I think huawei will be Ok. They’ve been successfully navigating this for a few years now. The Chinese market will continue to do its own thing without google. Just like until now.

For that kind of stuff I just use Gadgetbridge which is amazing at figuring ways to pair with your Bluetooth tracker/smart watch/band/headset/about anything they can figure. Their devices supported list is… Really long these days.

Sure. As long as you don’t plan on using anything much online with it. Any connection that triggers a captcha will be un-passable without play services installed.

So not only google is trying yo crush fdroid, they’re also trying to crush anything without google services. I really wish the EU moved immediately on this one…

Thanks a lot for this, i think I’ll try this first!

Thank you very much for this reply. I didn’t need to stick to claude or openclaw at all, I definitely don’t want to give any model any free reign over my data. It’s just the ones I’ve seen mentioned the most, I guess. But I’d like to be able to run it all locally, and only on command. Your answer is exactly what I needed. I’m gonna study carefully the options you provided, and I might go from here. Again, thanks!

Thanks! I have an understanding of being able to run these models as LLM you can chat with, using tools like ollama or GPT4All. My question would be, how do I go from that to actually do things for me, handle files, etc. As it stands, if I run any of these locally, it’s just able to answer offline questions, and that’s about it…how about these “skills”, where it can go fetch files, or go find an specific URL, or say a summary of what a youtube video is about based on what’s being said in it?

Thanks! I have an understanding of being able to run these models as LLM you can chat with, using tools like ollama or GPT4All. My question would be, how do I go from that to actually do things for me, handle files, etc. As it stands, if I run any of these locally, it’s just able to answer offline questions, and that’s about it…how about these “skills”, where it can go fetch files, or go find an specific URL, or say a summary of what a youtube video is about based on what’s being said in it?

How about the Windows app that’s just the RDP desktop app for azure or 365 desktops? Naming it the Windows app gotta be the dumbest idea I’ve seen in a very long while.

Sorry I asked incorrectly…I thought Jetpac provided programmable sims, so I was asking. There seems to be some sort of hybrid SIMs, which behave like an eSIM and can download the whole eSIM data onto them, and then go around using them on a physical SIM tray. I’ve just heard of this and I"m not exactly sure how reliable those are.

Can you get a physical esim from any provider and install any esims from any other provider in it? How can you go about this?

I know…I guess it’s just wishful thinking for the future. I’ve gotten a 2nd hand pixel pro last year. That’s…a lot of storage and memory, just about as much as my laptop. Should last me for a while (I hope it won’t physically break for any reason!), so I won’t immediately ride this Motorola wave anyway.

Lenovo’s Motorola, if you ask me. I don’t think there’s much left at all from original Motorola. But they had a decent track record with their recent phones, AFAIK. Not that I’ve owned any from Motorola.

While I’m happy that it’s Motorola, i just wish someone like Fairphone also bites the bullet of investing in a proper encryption chip that’s acceptable to Grapheneos. I’d like to see more or a trifecta (duofecta?) of trustworthy OS and sustainable/committed manufacturer.

We shouldn’t use archive.is anymore I’m afraid. I don’t know a good alternative, but archive.today links are no longer trustworthy.

Grapheneos on Pixel 9 fold. Runs like a charm. You have a normal phone by default for all your normal daily stuff, but it’s ready for all the advanced things you might want anytime.

Doesn’t this sound awfully similar to the Mini disc technology? The discs were only writable when heated by a laser. They were pretty impressive for the time… But not very fast. Especially when writing.

-How to setup your private spaces and profiles will be the biggest pain in mental considerations. This is one of the biggest differences allowed by Graphene. Also, not all apps like to be on a secondary profile (I’m looking at you, intune). My setup so far is a main google-less profile with f-droid, obtanium and all my foss apps…an insular ‘work’ profile, where I have all my banking and more or less secure apps, a ‘hidden profile’ (is that the name?), where I have a bit less trustworthy apps, food delivery, uber, gmaps etc (the difference between the work and the hidden profile, is work can be paused manually, but will keep working if you want it to in the background while the screen is off…while the hidden profile closes a few minutes after turning the screen off). Then secondary profiles for absolute garbage untrustworthy apps that I know try to gather as much info from you as possible. -Rather than obtanium, I prefer f-droid when possible. Better general oversight of the apps. I- think thunderbird can be set to check more frequently. I haven’t noticed any missing emails that get downloaded as I open. But maybe I don’t check my email so frequently. -Does Molly work on its own, without having to use some third-party notification setup such as ntfy?

I prefer f-droid builds whenever possible. Some github apks will still include google libraries, or not quite mention where they connect. F-droid goes the extra step of checking all of these for you, and give you warnings of any unintended connectivity for example. They’re quite strict for a reason. And I appreciate it.

Sigh. When in doubt…reboot. Seems the evaluation doesn’t necessary update or re-evaluate after some changes to the qualities/formats have been done. But after I rebooted, it immediately imported the files.