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Purism is a fucking scam company. Look intoFairPhonre or just do what most of us do: get a Pixel and reinstall without gapps
I don't think so. They providing GNU/Linux phone and invest money into mobile development for Linux. I would not recommend buying their Librem (better buy PinePhone Pro instead if you want GNU/Linux), but they definitely not a scam company.
I paid $2,000 for a laptop. It broke the same week it arrived. I returned it. They said they'd give me my money back.
That was about a year ago. I'm still waiting for my refund. They keep say it's coming soon and won't give me an ETA.
That's not a scam?
Wow, that's sad to hear. You should have started with this :)
Ah yes, Librem, 100$ aliexpress phone specs for flagship prices lol
Well I got the murena one so that is a degoolged phone
Hows the experience with the phone? What have you noticed can be used and cant as far as app usage? (Ie games, social apps, etc)
Well this one uses replacements for all the google back end stuff and a app lounge that gives a privacy rating and promotes foss apps. Since I don't Facebook, Instagram, twitter, and I only used reddit the website, I don;t know how well those app run it. All the app I do use run fine. It does come with a Gb of cloud storage and a private email run by the developers.
That sounds pretty good, not sure if you used it for navigation, but if you did how is that on the phone? Does it run hot or average temp?
It works, the apps are ok. MAgic earth is considered the best one for open streets maps but is had old design. Like you have to manually download each map chunk, like the whole of Texas and Oklahoma if you travel in both states. Also it is not that complete when its own addressing so you need to search in a browser for addresses. And the maps don't auto update and it won't download over cellular by default.
Ive tried magic earth while traveling. Though the ui is nice compared to osmand, i agree that there are extra steps. Sometimes i had to input the address of the place i found to an address to coordinate converter to plug that into Magic earth. I get the auto update maybe to save resources while using the app or prevent the app from rebooting/refreshing map after update.
Thanks for the info.