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"How I Made a Minimalist Dumb Phone With Free Software" (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 2 days ago by haverholm@kbin.earth to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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✅ LineageOS
❎ Google Apps
✅ F-droid
✅ Antennapod
✅ Voice
✅ Fossify apps
✅ Kvaesitso launcher

I'm not gonna lie, this "dumb phone" is awkwardly close to how my daily driver has looked for the better part of a decade.

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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 5 points 1 day ago

Sounds low effort! The real way of turning your laptop into a typewriter, of course, is to install Linux without a desktop environment and run an editor from command line /s

At least the author of the article could be arsed flashing a custom ROM 😉