In 98 days, I'll treat my Android phone like a brick.

What decentralized phone options exist today?

Can custom ROMs without Google work for daily use?

Does anyone use Linux phones as their main device?

What are the biggest challenges for daily use?

#Decentralized #Privacy #LinuxPhone #customROM

After some spontaneous hacking on BitRitters edit mode, i made some good progress: First time i could change values and save them to the database/server.
It really means alot to le because after 2 failed applications for funding i ditched the topic for too long.
It might need a major rework of the UI internals though, but now i am motivated again.

#BitRitter #VaultWarden #BitWarden #PasswordManager #LinuxPhone #LinuxMobile #Relm4

Three years ago, FuriLabs shipped its first Linux smartphone.

Last week we looked back. Four hardware products, 15 FuriOS releases, 450 changelog entries. And something new on the horizon for 2026.

https://furilabs.com/furilabs-three-years-on/

#FuriLabs #FLX1s #FuriOS #LinuxPhone #linuxonmobile

Lilbits: The trouble with lifetime subscriptions, Google puts AI everywhere, and the Trump Phone is real?

Once upon a time, Plex was a free app that was a fork of XBMC (Kodi) that you could use as a full-screen media player on a computer, or to stream media over a local network. And you can still use it for those things. But these days Plex also offers ad-supported TV & movie streaming, and subscription services that let you stream your personal media collection over the internet (so you can watch […]

Three years ago, a lunch in Sydney started everything.

Last week I was back at that same table. Final FLX1s units sold, major FuriOS issues resolved. Simultaneously.

https://furilabs.com/darling-harbour-three-years-on/

#FuriLabs #FLX1s #FuriOS #LinuxPhone #linuxonmobile

I sigh every time I see a comment saying phones shipping with an OS using Libhybris/Halium are a "proper Linux phone". Like, they depend on an abstraction layer with an Android kernel and drivers to make the hardware function. Adding salt to the wound, most of these devices ship some sort of Mediatek chip which is unlikely to ever see any kind of Linux mainline port.

*EDIT
Mediatek SOCs do have better mainline support these days, Mediatek is sponsoring better mainline support.

Thanks @okias for the correction.

The best performing Linux phones right now are Android phones ported to mainline and #postmarketos. Linux first devices don't compare right now, but I really hope to see more hardware in this space eventually, for the sake of our freedom to dictate what we run on our devices, including the bootloader.

Also curious to know what devices people would/currently prefer, so there's a poll at the bottom if you wanna plop down an answer as you pass by.

#linuxphone #linuxmobile #mobilelinux