Tolkien: "What if there was a magical artefact that let you communicate across long distances, but it was addictive and secretly spied on you and fed you disinformation and filled you with paralysing despair?"
Me: "That's a phone."
@quinsibell No, you're talking about an Android iPhone.
Phones, even smart ones, caused a lot less trouble before the iPhone came out, and the Android OS then got redesigned after iPhoneOS.
@riley @quinsibell I used to have one that just ran the normal ARMv4 port of Debian with an app for doing calls and SMS.
@jeremy_list Pity that these went out of fashion.
@jeremy_list I believe whatever is meant to run on PinePhone is fairly close to some kind of stock Ubuntu, FWIW. FairPhone is also supposed to have an Ubuntu Touch option, IIRC.
@jeremy_list Oh, and Kali Linux supports a bunch of (mostly obsolete, in order to have given kernel engineers all due time to figure drivers for the undocumented hardware out) Android phones.
@jeremy_list There was the Nokia N800 series. In its days, it was a weird thing that people had trouble finding a purpose for. In modern days of ubiquitous tracking, what it did makes a lot more sense.