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This is awesome - thanks for sharing. I just so happen to have a domain left lying around for the Searx instance I never spun up, so I might end up using it for a weekend project with this.

Love Wiby, been playing with it awhile now. I especially enjoy the "surprise me" button from time to time.

Can second this! The mobile Linux community is a very friendly and open space. I've been loving my Braveheart and PostmarketOS CE Pinephones, and am looking forward to picking up a PinePhone Pro to test and build with as soon as they're back in stock on Pine64 Store.

I've been doing development on the PinePhone as well. The ability to just plug in right to an HDMI display with the device and a keyboard/mouse and have a pocketable GNU/Linux environment has been nice the last few years. And I'm able to use that old third-party DeX dock that I rarely used with my Galaxy s8 - so there's that, too!

I didn't suggest to lie, I said, what if the customer actually doesn't have a mobile? Have we reached the point now where if someone claims not to have one, they're lying?

I should clarify i wasn't referring to myself - I have a mobile (deGoogled, at least). But there do exist people who don't want or need a mobile device.

What about a simple "I don't have a mobile?" A lot of folks forget there are still people who don't have one - and many who don't want one. If the store won't transact with someone simply because they don't feel like handing out that bit of information (or simply because they don't have the information to provide), they're not really a store worth transacting with.

Love micro and use it frequently in my work. Simple, easy to configure, and sensible keybindings.

You pretty much listed off what my response would have been. I use Gajim quite extensively, and I've also got Kaidan installed on desktop and mobile for testing. It is certainly coming along, with more improvements in the future pipeline. I've yet to try Dino on my PinePhone, but it runs just fine on desktop.

I just finished spinning up a new xmpp server/site for myself and friends, as well as anyone else (its public - https://civitaz.xyz). Other than that, doing more stuff for FOSSphones (my Linux phone news site) and working on my side project TTS game. Fun stuff.

This is cool! Congrats on the first release.

I have been finishing up on also serving my Linux Phone site, FOSSphones, over Gemini.

https://fossphones.com gemini://fossphones.com

I don't trust any company that much. But in this regard, its even worse - Google makes it no secret that theyre collecting your data, while mozilla goes all-in on the privacy messaging and then pulls a stunt like this.

Vivaldi is okay, but it is not really FOSS and it is based on Chromium

Hammer, meet nail. This is it in one sentence.

You might like https://based.cooking. It aims to fix this very issue.

Probably because it effectively means that Google’s own devices are the simplest to “deGoogle.”

I run LineageOS with zero Google services (no microG either - no need for it) as my daily phone, and have been for several years now across a series of devices (currently, a Moto z3 Play and an Essential PH-1).

I prefer to use FOSS apps where I can, and as such, most of my installed apps come from F-Droid. When I do need something from the Play Store, I simply use the Aurora Store to grab those applications (which are really just Paypal and Slack for work).

Potential issues you might run into are some apps like banking and such not functioning thanks to SafetyNet. For banking, I just use the browser anyway, have never had the need to use my local bank's mobile app.

It really depends all on your needs, but you will find that using a de-Googled device is very doable as a daily driver, and I have been doing it for a number of years now - I can't tell you when the last time I signed into a "Googled" Android device was.

I also have a few PinePhones (my first testing grounds for Sailfish, interestingly enough) and am a huge proponent of Linux phones. I throw my SIM in my Pinephone sometimes and use it often for testing development stuff. For daily driving, however, my de-Googled devices are still what I reach for the most.