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Patroncast - S04E05 - iPhone & Linux: functional, but not ethical?
🕑 Added 2024-01-29 12:02:29 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
I hope you had a good weekend, here is your weekly episode of the Patroncast to start the week with more questions and ranting!
In this one, I talk about:
- 01:07 Using an iPhone as a Linux user, and how it's perfectly functional, but makes me feel like a hypocrite, and how the Fairphone 5 might be the device I was waiting for
- 15:17 My first real problem with Nvidia drivers, and how I now understand the complaints about these
I hope you'll enjoy the episode, and have a great week!
Comments
The Linux Experiment
That's something I haven't found either on various alternative ROMs. I'm sure there's an app that lets you backup some things to a cloud provider of your choosing, but it won't have access to all your storage / settings, probably, since it won't be at the OS level. I'll look into it if / when I move back to Android and various ROMs!
The Linux Experiment
True! It would be re-sold, not thrown away, but yeah, you're right
Emil Johansen
I went from an iPhone 7 to a fairphone 5 when the iPhone repair bill exceeded reason (pay X to get a functional phone which runs a subset of needed software as a slow, almost stable experience). The camera is obviously a massive improvement, but I would assume you might not get the amount of processing you're after. In terms of software, the experience is really nice, running with Aurore and F-droid, all Google pre-installs removed/disabled, no active Google account. I would really like to move to a setup with Robotnix managing a grapheme install, but am still running the stock install from fairphone. Partly because last I checked grapheme wasn't there in terms of hardware feature coverage and partly because I have yet to find a good solution for full-phone backup sync ala Google/Apple phone backup, but where the data is actually mine. Would very much appreciate any hints on that last point as running around with a phone without a backup is somewhat stressful.
Emil Johansen
fairphone would be the first to tell you to not churn your iPhone.
