Ah fair enough, I never got around to putting it on F-Droid. It’s not open source at the moment, but I put the APK on my website.

If you like minimalism, you can try Mere Launcher.

Full disclosure: I made it.

If you want something more capable that will handle more experimentation, go for the mini PC. If you know exactly what you want to host and you want to prioritize low power consumption, the pi might be a better choice.

I run CachyOS, it works great for me. It’s not the easiest one, but I like the rolling release style and it’s by far the fastest distro I’ve used (cold boots to gnome desktop in maybe 10 seconds).

This is likely one of those cases of X is Y but not all Y are X. Roman history memes can be amusing for anyone.

Being obsessed with Roman and/or WWII history is a red flag, but not a conclusive indicator (unless the obsession with WWII involves praising Nazis).

I wish I could have more hope that Android will ever decouple itself enough from Google to be useful/practical as free software. Unfortunately, it looks like it’ll end up going the other way, and freedom-respecting Android ROMs will likely be niche and only supported on a narrow range of hardware.

I imagine the Linux phone has better long-term potential, as it’s not tied to a proprietary ecosystem.

Can confirm, I have an EQ12 I’m using as an HTPC. Performance is great and sound is minimal (aside from coming out of suspend, the fans fire up for a moment).

I see Google is amply funding their fun-ruiner division.

Most used? Probably…

• ls
• cd
• nano
• cat
• ssh
• ping
• grep

Favourite? Probably one of…

• yt-dlp_linux (for getting… stuff…)
• ffmpeg (for modifying a/v files)
• rsync (for pushing files to my media server)

I’m using VoIP.ms and yeah, they do SMS and MMS ($0.0075 per SMS, $0.02 per MMS). They have both an online portal and an Android app. There are a few limitations, but it seems to work pretty well overall.

Sounds like I’ll be using a “phone” with Ubuntu Touch or similar with a VoIP SIP app running. As long as I have 4G/5G data, that’ll probably work as well as anything I’m willing to use.

For me, this has the added bonus of being able to configure my VoIP service however I want. Mine lets me do custom menus and such, easier to filter out robots that way.

Let’s see if I have an old Pixel 3a around…

You can delete your LinkedIn account. This has the side benefit of improved mental health.

Oh dang, I’m actually totally into that. Thanks!