Flaki · @flaki
573 followers · 1360 posts · Server flaki.social

For a couple years now I've been slowly untangling my digital life from Big Tech, as much as I could (something @nolan called at one point a "Tech Vegan" nolanlawson.com/2019/05/31/tec - very apt :doge_laugh: ).

A lot of my and self-hosting work has enabled this ("cloud" backups from my devices, especially my phone), Mastodon's increasing prominence has meant I could ditch some of the last holdouts (well, the musky boye helped there, too :birdsite: )

The latest step is switching from stock Android to an AOSP-based open source phone OS, I have been looking at Lineage OS and preparing the switch by reducing my reliance on Google/closed source apps as much as I can.

One thing I noticed is that while some OSS apps are actually really good (many only missing features you need to be a Big Tech Company for¹), Android is *awful* at supporting Progressive Web Apps as an alternative, even the very few good ones that exist.

I miss dearly :blobcatmeltcry:

#homelab #firefoxos

Last updated 1 year ago

Farooq Karimi Zadeh · @farooqkz
7 followers · 32 posts · Server blackrock.city

@perry

The information is also available on BananaHackers wiki, kindly contributed by the same person:

wiki.bananahackers.net/en/devi

I'm gonna do some micro improvements for the page :)


#bananahackers #kaios #nokia #foss #ffos #firefoxos

Last updated 1 year ago

GOwin · @gowin
189 followers · 2175 posts · Server social.tchncs.de

@onat In the beginning, I was looking at some of the Nokia phones with , the fork from , but none had the features I specifically wanted, and most won't work for our local networks :(

Found some interesting Xiaomi Qin feature phones with "smartphone features", but it didn't have LTE, and was really expensive for their feature set.

I think the best surprise for this is ditching a Google account (to get tracked!) to use the phone, thanks to .

#fdroid #firefoxos #kaios

Last updated 1 year ago

steamgrunge · @cybergrunge
238 followers · 428 posts · Server diaspodon.fr

en fait régulièrement des belles, de conneries, en ce qui concerne les directions prises (, repose en paix).
Mais laisser le monopole de l’«  » (big data + machine learning) à Microsoft, ce serait une belle connerie aussi.

Moi je ne trouve pas ça si con qu’ils s’y mettent, à condition qu’ils ne sabordent pas le projet à la fin.

#mozilla #firefoxos #ia

Last updated 2 years ago

codepoet · @codepoet80
10 followers · 38 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

FeedSpider 2, the best news reader for and also works on Android devices, and PCs, Macs and iOS as a PWA!
github.com/codepoet80/FeedSpid

#webos #firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago

Aral Balkan · @aral
32904 followers · 23550 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al

Imagine if Mozilla were what it says it is and had released Firefox OS under GPL…

Instead, they did the research and development (with some of your money, if you donate to them) for a third-party company to come and close it off in a commercial product. Oh and for their patron, Google, to invest $20 million on top to create closed “smart feature phones” to farm the data of the <strike>poors</strike> “next five billion.”

*golf claps*

tuxphones.com/smart-feature-ph

#kaios #firefoxos #mozilla #bigtech

Last updated 2 years ago

Leandro · @leandro713
5 followers · 7 posts · Server mas.to

odio a Mozilla por matar en un sistema sobre HTML+javascript podía hacer cosas que ahora no puedo ni soñar ni en IOS ni en Android 😩

#firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago

Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 · @mcepl
138 followers · 1214 posts · Server floss.social

@timbray @raph I like github.com/tonsky/FiraCode , because I used FIra with (who even knows what it was?).

#firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago

Ansgar Nordstrom 💠 · @Ansgar_Nordstrom
62 followers · 1247 posts · Server mas.to

Xataka ha publicado un artículo sobre . Es una tristeza que este sistema se haya acabado, porque era una gran promesa para el . Lamentablemente falló por romper su propio esquema fundacional: que un navegador es suficiente para reemplazar la interfaz gráfica de un sistema operativo en la actualidad.
Pero, en lugar de ser fieles al concepto, trataron de imitar el funcionamiento de Android y obviamente fracasaron.
xataka.com/aplicaciones/que-fu

#softwarelibre #firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago

LINux on MOBile · @linmob
3599 followers · 5796 posts · Server fosstodon.org

A new release is out (/#b2g continuation, now supporting the ):
---
RT @capyloon
A new release was just published in capyloon.org/releases.html#jan !

