<![CDATA[I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board.]]>I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board.

One of my goals for my first year was to improve the board's diversity, and I am pretty darned happy with how that is turning out.

I have also helped drive forward some important policy-related stuff.

Let's see what this year brings.

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> pmOS is great but no support for new phones.

Yes, which doesn't worry me massively, as nothing I do really demands a cutting edge phone.

> FuriOS

No, not tried one.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116406874192416580https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116406874192416580Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:38:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:38:01 GMT]]>@edavies Or a cellular modem / Mi-Fi. But yes, that kind of thing.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116406870455281965https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116406870455281965Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:38:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:14:24 GMT]]>@neil pmOS is great but no support for new phones.

FuriOS and their phones look cool. You seen those?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.arkadi.one/users/tootbrute/statuses/01KP74CJ46ZNMZM8YJ5G3KVBXVhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.arkadi.one/users/tootbrute/statuses/01KP74CJ46ZNMZM8YJ5G3KVBXVTue, 14 Apr 2026 23:14:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:50:26 GMT]]>@neil By “connected and non-connected” do you mean something like wandering around with a stock Android or iOS device, or even a smart-enough “feature phone“ in your pocket but doing everything which needs any privacy at all through a Linux device tethered to it?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://functional.cafe/users/edavies/statuses/116405267739810414https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://functional.cafe/users/edavies/statuses/116405267739810414Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:50:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:33:57 GMT]]>@h3artbl33d @neil yes, exactly. Which is why I loudly say someone needs to make a compatible device almost any time I get an opportunity. Because I've read IEEE 1789 and have no desire to keep putting refresh rates in my eyeballs and yet. But just this once, instead of that rant, I was aiming for offline mode and data sideload support in foss apps rants. 🙃

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/d_rift/statuses/116404967016658514https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/d_rift/statuses/116404967016658514Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:33:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:28:00 GMT]]>@d_rift @neil

You can use for that. It completely isolates components through IOMMUs (and others), meaning that if you disable mobile connectivity, WIFi, BT or enable the airplane mode, the hardware is actually off.

Currently there is no device with an e-ink display that is supported by GrapheneOS. That is not due to development capabilities of the project, but solely due to unavailable hardware that meets the requirements. Can't build a proper and safe home on quicksand, just as you can't build a secure OS on insecure hardware.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://exquisite.social/users/h3artbl33d/statuses/116404943607929614https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://exquisite.social/users/h3artbl33d/statuses/116404943607929614Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:28:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:21:35 GMT]]>Neil Brown Thank you! F-droid is doing really important work!]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hub.volse.no/item/7f06233c-c3c0-4c2b-8a04-07b76f488058https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hub.volse.no/item/7f06233c-c3c0-4c2b-8a04-07b76f488058Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:21:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:19:02 GMT]]>@neil I'm very interested in offline or only occasionally file sharing devices. After my last eink phone had malware problems, I don't want to let less than grapheneos on the net for mobile personally, but eink is so good for me... slowly exploring how much personal use I can shunt over to offline boox eink devices.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/d_rift/statuses/116404908343511107https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/d_rift/statuses/116404908343511107Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:19:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:12:26 GMT]]>@kbm0 Let's hope...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116404882410359182https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116404882410359182Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:12:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:12:13 GMT]]>If I had to put my money on something other than GrapheneOS, it would probably be postmarketOS.

But I was pretty impressed with Ubuntu Touch when I tried it again recently after a few years.

I've also wondered about a better separation of connected and non-connected mobile devices, and whether that would be worth exploring.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116404881557257245https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116404881557257245Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:12:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:11:52 GMT]]>@neil

I keep hoping for a reliable, moderately priced Linux-based phone coming out every time I have to start phone shopping.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/cynical13/statuses/116404880205206008https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/cynical13/statuses/116404880205206008Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:11:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:11:22 GMT]]>@richardibbo Ha!

Of all the mobile Linux environments that I have used, I struggled the most with Sailfish, but I genuinely hope that it turns out well!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116404878231633745https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116404878231633745Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:11:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:10:41 GMT]]>@neil Yeah, just yesterday I was telling my wife that we'd most surely be running Linux on our PCs in 2035, but Android on our mobiles... not so sure.

Hopefully we'll run a FOSS Linux distro too (and sooner) but I'll be grateful to you and the communities anyway. I didn't know you were in the F-Droid board, amazing work! 🥰

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jandi/statuses/116404875536492037https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jandi/statuses/116404875536492037Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:10:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:10:14 GMT]]>@neil F-Droid is great, thanks for doing this! I hope it doesn't end up getting completely clobbered by whatever happens in September.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/kbm0/statuses/116404873788754615https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/kbm0/statuses/116404873788754615Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:10:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:08:59 GMT]]>I'm used to OpenSuse and Tumbleweed. Should be easy for me to understand 🙂

@neil

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/richardibbo/statuses/116404868812281030https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/richardibbo/statuses/116404868812281030Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:08:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:06:05 GMT]]>@richardibbo I hope that you get on with Sailfish better than I did!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116404857467896252https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116404857467896252Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:06:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:05:38 GMT]]>I've ordered a Jolla phone. Not sure about privacy with Sailfish OS but I'll find out when my phone arrives. 5G phone 50 Mpixel camera. Uses zypper to update the phone.

@neil

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/richardibbo/statuses/116404855674942987https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/richardibbo/statuses/116404855674942987Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:05:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:58:11 GMT]]>I must admit that, thanks to Google, I am not massively optimistic about the future of Android and Free software.

I'm also spending some of my volunteering time on non-Android mobile Linux projects, because I think that they are increasingly important and necessary.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116404826385312640https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116404826385312640Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:58:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:55:53 GMT]]>@neil o7

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/kkremitzki/statuses/116404817307786581https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/kkremitzki/statuses/116404817307786581Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:55:53 GMT