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I'm more curious what he's switched to if not Apple.

He says in a reply:

Laptop, SSH, paper :). I wasn't a heavy mobile user in general and only got interested in cellphones when they became more PC-like. So with 3.5 years in F-Droid, I only have about 4-5 years of actual mobile phone usage. Coming from a more old-school unix environment, reverting back.

So he basically doesn't have a phone? That's pretty hardcore.

Actually not so much, I basically only use the phone on the move, 99% of the other things I do them in my laptop. I even do more laptop calls (skype, hangouts) than phone calls.

At least not a smartphone. That's my case as well, very happy with my dual-sim Nokia 216. The internet can always wait until I'm back home or at work.

for me personally smartphone is just more convenient than telling out laptop, opening it, waiting for start compared to smartphone always running at hand and seem by looking at statistics most of the people are in same boat and PC is dying

He probably doesn't use a smartphone, as some of us don't including myself, given the total impossibility to achieve decent privacy and data security under any mobile operating system.

I wonder what he thinks of the Pandora or the Pyra

There is now a reply where he explains he's more or less switching to just using his laptop for any computing tasks he would have done from his phone.

[The reply](https://freepo.st/post/xeipt6x9xu#comment-5l6f7qdlfk).

It really seems like he has a point. I definitely agree that they've become too centralized and rife with privacy issues.

Could be Ubuntu OS, or, more likely, an old school dumb phone.

The dumb phone would be less free than Android.

Yeah, but it probably wouldn't be used for much besides phone calls and maybe texts, as opposed to email, web browsing, etc. as well.

Ubuntu phone was discontinued. Sailfish more likely, I'd say.

The phone was, yes. Ubuntu touch is still alive and kicking as UBports, though. They just got OTAs working, too!

> don't you worry, I don't use any less free systems either

I think that answers that.

Note to downvoter: That wasn't sarcastic. That does answer that. Chaps like Boris wouldn't go from a relatively open platform like Android where they built an open source market for it and then go to a completely-walled-in garden like iOS where they don't have the power to run whatever they want.

And the answer is?

Note: the question is what did he switch to?

From the HN guidelines:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

my guess was jolla/sailfish

Probably a feature phone.

Jolla could be nice as well,if he could find one.

Possibly stopped using mobile devices?

Maybe just dumbphone, the rest can do laptop/PC.

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