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.

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.

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.

Thanks for your thoughts, tuckerm. I didn’t create it as an authority on the matter but rather as someone that has gotten very worried about how hard it is to get info that isn’t blended in a corporate blender.

My most recent example was realizing over 3/4 of my regular forums are owned by verticalscope. The sweeping changes across all the sites were rubbing me the wrong way. Trying to find active forums that hadn’t sold to them has proven next to impossible, however.

Which led to my curiosity; could we groupthink a useful database of sites and resources that hadn’t yet been absorbed by one of these conglomerates?

I’ve started work on a sister site that I hope to use to make keeping track of solutions easier if my attention span permits.

Piessants.