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    15 hours ago

    I actually don’t know. And besides all your worries, mine would be the camera. It most likely will suck, even for the >2000 moneyz one. But i will try them, what else could I do? I wouldn’t touch crapple with a 20m-pole and android goes down the same drain.

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      14 hours ago

      The Halium ones are okayish on camera because the divers are Android. They’ll perform at least as well as android 5 or so but with a high rez output. They also have decent-ish battery.

      The ones with straight Linux kernels have various problems. You can go and look up a given operating system and its support level and they’ll generally enumerate what the problems are. Even the ones with bigger batteries get less than 6 hours.

      Signal won’t run natively on any of the Linux phones. You have the option of running waydroid in a lot of cases. But when you’re running it in waydroid, the phone can’t go to low power. So it burns your battery to hell and back.

      I think your only current option for a daily driver would be to get one of the fairphones and use UBtouch.

      Pine is only dedicating another couple of years worth of phones. Fairphones is on the struggle bus but they’re still in the game. Most of the newer pixels aren’t supported in any of the distros.

      Most of the districts won’t run on any of the newer phones.

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        5 hours ago

        Great. That sounds way worse than I expected. Why the fuck is it so hard in 2025 to manufacture a tiny computer that runs Linux? If battery is such a problem make it swappable. Crap. So what now? Buy a dumb phone and take a DLR with me? Like back in the day? Dumb enough I’d need a new car without android auto.