- Easy sharing of links & files.
- Multiple homescreen support, with a Media Center one.
- A new contacts app, with import/export over IFPS.
- Pinephone Pro installer images.

Details in capyloon.org/docs/slides/relea
twitter.com/capyloon/status/16

#capyloon #firefoxos #pinephonepro

Last updated 2 years ago

Kevin Karhan :verified: · @kkarhan
572 followers · 20832 posts · Server mstdn.social

@starshine @fuchsiii
And as of also limps on in a weird nieche of low-end devices just shy of completely locked-down and unchangeable firmware.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

Worse than 3rd party devices: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S60_(sof

#s60 #symbian #firefoxos #fork #kaios

Last updated 2 years ago

Kevin Karhan :verified: · @kkarhan
572 followers · 20832 posts · Server mstdn.social

@starshine as a matter of fact I wished would've released and subsequent devices in more markets, but like the -based & one couldn't even buy them in most of the and the only devices I was aware of were |ed Feature Phones in that would've been useless paperweights to me or any other developer.

Otherwise @fuchsiii would've made and for it...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko

#Games #Apps #spain #prepaid #netlock #EU #freerunner #neo #neo1973 #fic #openmoko #firefoxos #Mozilla

Last updated 2 years ago

Kevin Karhan :verified: · @kkarhan
572 followers · 20832 posts · Server mstdn.social

@starshine the closest to this was , where aside from the underlying kernel and drivers [aka. ""] Everything else was the "Gaia" UI running in .

Basically every app is only + + !

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_

#js6 #css3 #html5 #gecko #gonk #Linux #firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago

Mamie · @Mamie
97 followers · 169 posts · Server mastodon.roflcopter.fr


Au boulot on va jeter un téléphone de dev Firefox OS, qui a la batterie qui est décédée (gonflée), et qui du coup ne s’allume pas du tout.
Si ça intéresse quelqu’un, c’est toujours mieux de donner que de jeter, sinon on va le benner.
Faites moi signe 🙂

#toulouse #don #firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago

Rob Campbell 🐳 · @robcee
263 followers · 592 posts · Server fosstodon.org

going through some old boxes, found this gem.

#firefoxos #b2g

Last updated 2 years ago

@danslerush
@tuxdevices

What's the state of devices today @dietrich is there a stable build for any current devices?

#b2g #gerdaos #capyloon #firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago

#firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago

Ustinoff auf Eis · @Ustinoff
338 followers · 2452 posts · Server mastodon.social

Schrankfund. Von 2014. War gut.

#firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago

On the corporate side, there's KaiOS -- a fork of FirefoxOS that was successful almost the moment it was sunsetted at Mozilla. In my opinion, the decision to cancel remains among the worst mistakes at the company -- a blunder so severe its true effects may take decades to fully understand.

Even in the immediate term, KaiOS is now 's second largest mobile OS. In 2020, Mozilla had to negotiate a partnership with KaiOS to bring the modern Gecko browser engine to the platform. At the same time, the Gecko renderer remains completely banned on all iOS devices, and Google uses its market dominance to gently suppress Firefox by running pro-Chrome ads in Youtube -- a company Mozilla Foundation has invested campaign money into "fixing."

Utterly humiliating. What is going on at Mozilla and why is none of this taken into consideration?

kaiostech.com

#india #firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago

On the corporate side, there's KaiOS -- a fork of FirefoxOS that was successful almost the moment it was sunsetted at Mozilla. In my opinion, the decision to cancel remains among the worst mistakes at the company, and

KaiOS is now India's second largest mobile OS. In 2020, Mozilla had to negotiate a partnership with KaiOS to bring the modern Gecko browser engine to the platform. At the same time, the Gecko renderer remains completely banned on all iOS devices, and Google uses its market dominance to gently suppress Firefox by running pro-Chrome ads in Youtube -- a company Mozilla Foundation has invested campaign money into "fixing." Utterly humiliating.

kaiostech.com

#firefoxos

Last updated 2 years ago