Worth also mentioning IodéOS alongside CalyxOS and GrapheneOS as alternative 'de-Googled' phone OSs. Similar de-Googling to /e/OS, but without the cloud eco-system, and without the unnecessary forks of upstream apps: Iodé ships the upstreams and keeps them up-to-date via F-Droid. Iodé seem to have learned from /e/OS / Murena's mistakes :)
Posts by petefoth
11 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jun 2016
Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare
Thursday 13th February 2025 08:19 GMT
Re: WAG
Those services were part of the original point of /e/OS - to provide a 'complete eco-system out-of-the-box` for non-techie users, as an alternative to the Google eco-system of GMail, Google Drive, Photos, Calendar & Contacts sync. As someone who knows enough to set up and use your own 'eco-system', you are not really part of the /e/OS target audience
Riding in Sidecar: How to get a Psion online in 2023
Wednesday 4th January 2023 09:14 GMT
Re: Very interesting
> You can get PsiWin from the Internet Archive:
AKA "My first Windows program" :) I worked for a small software house who got the job of implementing PsiWin for Psion Software.I spent a lot of time learning about the workings of the Windows, SIBO and EPOC OSs, having previously worked on MS-DOS and embedded software. I got a good deal of online help from the Cix conferencing system of blessed memory.
For a while, when PsiWIn was on sale in Dixons (ancestor of PC-World) they would have a display setup of a PC, running PsiWin, connected to a Series 3. One of my colleagues who was familiar with outstanding bugs, would walk up and crash the system using a small number of keystrokes. Happy, innocent days :)
Thunderbird is coming to Android – in K-9 Mail form
Friday 17th June 2022 06:01 GMT
Re: /e/
/e/'s Mail app is a fork of K9. Like all forks, and like /e/'s other forked apps, (Calendar, Message, Notes etc.), it lags behind upstream when it comes to bug fixes and new features. On my /e/ devices, I just install the upstreams. Or I make a custom build with the upstreams in place of the forks.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
