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On 23/06/18 11:59, Simon Waters wrote: > > >> On 21 Jun 2018, at 17:58, Eion MacDonald via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Um! I do not use a smartphone. (Only 2G sms/talk phone) > > Itâs a thread on buying hardware, you can pick up a cheap Android phone with > sufficient oomph for this sort of app for under Â70 so its a viable alternative, > although not free software. > > You could use OpenNote on Replicant if your objection is the non-free nature of > mobile phones, and apps. > Not picking on Simon here but I'd just like to point out here that "if your objection is the non-free nature of mobile phones, and apps" then well, good luck with that in 2018! Also I have bad news about the proprietary binary blobs running in every microprocessor-equipped device you own, including your Linux PC, phone, tablet, set-top box, Raspberry Pi, car... Replicant is a noble idea but not in any sense a viable system for actual use: has anyone actually tried it? I have because I happen to own one of the 13 prehistoric devices supported by this, a Samsung S3 i9300. It doesn't even support wifi, the camera or bluetooth without non-free blobs! None of the devices do. https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus#Replicant-60 A dirty secret is that unless you're one of the five people in the world* running a crippled Trisquel distro booted via coreboot on a decade old Thinkpad with half of it's hardware unsupported there isn't any such thing as a fully free software stack. Well, not that is actually useful for anything. I'm not saying I'm happy about this or that it isn't a fight worth having but let's not pretend that truly free devices that work for normal people exist, because they don't. Yet. I remain hopeful! Cheers * or RMS, obviously -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq