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Every so often I feel a wave of revulsion that the computer I use the most — my iPhone — is an almost completely closed system controlled by someone else.

Contrast this with my desktop where, in the press of a few buttons, I am presented with the source code for the CPU frequency scaling code.

Bring on the Linux phones.



Can you recommend one?


Either a PinePhone or a Librem 5. There's not much more choice than that atm.


And neither are usable as daily driver for the majority of people.

I really don’t want to wait half a minute for taking a picture, and would prefer if the phone would not be untouchably warm after the fact.


Some people argue Google Pixel (and Chromebooks) can be fully controlled with a custom key.


Do they have baseband isolation? Without an option to at least isolate this black box all else is worthless.




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