Oh, agreed.

There’s some other stuff at play with the minis (shared family photos, backup to each other, etc) that I’m going to use as an enticement to get them to learn to use these tools.

Once they learn that, I can slip in some other things, piecemeal, depending on what each person clicks with.

To be fair, you’re talking about root - which is always tricky.

I run rooted Pixels, and so far updates haven’t been a problem.

So far…

Forty years ago you still had the daily paper and the Sunday paper.

Even then you only needed the Sunday.

OMV is an OS, and it’s a version of Ubuntu Debian.

Bkuefox NX1 https://aiphor.com/products/bluefox-nx1-4-0-android-smartphone?variant=54544491348041

My current phone is a Pixel 5, because size, unlockable, and fingerprint on the back.

The BlueFox looks promising, and a decent price! Could be my spare phone, especially since I migrated my phone number to Jmp.chat - they pipe your SMS into XMPP, so it’s no longer SIM/device bound.

https://aiphor.com/products/bluefox-nx1-4-0-android-smartphone?variant=54544491348041

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Oh, yea, Samsung has had this since like 2015.

Never worked well then, but I’m sure it does now

Since 1985 for me.

All my cars go to 300k, or more.

Color is absolutely part of VIN.

But your point stands.

It’s largely roll over protection safety requirements have increased dramatically. So you get massive pillars that have to distribute force into the rest of the body.

Which also has to handle that load, or prevent intrusion laterally from side impacts.

It’s largely driven by safety designs.

They do, but know what works better? A single panel in front of you with all the views - you don’t even have to turn your head.

As someone who’s raced, "Wink" mirrors demonstrated this fantastically: multi-panel rear-view mirrors where you could see everything behind and beside you in a single mirror.

I used one in my daily driver when I had a neck injury (whiplash) and could barely turn my head for 2 years. Way easier to see all around you, and better too.

The tech for a camera system has been available and trivial since the 90’s. A single 4" tall wide screen on the dash, or built into the center rear view would work.

Clearly you’ve never driven in rain, snow, fog. Side mirrors are very problematic. Cameras can be better protected, and done right even deal with rain and ajow a lot better.

Oh, she’s in for a rude awakening one day

If people can function only with a phone, there’s a LOT they aren’t doing.

I use my phone constantly, but trying to get even a rooted Android phone to replace my PC’s? Yea, no.

I’m not doing spreadsheet stuff only on my phone, or documents, or page layout, etc.

That younger folks are heavily mobile centric is a result of pressure by Google/MS, etc to get them used to it. When they’re used to the limitations of mobile it’ll be easier to limit PCs in the same ways.

And business, yea, no, mobile isn’t replacing computers. They’re great adjuncts, but even my laptop screen is sometimes too small - and I’m not someone that needs a large screen although time.

App switcher is a component of the native launcher, so not really going to be able to change it anymore (since about Android 11 or 12) - God knows I’ve tried, because I used a different app switcher for years.

If you just need to close all apps (not sure why, Android is much better about memory management now, and I say this as someone who abuses a phone), just create a shortcut with Tasker/Macrodroid/3C Toolbox, etc

Macrodroid has a drawer it can open from a side swioe, and Jina App Drawer has something similar. I use both, and have some shortcuts there for things.

Bold move, Cotton!

(Not really, Lineage updates are the most seamless I’ve ever seen).

Uggh, feel bad for them.

I’ve tried for years to get friends and family to have their data sit in a single point in the house and use backup services. That would be a massive improvement.

Family won’t listen, so I’m building minicomputers for them all that will handle it. Just have to configure their devices to store data there.

This started because one sibling asked about transferring photos from a phone, and I started documenting how to use Resilio and Syncthing.

I don’t do upgrades (well, not in the sense most people think of them).

My approach is that upgrades are too risky, things always break. It’s also why I don’t permit auto updates on anything. I’d rather do manual updates than dedicated time. Keeping things working is more important, and I have backups.

I run everything virtualized (as much as I can), so I can test upgrades by cloning a system and upgrading the clone. If that fails, I simply build a new system based on some templates I keep. Run in parallel, copy config and data as best I can, then migrate. Just migrated my Jellyfin setup this way.

This is a common methodology in enterprise, which virtualization makes a lot easier for us self hosters.

I haven’t had a disruption from updates/upgrades in 5 years.

I don’t know how private/secure it really is, but Teleguard doesn’t require a phone number.

I’d really like to see some research into them, though, to know how good/bad it is.

I don’t know where to even start.

Alternative: XMPP has been around for 25+ years, can be self-hosted, there’s numerous solutions available.

And neither would Proton…