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> I've never understood this about N900 fans.

> Or was there something else about it?

It's pretty simple: hacker vs. user points of view

i used both N9 and N900. N9 was a way more polished, user-centric device. I love the UX and even how the device looks

however, for (low-level) hackers, N9/N950 was a bit hostile environment compared to N900. The first major stumbling block was Aegis (somewhat similar to Samsung's Knox perhaps). With N900, you can just boot any other Linux by simply loading u-boot to memory using the flasher. Nothing else. N9/N950's Aegis prevented that kind of luxury, so you needed to mess with the OS first, deal with permanent ominous warranty warning, and risk bricking it (see https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81579). On the other hand, N900 is basically unbrickable. So N950 loses to N900 because of these reasons, even though it has a keyboard, a somewhat better one in fact

3G is still working where I live, and will be, for quite some time :-) And yes, VoIP works (if you install a VoIP application), so that's a non-issue.

Pine64 doesn't do any software, so the comparison is apples to oranges :-)

The software from the N9 became what today is SailfishOS (mostly FOSS, but UI closed), and for something fully FOSS, Nemo is also derived from Harmattan, https://nemomobile.net/

Nokia N900 Motorola Droid 4

For these two, see https://maemo-leste.github.io/

You can text and use gps on both of them, as well as make voice calls on the Motorola Droid 4 (calls work on N900, but you need complex audio routing and audio filtering. If anyone has experience with Linux audio, the project will appreciate their assistance)

Yes, they both have non-free PowerVR GPU, but its blobs work on Linux mainline, at least

PostmarketOS aims to deal with this very problem, https://postmarketos.org

+1

It seems to me you already have a good laptop. What version of Debian/Ubuntu are you using? kernel?

uninstall the apps, remove accounts ... if you'll still be keeping WhatsApp, you might not be really ready for a dumbphone

2018 and still burning audio CDs? Not that one shouldn't, but ...

sounds like a type of pomodoro?

strange question - shortest answer is probably: > "the 'instant'" in IM

how does clearing cache regularly help?

what are the benefits/uses?

perhaps you could detail the problem here :-)

I use Termux a lot too, because the Nokia N900 spoiled me and taught me to use Terminal on phone at all times.

Instead of Android + Termux, one can also look at Sailfish OS. You get all that functionality by default. There's also PostMarket OS [1], which should support at least some Android phones

[1] https://postmarketos.org

Google doesn't like it:

"Suspicious link This link leads to an untrusted site. Are you sure you want to proceed to my.stacklinux.com?"

But it seems to be a great site indeed. Thanks for sharing!

what is a solution?

The likelihood is that the iPhone user will most likely be carrying only the Apple device when the catastrophe strikes.

Just wondering: would Apple be open to including FM radio in the iPhone 9 or whatever their next phone will be?

I've never seen an iPhone displaying a CB message. Our mobile operator uses channel 50 to advertise network discounts, and iPhones don't display this, while many other phones do.

Does CB messaging work on iPhones?

That GitHub link was very useful! Thanks. I will see how far this gets.

I have not been able to figure it out (or any other language translation for that matter). Or Google translates this in-house with no possibility for outside contributions?

yes indeed! not everyone uses an iOS or Android device (think SailfishOS, Tizen, etc.), and government sites are essentials services for those folk too.

I remember reading this one here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14101699