Right now the only decently speced phone with mainline Linux support is the Oneplus 6, and the only one I can find is being sold for $2000

I was trying to package Typst for them once. The IRC barely gave me any help, nor did the mailing list, so I had to guess a lot of things on my own. I ended up spending several hours working on it and fine tuning it to what the documentation wanted as much as I could. Then I finally made the submission, which was ignored for an entire year, before finally being rejected. It’s clear that the package repository has a severe lack of packages, but if there’s no clear way to contribute, then idk how anyone can take the project seriously.

I’ve also encountered bugs that made the tools unusable on my laptop that similarly got no response on IRC and the mailing lists.

Meanwhile on Nix, if I submit an issue on Nixpkgs, it will usually get resolved by the maintainer in 24 hours, or at most a week if it’s a larger change, and I don’t even have to do anything, and things aren’t constantly broken on aarch64.

Ironfox, but I think you need to use a custom repo or use Obtainium

You can listen to ListenBrainz recommendation playlists using Spotube’s ListenBrainz plugin with their new plugin system

From the last incident, there was Aux that wanted to create an alternative for the Nix ecosystem, but it died before it even started. Right now what we do have is Lix (what I’m currently using) and Tvix as an alternative for the Nix program, and Guix as an alternative ecosystem that’s nowhere near as complete.

Guix basically only has the official docs (which has a lot missing in my experience), a single Youtube channel (System Crafters), official issues/mailing list/IRC, System Crafters forum, the source code, toys.whereis.social, and rarely a blog post or random git repo that might have the information you need

I’m pretty sure Guile isn’t pure functional either, while Nix is

How do you do Flakes with Guix? That’s probably the most important feature Nix has.

Big, … helpful community

Not sure I would agree with that lol

exactly

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I don’t have very many friends, although of the ones I do have the majority of them use Signal, or are terrified of recent politics and I’m trying to move them over currently. I’m not concerned about platform lock-in for communicating over proprietary platforms since if something happens we can just move, I am concerned about the security implications.

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Apparently the RCS is being tested still. Other than that, yes it’s similar to Google voice but the clients are open source

For Linux it could be tied in with terminal commands using an LLM:

“Install Firefox” -> apt install firefox

“Open Firefox” - > firefox & disown

aichat --execute already turns natural language into terminal commands through any OpenAI-compatible API (and OpenRouter provides free Deepseek R1/Kimi K2 access), so there just needs to be speech-to-text.

One of the most useful things about OSMAnd to me is the Brouter integration for bike routes, so it would be great to see this as an option for Linux

Grindr doesn’t even work on GrapheneOS, it’s security checks are insane. I tried the modded Grindr app and they instantly banned my account, so I decided the app isn’t worth my time.

I think JMP.chat supports RCS, and it lets you text through Cheogram or another XMPP client. I believe it also upgrades the connection if both users are using Cheogram similar to Signal when it supported SMS

I was wondering what everyone’s thoughts on these were:

1. It doesn’t work on GrapheneOS either, so I got separate devices I carry with me that do the tap-to-pay instead, and they’ve been a godsend. They’re super compact as well and came for free when I opened the accounts.

2. I don’t own a car, on ebike I use my screen.

3. Normally I use my fingers. If they’re not available I yell cuss words at my phone until they’re available again.

I do “|” so it updates and shuts down at the same time

I did, it fucking sucked