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Cake day: May 30th, 2025

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  • Try to focus not on what others do, but on what YOU do. YOU have an actual impact on non human animals, and by not treating them as though they are worthless or consumable, you are causing less harm. You are not contributing to the ice cold panic they feel when they realize they are the next in line to get butchered, or any other short or long term suffering they go through. That is worth a lot, to the individuals spared from the suffering.

    Don’t compare yourself to evil people, or uninformed people. Focus on yourself and the good/neutral you keep doing every day. You are kind, thoughtful, compassionate. What you do matters, even if the impact seems small compared to all the suffering.



  • That makes sense. On Ubuntu Touch (if you find a compatible device) you could just delete the apps you don’t want and keep the rest.

    Two issues I can think of is updating the apps that you do keep without the app store - I’m not sure there’s an easy way to do that. Maybe transfer the new package via cable or ssh (as you’ve also uninstalled the browser) and install it via the command line? The other issue could be uninstalling system apps. I haven’t tried that myself, but I have heard of others doing it and breaking things.




  • While your model may not be supported now, it may be in the future. I would join some of the communities that make custom roms and operating systems and lurk a bit to see if someone is doing a port to your phone and are near the stage where they need testers.

    Look at deGoogle guides to see what you can do to make your phone safer in the mean time. Every little bit can help you be more secure.




  • I daily drive Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 5. It’s not without quirks, but I like the experience. Many practical and nice native apps, Android app support through Waydroid, banking and things that would require Google Play verification I solve through the browser. Fairly good battery life, VoLTE is solved for the FP5 and some other models (which has been an issue with many Linux phones) and the community is very active solving issues and helping each other day and night.