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1 Week Using the Jolla Phone (2026) | First Impressions

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I had a Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone many years ago :) I liked it better than Android at that time. It was so many years ago but I prefer Sailfish over Windows Phone.

Battery life is good but not excellent, I think most new Android will have better battery lifetime. I charge it to 90 % and it is usually around 40 - 50 % when I charge it the next day. However, the battery drains faster after a couple of days unless I restart it.

I have not tried and not looked for physical 2FA.

I have the orange model so I would say it stands out quite a lot.

With the work SIM card I have free calls, texts and data all over the world so I would bring it with me for that. I would bring it anyway to be sure that BankID works so I can transfer money to my card. I have not had any issue with that so far on the Jolla Phone but I would not want to be in Australia for a couple of weeks if there is an update of BankID that breaks it. Edit: I would also bring an Android so I could use Revolut, which is the only app that I have tried which doesn't work.

There is a inofficial Signal app and it works. I added it as a secondary device because it was some bug to add it as primary device, I don't know if that makes any difference. I also use Signal with one friend only so I don't know how group chats works.

Default browser has a major issue, it lags. I tried with Duck duck Go browser from F-droid and it does not lag. The default browser is based on an old version of Gecko (engine for Firefox) as I understand it, would be better if it was a newer version but I have not found anything that doesn't work with it.

I have never heard of Chipolo, so same as the 2FA I have not been looking for that or tried it.

I use the built in note taking app but I think it was one inofficial Nextcloud notes. I have been thinking of setting up Nextcloud at home and then I would try that.

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Rapid transition to electric company cars under 'Made-in-EU' strategy could generate 344,000 EU jobs by 2030, overcompensating current job losses at Volkswagen and other carmakers, study finds

The Clean Corporate Vehicles Regulation requires 45% of new car sales in large corporate fleets to be electric by 2030.

45 % BEV of new car sales seems low since it was 32 % last month and the BEV sales are increasing fast in Europe. With the current increase we could hit 45 % in the end of 2027.

The only problem is that many of the BEVs are from China instead of European brands.

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Norwegian Company Pitches 2,800-Mile Undersea Cable Linking Canada and Europe to Bypass the US

Cool more intercontinental connections are needed. Today there are surprisingly few connections between Europe and North America which is sensitive if Russia decide to sabotage it.

There is also another major fiber project from Norway. That will go across the artic towards Japan and China, I think it would also connect to north America but I'm not sure if that was Alaska or Canada.

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Linux For Your Grandma - A Linux guide for those that are not super techy

I looked on the topics of the video and all of them make sense. However, I think the biggest problem for average persons is that they don't care enough to watch a video that is 80 minutes long (if they even find it). Also, I'm not sure if video is the correct format since I prefer text and some pictures. But I'm not an average user :) for a grandma a video might be better, I don't know.

For feedback of the video itself, the parts where you show Cinnamon, Gnome and KDE could benefit from showing the screen more and how to navigate in the OS. If I try to imagine how an elderly person would feel about changing OS to Linux from using Windows for decades then I'm not sure watching does short glimpses would convince them that they can handle it.

Sorry if it sounds harsh, I'm trying to give constructive feedback. I think it is a nice initiative and from what I saw the topics are well chosen and you speak slowly and clearly.

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Post your deletions

I have not deleted so many apps and accounts, but I have stopped using them or reduced the usage.

Windows 10 -> Linux but Windows 10 is still installed on another disk so technically it is dual boot even if I have not used Windows for months.

Office -> Libre office

Gmail and Hotmail -> Protonmail and Posteo

Google maps -> Here maps and Comaps

Onenote -> Notesnook