Android and iOS, of course. Both spy on you.

A decent option is going with a fork of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) or "degooglefied" android. Something like GrapheneOS or LineageOS or eOS are great places to look. They have a lot of support and community.

Some you can get preinstalled, like eOS on Murena phones. Others you install on aftermarket phones. Look for "supported" phones to get examples of this.

There's also Linux Phones.

Purism's Librem 5 is great and you can buy it preinstalled with linux and they have great support.

If you want to install a Linux mobile OS on an aftermarket phone, you can go with PostmarketOS or Ubuntu Touch (ubports).

There's also SailfishOS.

Your mileage may vary, so dive in and have fun.

cc @GuillaumeRossolini

#linuxPhones #AOSP

Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,

After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.

We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app : )

Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.

The #mobileLinux community is growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.

[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]

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Signal Messenger is a really good app.

Full stop.

But it's preventing me from adopting a Linux Phone.

I can't get away from iOS or Google because of Signal.

(and "degoogled" AOSP with sideloaded Signal doesn't make sense to me. I can't sort it out. I'm trying to.)

Looking at who I talk to on Signal, I wonder if I can get another end-to-end encrypted messaging app that compares to Signal that would run on a Linux phone and that I could migrate all of my friends and family over onto (so it would have to be crossplatform with iOS and Android.)

Anyone have any recommendations (from personal experience. I'm doing lots of DuckDuckGo searches and wading through AI slop right now).

#linuxPhones #linuxPhoneApps #Signal

🔧 Big news: the first Liberux dev-board is here!

After weeks of work, we’ve finally received the assembled PCB and already started booting it up. Our hardware team has spent the last days debugging, testing, and getting the SoC to talk to the PC, and we’re officially entering the bring up phase! 🎉

📚 We just published a full post with all the details, photos and videos: 👉 https://liberux.net/our-first-dev-board-has-arrived/

#Liberux#LiberuxNEXX #linuxphones #openhardware #opensource

🔧 Big news: the first Liberux dev-board is here!

After weeks of work, we’ve finally received the assembled PCB and already started booting it up. Our hardware team has spent the last days debugging, testing, and getting the SoC to talk to the PC, and we’re officially entering the bring up phase! 🎉

📚 We just published a full post with all the details, photos and videos: 👉 https://liberux.net/our-first-dev-board-has-arrived/

#Liberux#LiberuxNEXX #linuxphones #openhardware #opensource

Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,

After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.

We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app : )

Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.

The #mobileLinux community is growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.

[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]

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