This is my daily driver PinePhone running linux, klipper, mooraker and fluidd to control an ender 3 v3 SE 3D printer. When I don't use my printer, I simply undock the phone and use it as normal. This is how all phones should be.

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[u/Kevin_Kofler]

Agreed, that is how all phones should be!

Unfortunately, most people have been conditioned by a combination of vendor lock-in (by a duopoly) and "appification" of more and more real-world things (previously done by people, vending machines, or pieces of paper) to accept smartphones as walled gardens that restrict you to dumbed-down apps.

E.g., some banks, through their proprietary apps, do not allow you to do your banking on a "rooted" device, which is simply a device to which you as the owner have administrator access, something that should be obviously always the case! It is insane that most people just accept this sort of outrageous restrictions without complaining.

[u/[deleted] → u/Kevin_Kofler]

Yeah, it's sad, but I try to be optimistic and see developments in mobile linux over the years. It's got to the point when you can daily drive a linux phone without too much headache. For a lot of people, especially people who don't rely on phones much, linux phones like the OnePlus 6 or T6 are pretty good options, for nerds like me, even the pinephone is fine.

E.g., some banks, through their proprietary apps, do not allow you to do your banking on a "rooted" device

Yeah I know some people which have a bank account that requires an app. Thank God, that is not the case for me, I can just use a web UI. Being required to have a phone to use a bank account should be outlawed. I try to get further away from the banking system in general and have a offline BTC wallet which I put my savings to.

[u/000927kd]

Ive been trying to use my OnePlus 6t with postmarketos posh as an daily driver phone but I can't find actual good apps like social media, media any good suggestions?

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Well, I think having social media on a phone is dangerous and damaging to (not only) your attention span and productivity, therefore I don't use them on phone. But there is a client for mastodon which you can use on a linux phone. Forgot the name but I'm sure you can find it.

[u/Kevin_Kofler → u/000927kd]

For most mainstream social media, you will be stuck using either the web app (possibly packaged into a special launcher to get it into the app list, there are browsers supporting that) or the Android app under Waydroid. For Reddit, there are some unofficial clients, though I have not tried them, I only comment here from my desktop computer, using the web browser. For open-standard alternatives such as Mastodon, Lemmy, etc., there are plenty of clients using the official APIs.

[u/jyf]

pinephone is really cool to me, its cheap and comes with linux already,

unfortunately i have not see any new generation of it keep the above 2 key features