The TL;DR version of this is that FLX1s is a Linux phone which has moved from being of interest to techie enthusiasts to working as an everyday phone - and computer - for a non-tech person.
[…]I describe myself as a "Linux enthusiast". I'm not a Linux novice, I've used it for about a decade. But I am only an end-user of Linux. I'm one of those people the more techie types are writing the software for, and I appreciate you all very much, and contribute (financially) where I can. I can't write software myself, I happily install software that is packaged ready to install, but drop out of the game if I have to "compile" it myself - I don't really understand what that means - let alone write it or code it myself.[…]
You might wonder why I got into Linux? I run my own small business. And I too frequently in the early days (it's 20 years old this year) got my fingers burned when big tech companies were able to hold me to ransom. One particular story that sticks in my mind - not that I'm bitter 😂 - is that we invested in Skype Phones and a Skype number for our telephony. And after Microsoft bought Skype, it decided it wasn't interested in going down that path, and a software update literally remotely bricked all the hardware we had purchased... I became determined I needed as far as possible, to understand, and to have control over, my own tech. And of course, to have nothing to do with Microsoft.
This version has no longer esim right? Only physical?
I'm a bit irked they went through the easier/lazier route of building Debian on top of the Halium android layer.
@iturnedintoanewt @tomenzgg You can use an eSIM adapter like the one from JMP - looks exactly like a SIM card.
Not much choice with the hardware available for a reasonable price.
What irks me more is that they basically killed Droidian with their FuriOS fork, when they could have continued contributing upstream.
Also, it's still possible to insert a physical eSIM and provision that one.