Seems ok for me, since the 3a is an old phone, mostly kept around to move this one group to Signal/Molly.

I don’t know how widespread this is yet, but I experienced it for the first time yesterday on Chromium. Have not on Librefox.

I didn’t know what was going on, so I left the site. Was only trying Chromium because the site had issues with Librefox.

Does Ubuntu Touch work on the 3a? That was my last phone, but after it was no longer supported by Graphene I bought a 7a. I don’t really like Ubuntu but would like to experiment with a Linux phone.

I forget who, but a user on lemmy.ca has done some surveys of users (mostly on that instance?) and it would be interesting to see how much, if any, overlap exists between Linux users and Hannah Montana fans. I guess if this OS exists, there might be someone.

I am about 20 years in, started with Ubuntu and have been with Debian stuff since. I’m not a power user, so when I do any CLI work it’s familiar, but more recently have wanted to get a laptop to experiment with something different. I did appreciate Lubuntu on a cheap used laptop I bought about 15 years ago, currently using something provided thru Mint.

I’ve had very few problems. Not with software at any rate!

I’ve used different Linux OSs for 20 years and switched DEs without a thought and without a big install and never had a problem. Seems like one of the advantages, but maybe I am not using the programs you are.

I had Lingonaut recommended awhile ago here, but it is in early development and still doesn’t support desktop use. It looks like it has apple and android support (maybe? both in alpha I think) but that isn’t how I would interact.

Not sure how much this will help you, but my house is heated by electric wall heaters like this with unit-mounted thermostats. I recently installed a real thermostat for the one in the main room, by using this relay that I wired with a three wire 24 volt off the shelf loom like this that I bought by the foot from the closest to me store. You could use a smart thermostat unlike me. I used this site for help but mine is 120v. That link, tho, is for a 240v and may be more helpful.

Importantly, I have a background in electric (DC) and access to folks with household electric.

Anyway, what you want isn’t hard and can be done safely and easily. But if you are not an electrician, it is best to us a contractor. My heat is on a dedicated circuit, yours should be, too.

Best wishes and be warm!

I’m not sure how to feel about this, either, haha. But both my sister and I are 40+ and she has not had a computer for at least 10 years. Smartphone only.

Given the location of the next one that may happen.

It’s been a long time since I used Ubuntu, but at the time I did I recall running into issues keeping too many old kernels. They were stored in a fixed space folder (or maybe partition?) that was like 100MB and sometimes wouldn’t clear out automatically, so I remember this. May not be relevant now, but if it is, space in the storage folder is the limiting factor so you would need to change that. If it IS a partition, then you would need to deal with all that is involved with that.

edited to add that my current OS only stores three or four as well. I have never really dived into it.

I am US based, so maybe not relevant, but is it a good replacement for Merlin?

Does this have maps of it’s own?

I use this, it’s pretty great! Not really a replacement for the stock app, but I use a non-stock OS so it doesn’t matter to me. It is more like messaging before GIFs and whatnot, but not hard to figure those things out if you want them.

Ya, it works! But it is very much like a phone interface on the computer. Maybe not perfect but it exists.

I have been following along here, trying to learn what I can to be an informed buyer for when I try to get into this. Today I learned I have already made an informed purchase 🙂 I want to reprogram my unit just to see if I can change what it does in a loss-of-power event.

Thanks for sharing!

Same. I need to step my game up! Profiles don’t look that hard, just something to learn 🙂

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Thanks for the tips and discussion! Fdroid was incredibly slow to work with, but I have installed osmand with some additions and found that it can possibly replace Gaia. It has a photo layer option and many other things that ate helpful. I will need to spend more time with it, but I feel good about it!

Thanks for pushing me in this direction.

I am using websocket and don’t see a large battery drain. Am I missing something by not setting up unified push?

What about swappa? I just replaced my 3a with a 7a. I would consider donating it to the cause but had thought about doing something with it.