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1. Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 17:34:33 UTC Nolan

   The main issue with LineageOS is that my phone feels like it's held together with duct tape. Stuff randomly breaks, it's awkward, and every few months when there's a firmware upgrade I have to factory reset and start all over again, which takes hours, and I'm always afraid I'm going to break something when I muck around in recovery mode.

   Using Ubuntu on a laptop is really not that hard; I don't feel like I'm missing much compared to either macOS or Windows. Why are open-source phones so hard??

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   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 17:38:30 UTC switching.social

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     @nolan

     This has bothered me too.

     It's *so* easy to install and use an alternative operating system on a computer, and far far more difficult to do the same with phones.

     Very weird.