What I really like about the whole concept is that there’s no way for non-digital contacts to reach me. No text messages or voice calls. If I need to make a dial call, I can fire up a Google Voice session I already have setup. Anyone that needs to call me can reach out on Matrix via a Bridge, and anyone that needs to phone me [doctors?], can leave a message on my google voice. I never pick up the phone anyway, so I’d much rather just get a silent notification that I have a voice mail than have to have my brain disrupted.
The only real sticking point that I can think of is turn by turn navigation, easily, but I can still do it on my watch [Garmin] if I absolutely needed it. Google maps is a bloating piece of shit anyway. I almost just want to go back to paper maps.
What I really like about the whole concept is that there’s no way for non-digital contacts to reach me. No text messages or voice calls. If I need to make a dial call, I can fire up a Google Voice session I already have setup. Anyone that needs to call me can reach out on Matrix via a Bridge, and anyone that needs to phone me [doctors?], can leave a message on my google voice. I never pick up the phone anyway, so I’d much rather just get a silent notification that I have a voice mail than have to have my brain disrupted.
The only real sticking point that I can think of is turn by turn navigation, easily, but I can still do it on my watch [Garmin] if I absolutely needed it. Google maps is a bloating piece of shit anyway. I almost just want to go back to paper maps.
For vehicle navigation, Waze is amazing.
But that’s an app. There will be no apps on Raspbian. I’d have to install an android emulator to get that and that’s exactly what I don’t want to do.