Have you considered SailfishOS?

Personally I recommend getting a Sony Xperia and installing it yourself.

SFOS has been my daily driver for 5 years now.

I paid €49 for the license, so it’s a bargain right now at 24.90, and my latest device, an xperia x10ii, cost just €60.

Linux phone

What do you use? Is it your daily driver?

I use SailfishOS on a Sony Xperia. 50€ for the SFOS license, 60€ for the phone.

I definitely have lost at least one install to getting stuck in vim, flailing the keyboard and writing garbage data into a critical config file before rebooting.

fortunes-bofh-excuses on Debian

Even that could be tricky; these weren’t bootable/installable images.

edit: admittedly, I have no personal experience but some years back we tried to help someone install Yggdrasil (in a VM iirc) and did not succeed.

I have a separate encrypted partition that I can mount/decrypt/unmount with my filemanager (or something like pmount) by clicking on those little arrows. Much nicer than whatever on-top-of-the-filesystem solution I used previously. It happens to be on a microSDcard that just sits in its slot forever.

OK. Does it get to BIOS? Have you opened a dedicated thread for fixing this?

It’s… dystopian…

We’ve already used up our big words in February. Supercynical “I have no words” in March.

Now, the horror getting worse every day has become the new normal coming out of the US, every day, steady as a slow machine gun.

Had I known how much worse it’s going to get I’d have saved up some words during the first months.

I think it’s something called pre-emptive obedience. Those mods that stayed have made their choice. they’re willing to abide by the new rules; and since some of these rules are ridiculous and confusing, they prefer to err on the side of caution.

And now, for no reason at all, I will leave you with this disturbing image:

Technically, if you had tons of time and a solid understanding of Linux inside and out, you might be able to pull it off, but it’s not worth the hassle at all.

This is what I thought. Preferably “from the outside” i.e. while the system isn’t running. But all you “saved” in the end is the filesystem the original OS was installed on, and possibly personal data (which probably is the reason OP is even asking).

Theoretically yes, practically no.

+1 for openSUSE btw.

Personally I don’t use a separate /home partition. Software versions can differ significantly between distros and this has plenty of potential to effectively fuck up your system anyhow*.

I use a separate data partition instead, and hook it into my home with symlinks. Pictures, Documents, Videos etc. - these are usually those that take the most disk space anyhow, by a large margin.

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What’s it based on?

Also +1 for openSUSE.

A-non-I, social media algorithms, etc.

Combined with the increasing complexity of software and operating systems, this creates a creeping mindset of “that’s just how it is, only other computers can understand it” or some such. Which I heartily disagree with.

All the more reason to advocate for Open Source Software.

There are many ways to simply share coordinates like you would share a weblink - click on it, the appropriate app opens it. Not sure if I remember correctly, but they look like gps://....

I currently use Google maps

As far as services are concerned I recommend openstreetmaps and its various web/app/desktop frontends. But ulktimately it will be up to each family member how they choose to open such links.

This. There are many ways to simply share coordinates like you would share a weblink - click on it, the appropriate app opens it.

“Nobody will lend me any money anymore,” Lindell claimed. 🥹

I recommend MPD and a cli frontend like ncmpcpp (horrible name, good software).