• proycon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I can definitely see where you’re coming from and I have similar experiences. I got fairly fed up with the fact that the modem often doesn’t come up again after suspend on the pinephone. And if you disable sleep like I often do, you often find a dead battery. Despite all the great work of so many people, I’d have hoped for some more stability in the ecosystem by now.

    I also took up a spare Android phone unfortunately, but I’m really fighting with its interface, I want my sxmo !

    (cross-post from Mastodon)

  • Pumpkin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I am still hopeful Linux is the future of mobile devices. I really dislike that on android 5 years of feature updates is really good and only the best phones can strive for this, where as a 10 year old laptop or desktop computer can usually run Linux without any problems and expect both security and feature updates as long as you want. Not even mentioning the limited choice in software that works in an android environment.

    I currently use Sailfish which isn’t what most people mean by mobile linux and does have a lot of problems, but hopefully my sailfish device I have now will see me through until mobile linux is at the point I feel like I can move across.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Phones right now are where computers were about 15-20 years ago.

      Just getting to the point where you can keep one for more than a couple years before it’s too old and slow to do anything.

      • Pumpkin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think it probably depends what you want out of your phone (and this goes for computers too). Most “budget” phones are more than sufficient for my usage which is light internet browsing, calls/texts, podcasts, alarm clock, calendar and a few other things. I don’t really game or watch videos or other things on my phone so usually what happens is the phone stops getting supported before reaching the end of its life.

        Before my current phone (which is fairly new), I used my last phone for 5 years and only gave up on it because it had stopped receiving software updates. I plan to keep my phone at least as long providing Sailfish keep supporting it.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can run Linux on computers much older than 10 years. The kernel still supports the Intel 486, which was released in 1989. The developers only recently started talking about dropping support for it.

      It’s ridiculous that a typical smart phone is e-waste within a couple of years.