Depends on your use case, but there is Tails OS if you’re a whistleblower or reporter and afraid of state actors, and Parrot Security OS has a lot of security, privacy features as well being a pentest distro. I ran Parrot OS for a while and it was pretty good. Good things for privacy, use a VPN to mask your IP as well as using privacy proxy search engines. I tend to not trust many of the VPN companies that were being gobbled up with one linked to Israeli intelligence, so I run my own Wireguard server, Pi-Hole/Unbound DNS servers on everything with lots of block lists, and my own Searxng and Whoogle search proxies. And some things I do behind Tor. A state actor can pin me down with my own VPN server which lacks a lot of users, but that’s not my worry and I use it to just mask my home IP and protect me from ISP snooping for normal internet use.
I daily drived the original Jolla Phone. However since I realized that it was even more proprietary (the core apps + UI toolkit Silica is proprietary) than a simple AOSP Android ROM, I decided that my next phone would be a regular Android phone again.
Now I’m dual-booting both postmarketOS and CalyxOS (which is an Android ROM) oh my SHIFT6mq and I have no reason to ever go back to SailfishOS, even though I liked the experience at the time.
I suppose you dual boot them because postmarketOS isn’t usable as a daily driver right ?
I liked Sailfish UI a lot, and the fact it was a “standard” Linux with coreutils, git, rsync, etc… by default was the main reason I switched to it. But yeah, I’ve been quite deceived by their recent “updates”. I now have an Xperia 10 III, but there doesn’t seem to be much custom ROMs that support it unfortunately (which is also why sailfish support isn’t great anyway).
For some people it’s definitely usable as a daily driver but not for me yet. I for one require some Android apps and Waydroid isn’t far enough yet, but I also need good suspend/battery saving which isn’t there yet on this particular device.
Bacon is just compiler output but it “stays open” in your terminal and refreshes after you save your file; It is nice if you use something a bit minimal like vim without language server but you don’t want to compile manually every time.
I don’t use aliases. Since I use fish as a login shell, I use abbreviations. I have a lot of them configured. But I think my favorite one is yeet which expands to paru -Rcns.
What a nice abbreviation of the conventional way of declaring the minimanalasation of a command. I need to check out fish but i don't really know about it so much.
alias clearswap='sudo swapoff -a && sudo swapon -a'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias ls='ls --color=auto --group-directories-first'
alias la='ls -lAh --color=auto --group-directories-first'
alias timestamp='date +%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S'
Not using SFOS anymore, but I had a real good time with my Xperia XA2 compared to the 10 Mark II because of issues with the aarch64 platform.
One thing that was WAY below Android was the camera quality. A lot of the work happens on a software level that is unpolished on SFOS. GPS was having constant issues (lagging sometimes 30s to 1 minute behind real position) and crashes, and so on…
I got rid of it to come back to stock Android and my XA2 is also running android now as I gave it to my daughter.
But I’m quite interested about the answers you will get.
My experience with the XA2+ was pretty great, and the phone camera wasn’t that bad for my use case. I truly enjoyed the experience and wanted the same with the 10 III, but it seems worse than with the XA2
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