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1. 3036e4+2X[view] [source] 2025-09-16 10:15:59
>>wicket+(OP)
My next phone will almost certainly be two phones. One cheap and super standard Android phone to just run banking apps and similar that insists on Google Play etc. Locked down and boring, turned off most of the time. Then a second phone for everything else (terminal with sshd, emacs, emulators, media players ... the stuff that allows a phone to be the general purpose computer it should be).

Looks increasingly unlikely that there will be convenient ways to have the best of both those worlds in a single device. For now it is somewhat possible with Android, but the experience keeps getting worse.

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2. lordna+131[view] [source] 2025-09-16 11:13:29
>>3036e4+2X
Could you maybe run a hypervisor with both operating systems? Like one does on a server?

Or will that munch your battery?

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3. 3036e4+A51[view] [source] 2025-09-16 11:36:08
>>lordna+131
Official Android with Google Play and all the things some apps require will almost certainly refuse to run if a hypervisor is detected. Maybe someone could get it to work, but it would be a struggle to stay ahead of whatever new security checks are added to the OS and apps. The point of having one perfectly normal phone would be to not have to worry about any of that.
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