I have a (blog) post on that - What's on my Phone in 2020.

For contact lists, I run a CalDAV server at home (Davical), but I'm not sure how to easily blacklist contacts from one source.

Depending on the make of your phone, it hopefully has an USB port. Nowadays, this USB port can often work as USB master too, so you can simply plug an USB hub into it and then hang a keyboard and mouse from it.

If the phone also has USB-C, it maybe even has HDMI-over-Thunderbolt-over-USB-C, and you maybe can use an USB-C -to-HDMI adapter to connect it to an HDMI display.

I am in a dual-phones situation myself between a wooden nookia and a huawei "smart". So, on the safe side still as only part of me is "Pwned". I don't have any Perl-related tips but here is my experience:

The first thing I learned was to search first the open-source https://www.f-droid.org before the usual app-stores. Secondly, I would make sure that the keyboard I use is not phoning home with my typing data to "improve" their algorithms. I am not sure if android standard keyboard is in this category but I changed it to something else anyway. I have also replaced the standard email app with one from the F-Droid repository. I have disabled all google maps and added open-source OpenStreetMap. As a browser I use firefox with uBlock-origin addon.

I have done some android development and I have discovered a very powerful way to access a phone when in "developer mode". This is the super-powerful adb. Plug your phone with usb, then adb can be used to do a lot on it, perhaps even doing backups, sending SMS, placing calls (i think yes). Additionally, in Linux one can mount the phone and view it as any other device. Bewarned that "developer mode" has its own "dangers" but it is not "rooted mode".

Edit: and remember, there is no way out with exorcisms or holymaries, once it's in, it's in.

Edit2: hehe there's already a module for wrapping adb: Android::ADB. Just get a long enough rope emmm usb cable and you are all set to have a transparent experience from the comfort of your shell. In lockdown, desktop is king.

bw, bliako

I don't know this one, but it seems to be based on Geany, which is a very nice compact but scalable editor.

The question has rather to be, what kind keyboard do you intend to use?

Unless you are dragging an external keyboard with you, you'll need to figure out how best to input CTRL sequences.

I'm personally using Emacs inside Termux with a standard touch keyboard supporting Swype-like input°. (at least half of my posts here are made from mobile with swipe typing)

Pressing the volume button up and down gives me ALT and CTRL sequences. Still not perfect, I might activate evil-mode in the future or try to activate "Doom Emacs" or "Space Emacs" which have a vim-philosophy.

Support for swiping in Termux is a bit cumbersome, you need to switch the keyboard mode to be able to use it and the text is only introduced after switching back.

°) the setting is called Glide-Typing in my Android. I'm using "Swype" here like "Nutella", it's actually a brand's name representative for a whole class of products.

the lack of the user concept is a big minus: there is something that can be done in this direction?

which browser can I use to protect my privacy and how to use it?

which file manager do you suggest, being simply and powerful? I'd like to simply decide which data will go in the SD card too.

which remote access software must I use (able to do RDP and ssh connections)?

there is something to check and control my privacy in a unified program? The First Time Access was a dread: fingerprints, google account details, blood type.. :)

I was unable to spot the keyboard and video plugs.. ;) no, seriously: can be connected in some way to became an emergency pc?

If I have the will to try to program an app where can I start and with which tools?

For "click-and-knock-over-the-coffepot" type of remoting, or if you'll use it frequently, I recommend an OTG adapter for connecting an external keybord and/or mouse.

I can't blame him. Makes for good work / life balance. And I'll bet he gets 2-3-4 days per charge.

I recently moved to my first smartphone only after I ran over my Nokia brick with the lawnmower. Work paid $300 for the phone and they pay for most of the service, so I really couldn't fight it anymore. (My Nokia was like $7 / month.)

I miss the Nokia, but multi-factor authentication is just way easier with a smartphone.

Cheers,

Brent


-- Yeah, I'm a Delt.

And I'll bet he gets 2-3-4 days per charge.

My dad has a really cheap smartphone that one day started to drain its battery (less than 12 hours per charge), a replacement battery did not help. He bought a new one, and because he still needs to transfer some stuff, he kept the old one and put it into flight mode, i.e. all radios (Bluetooth, WLAN, 2G/3G/3G) off. He occasionally uses it as an alarm clock, and easily gets three to four days per charge. Granted, an offline smartphone isn't that smart, and I expected more battery drain from the display or CPU-intensive apps, but this one drains the battery via one of the radios.

Perhaps I should try to scan it for malware, maybe there is something on it that tries phoning home all times.

Nokia brick

Yeah, my old Nokia 5130 brick needed one tank stop at the charger per week, and that's with a really tiny battery compared to modern smartphones. My Samsung GT-i8200N, still my first smartphone, is good for more than one day on a cheap aftermarket battery and with light use (i.e. one or two phone calls per day, 15 min or less surfing the web, reading five mails). Charging over night every night was something to be learned after the Nokia, but you get used to it.

I think it's like switching from a Otto or Diesel car to an electric car. You charge slowly whenever you don't need the car instead of doing a tank stop / high current charge when the tank / battery is empty.

A note on my phone usage: I don't really need a cell phone or a smartphone. It's mainly an emergency system, so that I can call for help from anywhere, and to be reachable for my family and a few important people. Occasionally, I use it as a camera, as a torch light, to take notes, play musik or look up something on Wikipedia or Google. But most times, I just carry it around like my keys or my swiss army knife. My main means of communication are my PC and my landline telephone.

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)