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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Can someone please come out with a phone that's an actual computer and help stop this nonsense?

Phones cost a lot of money at this point and I'm completely sick of them being some locked down, surveillance ridden pile of crap. A reasonably built one would be able to replace a laptop at this point if it weren't for these artificial constraints imposed by the stupid fucking suits running things.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Valve should make a Linux phone. Smaller Steam Deck with a modem

[–] Martyy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would LOVE a linux phone

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

There was an Ubuntu phone. It failed.

[–] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

furilabs flx1s. I'm using one

[–] Kailn@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 3 months ago

There, exacly what you want.
Here's a more budget one.

GPD has been making "mini laptops" for a long while, now they try to make similar gaming handheld.
I'm not sponoered nor I've bought this for myself. (yet)

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

dude. you can just install a custom rom.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As long as your phone model is supported by any custom mod. I have checked compatibility for almost all smartphones I owned, some 7 or 8 through the years.

Not a single one of them was ever supported by a custom mod.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

but you did not check custom rom aupport before you bought tgem, cause did not want freedom and moddability. its on you.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

I consider price and technical specifications. I don't have 200€ to spend on a phone. Most phones I bought were less than 100€ new. What I care about a phone is that it supports two SIM cards.

With such constraints, choice is quite limited unfortunately.

Is it worth having a free device? Indeed. Is it worth spending 4 times the price just for that? Not to me.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Intentionally non-standard hardware does not get a real custom rom. It’s just a mod of Android which Google can render intentionally incompatible any time they want

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

not like linux phones are super compatible