used to use a used pixel 3a with a pretty thrashed battery, custom roms did help a bit. now i’m using a heavily debloated and modded android flip phone, i can go a whole week without even thinking about charging it (used to last like 2-3 days in it’s stock config)
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the arch wiki is so great, a systemd archwiki page helped me fix a sysvinit issue on devuan (had to convert some weird service into a sysvinit compatible one)
2·7 days agoi’d recommend aurora, it is from the same team that made bazzite, and is literally just bazzite but without the gaming apps preinstalled, focused more on average pc users
think steamos with all of it’s goodies (and more bazzite-exclusive features), but on a more standardised linux base so you can run it on any pc and handheld, not just the steam deck. bazzite is also just as unbreakable as steamos, since it is an immutable (read-only system files) os, and updates the same way as a phone does (downloads an update in the background, and uses it on next boot with a rollback option in the super rare event that it breaks something).
wasn’t this how im14andthisisdeep was born?
ik the mac layout, it’s just that haiku maps alt to opt, which it also happens to use as the primary modifier (for things like copy paste etc), so still under thumb like in macos, just with weird names unlike macos. in haiku win is mapped to cmd, but uses as secondary mod (like alt in windows). then ctrl is mapped to alt, which acts like win does on windows (system level commands like window management) EDIT: fixed typo
at least that’s how i remember it
my brother also has that weird ms keyboard btw, i liked it
really reminds me of the paper mario font
to an extent, it depends on how well-made its rom is. mine has a pretty crappy one where it tries its best to gaslight you into thinking it doesn’t run aosp, so the only way you can install/update apks is through adb or shizuku (f-droid and aurora didn’t work with permission denied errors). also, this phone doesn’t have touchscreen, and very few mainstream android apps support keypad navigation. to make matters worse, its rom is missing some library for virtual cursors to work correctly, so for those problematic apps you have to use either a bluetooth mouse or scrcpy. i was eventually able to hunt down apps on f-droid that handle keypad for all my needs, the only one that doesn’t work is steam guard, still need a mouse for that one. for maps i found a 2011 gmaps apk that still works flawlessly today. was able to install it since there were no google services bundled with the thing (they prevent downgrading google’s apps), so all i debloated was removing some t-mobile crap using canta. some modern android apps also have terrible dpi recognition (phone has a 240x320 screen which is PERFECT for j2me emulation), so you need system ui tuner to set the font size to something absurdly low like 0.025 to initially set up the app so it’s buttons fit on screen. usually once the app is set up you can reset the font to a usable “small” value.
this is where i ramble a bit off topic
before 2g got shaky in my area, i went through 3 nokia phones in a summer, the n95, e7, and n8. they were fully usable for me, and imo android pales in comparison to symbian with the amount of customization and user respect it had. like sure, it was slow at times, but it treated me like a capable intelligent adult, sometting android hasn’t done since 4.4. before the nokias, i used a pixel 3a with /e/os, which was fine, but android feels like it keeps getting worse with every update nowadays. i wanna make a mobile linux distro with a ui like symbian, but it’s too much work.
i feel i’m getting off topic, sorry for my rambliness
TL;DR: don’t buy a sonim xp3plus, there are far better android flippies out there