Comment by spudlyo

5 hours ago

This account has three comments on HN, all of them essentially the same type of /e/OS advocacy pablum.

"I wanted to add a perspective from an LLM sockpuppet, because I know you're all not deeply cynical and mistrustful yet."

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theK  5 hours ago

My account has more comments than that and I share OC's opinion and experience. I've been daily driving /e/ since its FP3 era and lately the experience has been really well polished. Even things that had been "tricky" in the past, like Android auto integration, now work seamlessly.

  • em-bee  5 hours ago

    same here, except for banking apps. the one i am supposed to use now doesn't work.

    • aidenn0  2 hours ago

      My banking app doesn't even work on the last 3 android phones I tried because it wants a very up-to-date OS which basically means non-Pixel phones more than 2 years old need not apply.

    • Contortion  3 hours ago

      I had this problem and it turned out to be an upstream issue with MicroG which was eventually patched. If you have an error message you can search for existing issues on /e/OS' gitlab/forum.

      Revolut stopped working for me for a while with the error that the bootloader wasn't recognised and rooted phones aren't supported. After about a month an OS update solved it.

    • jdcaron  4 hours ago

      As long as banking works with web browsers, I think the future looks good for this usage, but I could de-bank my phone and still have plenty of useful things to do with it.

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benou  3 hours ago

Tbh I am using /e/OS as my daily driver and I fully agree, it just works. Bonus points for the Nextcloud integration which I can tie to my self-hosted Nextcloud instance.

I do not understand all the negativity, I think it is a solid alternative in the ecosystem, and choice is a good thing.

littlestymaar  10 minutes ago

Happy owner of an /e/OS phone for the past 3 years here. I'm going to replace it for a Fairphone in the near future because I broke the camera on mine, and I'll take the /e/OS version without question.

odeckmyn  5 hours ago

so what? Am i supposed to comment on subjects know nothing about ?

  • cogman10  5 hours ago

    It's pretty strange that the only subject you seem to have expertise in is e/os. Over a year and that's the only thing you've felt comfortable in discussing?

    • kevstev  3 hours ago

      I think this is behavior that should be encouraged online. Staying quiet and letting the experts talk to increase the signal to noise ratio is a GOOD thing. OP has hands on experience with something that is at least for now quite niche.

      I used to only really speak about node.js topics because that was what I had real fighting experience with, at a scale beyond what most webdevs had ever seen. Those were also my most upvoted posts by far.

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    • odeckmyn  5 hours ago

      and so what? should I ask for permission to discuss something? it's crazy how omniscient people are aggressive on the internet. Is that your normal behaviour IRL??

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