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

submitted 5 months 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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[–] Steve 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't think Dumb Phone means what they think it means.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How is it dumb if it is running LOS?

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

Lmao "I didn't install the Google Play Store so my phone is now a minimalist dumbphone" ????

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Probably "dumb" in the sense it doesm't actively spy on you. Which is a god-awful definition of dumb.

Personally, I'd go with non-malicious, shortened to non-mal which basically loops back to "normal".

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 5 months ago

I know, right? I guess they mean "free of distracting bloat".

[–] juli@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"made" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, they "modified" it.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, the honest title would be "I evicted Google and I can just use my phone like I want now".

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So its lineage OS with a minimalist launcher. This is click bait.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 8 points 5 months ago

I mean, it's on HowToGeek, so I'll generously think of it as onboarding another few people to custom ROMs...

[–] superkret@feddit.org 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I "made" a "dumb phone" like that too, using a normal Android, Universal Android Debloater, FDroid, Fossify and the Simple Launcher.

For my next project, I'll turn my laptop into a typewriter by disconnecting the WiFi.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 6 points 5 months 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 😉