"How I Made a Minimalist Dumb Phone With Free Software"
✅ LineageOS
❎ Google Apps
✅ F-droid
✅ Antennapod
✅ Voice
✅ Fossify apps
✅ Kvaesitso launcher
I'm not gonna lie, this "dumb phone" is awkwardly close to how my daily driver has looked for the better part of a decade.
I don't think Dumb Phone means what they think it means.
Lmao "I didn't install the Google Play Store so my phone is now a minimalist dumbphone" ????
Probably "dumb" in the sense it doesm't actively spy on you. Which is a god-awful definition of dumb.
Personally, I'd go with non-malicious, shortened to non-mal which basically loops back to "normal".
I know, right? I guess they mean "free of distracting bloat".
"made" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, they "modified" it.
Yeah, the honest title would be "I evicted Google and I can just use my phone like I want now".
So its lineage OS with a minimalist launcher. This is click bait.
I mean, it's on HowToGeek, so I'll generously think of it as onboarding another few people to custom ROMs...
I "made" a "dumb phone" like that too, using a normal Android, Universal Android Debloater, FDroid, Fossify and the Simple Launcher.
For my next project, I'll turn my laptop into a typewriter by disconnecting the WiFi.
Sounds low effort! The real way of turning your laptop into a typewriter, of course, is to install Linux without a desktop environment and run an editor from command line /s
At least the author of the article could be arsed flashing a custom ROM 😉