There are actually some flip phones with Google Maps or alternatives available, but using it on that screen size could be a bit complicated! I remember looking at some of them when I was deciding on a new phone. A lot of them run on something called KaiOS, which is Linux based but not Android. They have their own app store of basic apps that can be used on it.

Yeah, the banking and things like that probably wouldn’t work well or at all. My previous phones were all de-Googled android, and a lot of that type of thing didn’t work without Google Play Services. This phone is also a custom version of Android without the Google bits, so it would probably be the same issue.

The photo sharing I’m afraid I don’t have a lot of ideas on, other than what you mentioned. It is possible to add non Mudita apps, so you might be able to get a camera app working. I know the Olympus/OM Systems app (the camera brand I use) wouldn’t work on my other phones due to having the Google services stripped out of them though.

It’s pretty great, as long as you’re willing to use it the way it’s designed. The camera isn’t great, and the screen refresh rate is too low to play video. I often carry a small mirrorless camera around as well, so I don’t really need that! I have it almost entirely stock other than adding a podcast app and a better notes app. The e-ink display is really nice for reading, and even though I prefer physical books, there are a lot of free e-books available!

Your mention of people commenting about your camera reminded me of it, because I’ve had the chance to talk to a lot of people about digital minimalism because of that. It seems I run into quite a number of people who are either fed up with the constant attention grabbing from their phone, or realize they have an addiction to it.

I found myself using my smartphone so little anymore that when it wore out I bought a Mudita Kompakt instead. It’s not quite to the level of a flip phone, (I wanted something that I could still read e-books on.) but I’m still amazed by how many comments I get on it when I have it out for something. The four or five days without charging is great!

How is it coming along? I’ve heard it’s fairly buggy at times, but that might be outdated information by now. I keep meaning to try it, but I always end up falling down the KSP rabbit hole when I want to do space stuff!

One of them was me! ;-) I’ve actually been playing a good bit the last month or so, but the last week it’s been a lot of hours, usually with the stream running on another screen!

One of my favorite games! My spouse and I both got have quite a number of hours into it.

Roughly once a week on my two main machines, or whenever I install or uninstall something.

Yeah, 3% of mine was new releases! 8% was from 1-7 years, and 89% was 8+. It’s not because of the cost of games or upgrades though, I just don’t care about most of the new games that come out. I already have games I like to play!

Yeah, that is odd that they didn’t do any more there. It would be nice if they did something, it’s not like it’s there’s a lot of extra work to release the songs digitally! SNW only got a season 1 and 3 soundtrack release so far too. They did do the Subspace Rhapsody record though, so that was nice.

It looks like another nice steelbook! Hopefully they continue doing them for the next two seasons as well. It’s odd that they’ve ignored physical soundtrack releases for SNW though, especially since they’ve done a few others.

That controller will be an easy buy for me! I don’t do a lot of couch gaming because I don’t like standard controllers, but I’ll happily use one of these. The Steam Machine and VR headset aren’t that exciting to me, but I’m sure there’s a market for them.

Sounds pretty fun! It might be another good game to jump into on the Steam Deck when you have a little bit of time. I’m curious to see how the multiplayer will be.

Apparently in later Discovery they actually used a starship, the USS Federation, as the Federation headquarters. It appears the Athena is just for the academy though.

It’s rare that I find a game that I want to buy anymore, so I’m probably often in that percentage. I’m still regularly playing games I’ve owned for over ten years now, and usually don’t see a lot of reason to keep buying more. I did buy two this year, one on launch and one on a sale. I also picked up a few DLCs for two of my long-time favorites.

I remember this post! I ended up buying the game afterward, and although I don’t have a huge number of hours on it, I did find it pretty good.

Fortunately the WRC rights went back to NACON after that one game, so they won’t be affected!

Actually they don’t! The rights went back to NACON a few months ago. Good timing, although I know not everyone likes the older WRC games either.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/fia-world-rally-championship-wrc-games-return-to-nacon/

I use PopOS because I have a System76 laptop. It runs well on my hardware. I’m allowed to complain about things without some shit telling me to just “use another distro”. If I wanted to run another distro I’d run another distro. Lordy…

I originally responded to you with a suggestion that I hoped would be helpful, not knowing what your experience level or reason for using the distro was. You responded by being rude and insulting. I hope you have a good day!

Because you just complained about them not releasing updates? Work on the underlying distribution is most likely going to be slow for a while longer since they’re continuing to work on Cosmic. I’m sure you have your reasons for doing it this way, but you’re already using a different DE than Pop comes with. Why not put your DE of choice on another distribution where you can get the normal system updates you want?