time for change
Some time in October I think it was I decided that it might well be a good time in world history to get hold of a reasonably secure and “smaller-tech” mobile phone in order to be a bit less dependent on the current major players.
June 2024 Jump to bottom of the page! On the day before travelling back from Lavarone, Italy, I did a daft thing and left my …
So far so good BUT no amount of fiddling about or reinstalling, resetting or various other methods could persuade the Garmin Smartphone Link app to work without Google background services.
I have been using the Volla phone 22 since it arrived in August… and, after a few initial hitches, reboots in the night and griping about the camera, I have got used to it and it’s a good daily companion.
The Volla phone 22 has now been in daily use for about a month and I have gained much useful experience and a few gripes from it.
I signed up for the new Volla Phone 22 on Kickstarter with a view to getting my degoogling and, if possible, Ubuntu Touch project back off the ground again.
Whilst doing this I realised just how slick and smooth the android ecosystem is, it all works and the more complicated stuff runs unseen in the background, it is, undoubtedly, a serious achievement and has ripened and grown over the years from beginnings that were, perhaps, not too unlike ubuntu touch at the moment. I began to realise just how dependent I have become on the android ecosystem and resolved to move my “cloudliness” into somewhere a little less transparent to big tech companies.
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