Huh and it seems you can even do it locally and without a Mac. That’s a nice feature.

It seems my phone supports backing up through the Google account. So no local backups and only some apps appear in the list. If it’s the same as when changing to a new phone that’s pretty inadequate.

The question is what to put in the zip. Do you have to use each app’s backup mechanism (if it exists) and gather the files yourself? This works I guess but it’s very time consuming.

Is there currently any way on android of getting a local backup and restoring it after a factory reset? It seems access to application data is so limited, you’re stuck with whatever backup functionality the specific devs chose for their app.

Isn’t this more of a DE thing? Like Mac -> Gnome, Windows -> KDE, Linux -> ??? (XFCE maybe?)

My current phone is an Xperia but Sony is slowly pulling out of Europe. They’re not sold in my country anymore and I don’t know if I’ll be able to get one when I need a new phone. Sony is not exactly a reliable company.

In the specs

I love that fairphones have kept the SD card slot. Now make them a bit smaller and they’d be perfect.

The services themselves will probably be made to ask for verification and your devices will answer through the age verification app. Since custom mobile OSs (or desktop Linux) won’t provide hardware attestation, the app won’t work on them and the websites will treat you as underage. The types of services that require age verification aren’t specific, they can change based on EU decisions so eventually people not using “approved” OSs may be locked out of most of the internet.

DDG for everything but especially searches in other countries (using the country toggle).

Google for images and super localized results.

Yandex for reverse image search (yes really).