I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board.
One of my goals for my first year was to improve the board's diversity, and I am pretty darned happy with how that is turning out.
I have also helped drive forward some important policy-related stuff.
Let's see what this year brings.
I must admit that, thanks to Google, I am not massively optimistic about the future of Android and Free software.
I'm also spending some of my volunteering time on non-Android mobile Linux projects, because I think that they are increasingly important and necessary.
If I had to put my money on something other than GrapheneOS, it would probably be postmarketOS.
But I was pretty impressed with Ubuntu Touch when I tried it again recently after a few years.
I've also wondered about a better separation of connected and non-connected mobile devices, and whether that would be worth exploring.
You can use #GrapheneOS for that. It completely isolates components through IOMMUs (and others), meaning that if you disable mobile connectivity, WIFi, BT or enable the airplane mode, the hardware is actually off.
Currently there is no device with an e-ink display that is supported by GrapheneOS. That is not due to development capabilities of the project, but solely due to unavailable hardware that meets the requirements. Can't build a proper and safe home on quicksand, just as you can't build a secure OS on insecure hardware.
@neil pmOS is great but no support for new phones.
FuriOS and their phones look cool. You seen those?
> pmOS is great but no support for new phones.
Yes, which doesn't worry me massively, as nothing I do really demands a cutting edge phone.
> FuriOS
No, not tried one.
I've ordered a Jolla phone. Not sure about privacy with Sailfish OS but I'll find out when my phone arrives. 5G phone 50 Mpixel camera. Uses zypper to update the phone.
I'm used to OpenSuse and Tumbleweed. Should be easy for me to understand 🙂
@richardibbo Ha!
Of all the mobile Linux environments that I have used, I struggled the most with Sailfish, but I genuinely hope that it turns out well!
@neil Yeah, just yesterday I was telling my wife that we'd most surely be running Linux on our PCs in 2035, but Android on our mobiles... not so sure.
Hopefully we'll run a FOSS Linux distro too (and sooner) but I'll be grateful to you and the communities anyway. I didn't know you were in the F-Droid board, amazing work! 🥰
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