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by errantspark 1837 days ago
My only phone is a Pinephone. I don't "daily" drive it because I'm not really much of a phone user but it's still loads better than the experience I had with Android/iOS.

I feel like the phone respects me. It's a computer and when I decide that I want to do [X thing a computer can do] it lets me do that. It feels much better to struggle against real problems I can solve than it does to struggle against fake problems inflicted upon me by other people in order to extract value from me.

I would seriously much rather deal with "Which file do I pipe `1` into using a shell on a phone screen in order to turn on the flashlight LED?" than having to deny Google location tracking privileges for the millionth time because they will just keep asking me until I accidentally hit yes instead of no one day.

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Can you receive calls on it?
Calls have been working on both Pinephone and Librem 5 for a long time already.