I had a friend suggest a chat platform I couldn't install directly to Linux, then installed but couldn't find a way to get running in Waydroid, so I figured that since I use my OnePlus 6T experimentally, I could switch back to Murena's /e/OS (the only AOSP ROM I've successfully gotten to install & run on it) for a while.
Not only could I still not get said chat platform to work even on AOSP (ostensibly its native environment), but looking at browserleaks.com/webrtc , every single Firefox-based browser I installed gave away my local IP. The Chromium-based "Browser" app (that's its name 🙄️) would not even render the page correctly, so who knows what it gave away.
I'm more of a security/privacy nut than your average consumer, but I am by no means an expert. I just don't want to consistently see information I'd like to stay private, turning up in the clear on public websites. At least it was over https (that we know of, on the browsers it successfully rendered on).
So, back to postmarketOS I've come. And literally set it back up the way I wanted over a couple hours during which I also fed the kids and the dog, and am listening to shuffled music from a local server while I write this in Tuba on the new postmarketOS install on the phone.
With Google increasingly yanking support for AOSP & app developers, I don't think I'll be looking back much. Yeah, I'll watch with hope it doesn't die. But I'll likely be sticking with mobile Linux, even as I assess long-term how much it can replace my current daily driver (iOS, no browser on which, incidentally, gives away local IP to webRTC).
And I'm putting my money where my mouth is on that: in the last few hours of the campaign, I've just reserved a pre-order voucher for the Jolla phone coming out later this year. It at least will have the hardware blobs to talk to its own camera (which the OnePlus 6T is currently unable to do amazingly well in Linux, though the reverse-engineered fact that it can at all is impressive!). How will I get on in the Sailfish OS interface? We'll see, but provided it has the tooling for most of what I want to do (backups, gtk apps, maybe the occasional app in Waydroid if on the web is too tiresome and the security is sufficient), it should be fine.
We'll see, and you can be sure I'll post on the experience.
Oh, and the chat platform my friend suggested? I won't promote it, but it has something to do with latter-day Jack Dorsey (🤢️). So I showed my friend XMPP, and we've been chatting on that ever since!
#OnePlus6T #postmarketOS #gnome_mobile_shell #Waydroid #Murena #Jolla #Sailfish_OS #XMPP
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