I can’t quite remember the GPS situation. I believe I had something working, but I think it might have been something from the UT store, uNav. However I can’t speak to GMaps since I do my best to avoid Google apps.

I got really close to daily driving it. I had most of the stuff I wanted in waydroid on a pixel 3a. I just need to get the android notifications bridged out from android to dbus to postal and I’d make the switch

You got any more information on this? Also, is there a point to caring if it is an intellectual property rip off and run by a particularly set of people from a particular country?

It is pretty common when starting to use apps that don’t depend on Google services to not get notifications. Many struggle with inconsistent and sub-optimal notification strategies such as background sync via polling or a custom notifications service and need battery optimizations turned off. UnifiedPush allows for push notifications from a server or your choosing so those other methods don’t need to be used.

Awesome! Can’t wait to hear the official release and if it will end up being a separate release or not.

Just to be sure, you are getting your vanilla iso from MS?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

It has been a while since I’ve grabbed a recent iso, but I’ve always used these with no issue in virt-manager.

Heck yeah, game industry workers are long over due for unionization. CDPR developers just had a headline in the news about unionizing after this latest wave of layoffs.

Does anything else work? For example, can you boot a Debian live disk? What about a Debian install on a VM? This will help isolate the problem to internal or external of the hypervisor.

You could look into sxmo, something like i3 but designed for phones

The point is that the community asked multiple times and they only started allowing apk downloads so people would stop asking. The signal project is open source for auditing purposes only, they have voiced their lament of forks and threatened to ban/block anyone not using an official client and refuse to make it easy to install through a package manager of the user’s choosing. The version without Google cloud messaging has unreliable message delivery, even though there is unifiedpush as a standard that would allow people to register with any push notification service.

Oh yeah, I saw this on Ubuntu touch also. I’ll see if I can get the flathub repo loaded in. That will certainly increase the variety in apps I can use!

Oh cool! I’ll give it a shot. Based on the other comment I got, I’ll need to see if I can get flathub into the pureOS store.

I just received mine after waiting 3+ years actually. It is pretty sweet with waydroid and KDE connect. I’m still not daily driving it because of the lack of a maps application with navigation though.

Beeper provides a free service to bridge all your chats into the same place, including traditionally secure applications like signal with end to end encryption. By using beeper, you are letting them decrypt all your signal chats and re-encrypt them on their servers. I wouldn’t trust a paid service with my privacy on this level, much less a free one. An alternative model could have installed the bridging and stuff directly on your device in the app, but from a usability standpoint that becomes less convenient especially when trying to port all the chat applications to all the platforms. They are just a hosting service for open source bridges with a nice closed source client.

My sympathies lol. I’ve been a long time Linux user. Sometimes my experience can be optimistic but in this case I remember things working pretty well. Definitely post your experience here and feel free to DM if you need a hand with something.

Everything was pretty smooth after getting the right GNOME extensions installed for me. In the project wiki there is even an archlinux repo so you don’t need to compile the packages from the AUR. The stylus was the only troublesome part, but like I said, I think my stylus has issues, so I don’t think I can blame it on the Linux setup.

It was a good time getting the UI tuned in and customized. I had no idea so many good extensions existed for GNOME.

I ran archlinux using the software and kernel in that repo for my surface pro 4. It worked great. Additionally I found GNOME desktop to work well, particularly with some extensions like toggles for rotation, on-screen-keyboard and other stuff you’d find on a phone. I also setup pop shell and cosmic for tiling window management, but paperWM might be better for this these days.

I should not that I had some troubles with the stylus. Sometimes it would work, sometimes not and if I used configuration tools it would sometimes help or sometimes make it worse. That said, I think my stylus is a little screwed up. There is a lot of good info in getting the stylus working and troubleshooting it, you should be able to get it working, for me it was always just a matter of time before I had to fuss with it.

Wow, this is really cool. Literarily just debt cards without the cards, or Apple/Google pay without the proprietary software. Also the option to pay friends like venmo. Open standard, open software and no reason other than capitalism to not use it.

I wonder if Taler could follow an implementation path like Apple/Google pay, I’m not sure how those services even work (is Apple/Google considered a bank? A payment processor?), yet they have point of sale integration which everyone everywhere had to pay to upgrade their systems to support.

Yeah, I use anysoft and just deal with it. It isn’t great, but at least I’m not on Google. I definitely respect your position though, just wanted to show support for anysoft.

The problems you describe are due to capitalism: profit motivated commerce. The open source business model has a focus that monetizes the human actions that are a value-add, such as continued development of targeted features, tech support and other things it makes sense to pay for specialized knowledge, but the tangibles are still open for all to modify, audit or use as they want.