Linux Phones

Don't get me wrong, LineageOS is great, I use it myself. However, LineageOS is primarily made as a way to still receive feature updates on phones no longer supported by the manufacturer. This means that they don't do things like switch DNS checks from Google to someone else, for example.

No uptick unfortunately.

I mean, you can run APKs on desktop Linux, so I don’t see why not. Plenty of emulators, but also other options like WayDroid, a compatibility layer, or Anbox which puts android in to a container and then merges the system services.

Easily for sure, but the problem is more with securely. First of all, I saw another commenter said anbox is a choice, but atp anbox is dead, the repo is archived and to my knowledge, there is no big fork for it yet. Okay let move on to the next candidate, waydroid, it is good for game/simple app without account etc: things that are not important(so low security requirements). Why? Because waydroid turn off a lot of android security mechanisms in order to achieve their goal of integration android in linux. This make waydroid inherently less secure than real android. Also, if you are installing apk app with stricter requirements check like bank app, they will mostly not going to work. In fact, you don't want to install anything important anyway on waydroid because of the security issues mentioned above.

A Linux phone would definitely benefit from being able to run Android apps but Huawei seems to be doing fine with HarmonyOS and as far as I can tell that doesn't run APKs anymore.

You can, with waydroid. It runs nicely and is performant but rather underfeatured (no GPS access/emulation!)

Every project starts small.

gaming, video editing, CAD, streaming, DJing, music production

Those aren't small niche user groups, though.

Busted! That's me. Dammit.

That's a lot of users.

Videoconferencing while multitasking. Like online TTRPG and the like. You need the screen real estate. But once you can plug your phone on a dock with monitor, keyboard and mouse, that's gone.

Which is something I never understood.

I mean I knew the internet was never anonymous. Even back in the early 2000s I was a moderator on a forum and that meant I could see their IPs! I was surprised since before I became a mod on those beautiful old PHP forums I had no idea they could do that. But you also could ping sites and see their IP and their country of location. All that stuff.

But at the same time it still felt a lot more anonymous since you were never immediately known, and as long as you kept your personal details to yourself you were gold.

But the first thing that really got me creeped out about privacy was when I read an article (I think it was on cracked.com, but that was in the late 2000s) about how some online MMORPGS such as WOW were implementing anticheat software that would require them to scan your computer for cheating programs...

I was rightly freaked out. I never played WOW and spent very little time on any MMORPG but to me even back then that was the line in the sand. You dont touch my drives. Period!

Now what these people would want exceeds that, and it will make everything more insecure for everyone. It is just disgusting.

technically. Just find two search terms with approximate values that you know at literally any point within the graph and you can take a decent stab at it. Combing through articles could offer that information