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MartineRomy
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26 Nov 2025, 6:02 am

Don't even like using phone for browsing... annoying. Tablet bit better.
Tried some games but those are all crap.
During brief 'full apple' setup it wasn't even used for calling (< 10 calls / year so... meh).

Think my phone is used more as a flashy remote... Most use is authenticator for home work.



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27 Nov 2025, 6:02 am

MartineRomy wrote:
Don't even like using phone for browsing... annoying. Tablet bit better.
Tried some games but those are all crap.
During brief 'full apple' setup it wasn't even used for calling (< 10 calls / year so... meh).

Think my phone is used more as a flashy remote... Most use is authenticator for home work.

The one thing I enjoy on mobile, which could be called "Social Media", is Mastodon (Tusky App). It's all nicely formatted, even for a small screen.


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27 Nov 2025, 7:52 am

CapedOwl wrote:
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Can i join the mobiles are useless club. Or at least not all they are cracked up to be.

I see them as a big step backwards. They took us from open standards, and open protocols, to proprietary, toxic walled gardens. And it's wrong to text people while in the bathroom, using the toilet. It's disrespectful, like farting at the exact same time that someone else is trying to talk.

Then when else are you going to do it?


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27 Nov 2025, 8:37 am

I like choice of being able to use a smartphone or laptop. Apps that only work on smartphone get in way of that choice.


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29 Nov 2025, 4:04 am

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I like choice of being able to use a smartphone or laptop. Apps that only work on smartphone get in way of that choice.

I strongly agree. Any mobile-app-only ecosysystem, is an ecosystem I try to avoid strongly. I reluctantly use WhatsApp, which is very mobile-first, and mobile-tethered. Alas, Signal followed suit here. Deltachat broke free of this trend. It requires no mobile, or phone number (and has many, but not all, of the same end-to-end encrypted features of WhatsApp and Signal)


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29 Nov 2025, 2:07 pm

I think I'd like to try Guix someday. It looks neat.



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29 Nov 2025, 2:40 pm

I strongly recommend against guix. The juice ain't worth the squeeze. Same with any other hairshirt-esque distro, such as Arch, Endeavor, Nix, etc. One will find oneself serving the interests of the OS. It won't be the OS serving one's interests. These are the sorts of distros which eventually make people throw their hands up, blaming linux generally, saying they're totally finished with it.

The easier, yet solid distros (with strong support communities and a lot of mindshare) like Linux Mint, or Debian, are the distros that go the distance for one, long-term, I say. It's these distros where it's easier to install the occasional highly-needed, closed-source, 3rd party software, like say nvidia drivers, or Zoom.


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29 Nov 2025, 3:10 pm

Selfishly I was hoping that someone would weigh in with some experienced insight :) thank you so much, CapedOwl.

I do like fiddling with things till they work for me.

But I've never been able to take Arch very seriously. If it is in that basket I will leave it.



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26 Jan 2026, 10:10 am

I feel like there's spoonfuls of me, all over cyberspace


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28 Jan 2026, 3:17 pm

50 years ago, who would have thought that you could be sat watching the television with the whole wide world in the palm of your hand


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28 Jan 2026, 6:14 pm

I hope UpScrolled quickly replaces TikTok, now that TikTok has fallen to the orcs.


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15 Feb 2026, 9:12 am

CapedOwl wrote:
I strongly recommend against guix. The juice ain't worth the squeeze. Same with any other hairshirt-esque distro, such as Arch, Endeavor, Nix, etc. One will find oneself serving the interests of the OS. It won't be the OS serving one's interests. These are the sorts of distros which eventually make people throw their hands up, blaming linux generally, saying they're totally finished with it.

The easier, yet solid distros (with strong support communities and a lot of mindshare) like Linux Mint, or Debian, are the distros that go the distance for one, long-term, I say. It's these distros where it's easier to install the occasional highly-needed, closed-source, 3rd party software, like say nvidia drivers, or Zoom.

I've used Arch, and it's better as an experimental or hobbyist distro that you can tinker with than something for everyday use. It's good if you want to get into the nitty-gritty details of your OS, which can be quite fun, but if you're trying to watch YouTube videos or some other normie $hit, something like Ubuntu is better.


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