this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
943 points (98.8% liked)
Technology
70080 readers
3788 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Gemini also being forced on me more and more in Android. Seriously considering a linux phone next.
I've been hoping for one for some time, but it wouldn't be a smooth sailing even if everything was perfect. Get a pixel, install grapheneos and see if you can cope with it. I've been running it for a year now - lack of decent map app is my biggest issue that's left. Waze is great for driving, but useless for everything else; it's also owned by google. Most other apps are just reskinned google maps and don't even load without gapps.
And I'm a sysadmin. My degoogling journey began in 2018-2019 with running my own nextcloud for files, photo backup, contact and calendar sync, as well as my own email server. All that to say that I've had it fairly easy to ditch play store on a phone, but that's not what most will experience.
In the beginning I used OsmAnd for maps, its a bit wonky sometimes but the maps are high quality. Magic Earth fixed the the wonky ness but uses osm maps, is pretty great visually pleasing and can do all sorts of settings like speed assistance, lane assistance. I haven't used it much but Organic Map looks good too, seems to have a focus on public transportation.
What do you do for calendar sync? I found I had to use an extension like DAVx⁵ to synchronize them to my phone, did you find another way?
I'll give Magic Earth a go, but osmand is just missing a bunch of stuff I got used to having I guess. The actual map part is fine.
I use DAVx⁵ myself. It's not ideal aesthetically, but honestly not a thing I worry about.
If it's anything like Linux desktop the apps you really need (for me, WhatsApp) are going to be available in 10 years. After that it's a short slide to "if you don't have Linux (why not?) by the way here's how to install on android/iOS if you must."
At least that's my experience as an early Linux on desktop adopter. Yes Linux is a niche thing in mobile at the moment but the truth is the developers are the ones who make it happen and they are already there.