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"How I Made a Minimalist Dumb Phone With Free Software"(www.howtogeek.com)

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✅ LineageOS
❎ Google Apps
✅ F-droid
✅ Antennapod
✅ Voice
✅ Fossify apps
✅ Kvaesitso launcher

I’m not gonna lie, this “dumb phone” is awkwardly close to how my daily driver has looked for the better part of a decade.

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Steve@communick.news
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I don’t think Dumb Phone means what they think it means.

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sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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How is it dumb if it is running LOS?

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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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Lmao “I didn’t install the Google Play Store so my phone is now a minimalist dumbphone” ???

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unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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Probably “dumb” in the sense it doesm’t actively spy on you. Which is a god-awful definition of dumb.

Personally, I’d go with non-malicious, shortened to non-mal which basically loops back to “normal”.

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haverholm@kbin.earthOP
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I know, right? I guess they mean “free of distracting bloat”.

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Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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So its lineage OS with a minimalist launcher. This is click bait.

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haverholm@kbin.earthOP
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I mean, it’s on HowToGeek, so I’ll generously think of it as onboarding another few people to custom ROMs…

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juli@lemmy.world
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“made” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, they “modified” it.

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haverholm@kbin.earthOP
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Yeah, the honest title would be “I evicted Google and I can just use my phone like I want now”.

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superkret@feddit.org
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I “made” a “dumb phone” like that too, using a normal Android, Universal Android Debloater, FDroid, Fossify and the Simple Launcher.

For my next project, I’ll turn my laptop into a typewriter by disconnecting the WiFi.

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haverholm@kbin.earthOP
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Sounds low effort! The real way of turning your laptop into a typewriter, of course, is to install Linux without a desktop environment and run an editor from command line /s

At least the author of the article could be arsed flashing a custom ROM 😉

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