Thank you for the home.

That is correct, currently, moving to a linux phone will lose you more than what you’re losing with Google and Apple changes.

Apps are just part of the problem. Running a full linux OS on a phone with all the normal mobile phone capabilities is also an exercise in frustration. Taking Ubuntu Touch as an example, the OS has been around since 2011, was released in 2014 and it’s list of approved phones is still minuscule. If you’re a person on VZW, that list grows even smaller as VoLTE is problematic enough to be considered impossible to get working reliably.

I truly hope that the linux phone landscape shapes up but in it’s current form, it’s actually losing ground as it’s development is slower than the hardware development and at it’s current rate, will never be a viable option.

Thank you for starting with a contrary clickbait sentence, then immediately following it up with a confirmation of my comment that linux is not suitable as a mobile OS.

That’s funny I’ve had several Android apps run fine under Linux mobile OSes.

Several? Well, consider me corrected, it’s clearly ready for prime time.

There are no realistic linux options for your phone. These memes are pipe dreams by people that haven’t actually looked at how utterly incapable linux currently is at powering a smart phone for normal daily use and how these apps that they’re complaining about android and apple are removing won’t run on the linux phone in the first place.

I turned my expended at4 into a floor lamp.

BOMBSHELL FACT: I DON’T WATCH CLICKBAIT CONSPIRACY VIDEOS

Unfortunately, there’s not enough info to help without risk of mistake. Do you live in a single home structure or shared(condo, apartment, duplex, etc.)? What’s the age of the structure? Is your breaker panel on either side of the wall you’re working on? Is it an exterior or interior wall?

When you say stud/wire detector, what do you actually own? There’s no device I know of that combines voltage detection with a stud finder, so I’m guessing your device is a stud finder marketed to also find other buried elements.

If you’re working with a traditional stud finder, a lot of things can give off a false positive, like insulation, lath and plaster construction, pipes, a second skin of drywall and even an exceptionally thick coat of compound.

To have the best chance at not messing this up, I would suggest making an inspection hole. You can either purchase a cheap boroscope cam that you connect to your phone or laptop and make small, easily patched holes or a larger hole to insert your phone. If you can remove your baseboard and replace it, you can hide the holes behind the baseboard without having to patch them when you’re done.

Depending on the age of the structure, you can often make assumptions on how the wires are run in the cavities but you don’t want to risk hitting something important.

An unexpectedly great song.

As a DAV, please don’t. It’s no better than soccer moms driving around with matte black American flags all over their 4Runner or Wrangler. You are swaying absolutely nobody.

If you want to help the DAV out there, donate to the community, give some time to the VA hospitals or retirement homes, help those that have fallen on hard times. Simply wearing a shirt in a particular location will make not the tiniest bit of difference in any of our lives.

You could make a sandwich in your lap and it wouldn’t be as distracting as scrolling social media on your phone.

Beware of what? It’s no different than any other instance and capable of being subscribed to, scrolled past or blocked.

Stop advertising for them and let them have their federated echo chamber, just like the communists, socialists, leftists and others have.

It’s someone running a social media bot farm. Each one of those phones is being used to manipulate communities by posting content that’s being sold as from a real human being.

It’s a device that allows your township to record water usage remotely(that’s why it’s got an FCC id). Without it, the meter would either need to be on the outside of the house or you’d need to let the meter reader into your house monthly to record the usage.

Great sales pitch but you’re lacking a bit:

“If you enter through the side door, you won’t be able to cook anything because it defederated from the kitchen and if you use the most popular door, you can’t sleep because the bedrooms have blocked you.”

It’s hexbear. Those of us that understand that’s their baseline blocked the instance long ago.

6. No US Politics.

Please don’t post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online

Another interesting phone not available in the US.

What an incredibly cool concept.

Big milk did a number on people’s idea of what’s healthy.