Glamming onto fads as they come and go seems to be the norm here at tmo...
Screaming for the latest...
Then screaming about the cost...
Then screaming about everything from the poor build quality ...right up to the lack of enough support or updates... or both...
Then screaming when it's discontinued...
Then screaming about the competition which is dumbing it down ..pandering to the general population.
Then cyclically..
Screaming yet again ..about the latest...
Perhaps I am being cynical..
Perhaps it will last as a new medium...
But I doubt it. As I mentioned before...
1 studio attempting to introduce or change the format of media...has a snowballs chance in hell...

And perhaps I am just a bit weary of the continuous weekly new tech that draws everyone like a flock of crows to a glass bead...

And yes...
Once a new thing becomes commonplace...
It is on the road to being a given... forgotten...
cast aside or supplanted...by the next.

And a comparison between 40 year old terminal ...
And the oldest and first forms of art and tool making there is...?
The age of terminal is a literal hiccup of time ...in compare...
Let alone comparing it to the ability to do dimensional work...



<sigh>
the majority of my angst ...comes from the fact that..
all the latest and greatest mean very little if I can't even use a functioning linux phone.
We can put a man on the moon..
We can make holographic phones...
But a bloody linux phone that will work?
fremantle has just about had it.
and I am quite tired of waiting for the neo900 to ship (whenever the hell that will be...IF ever that will be...)

I just got a pristine nexus 5 ..
I like the build...
I like the open factor of it as well.
I do not care for the fact the battery is a pain to replace..
Nor the fact it has no sd slot or physik qwerty keyboard.
But I can live with that, considering...

I have been poring through just about everything I can find...
And came to a conclusion.

Sailfish has a few too many issues on the nexus 5 for my liking, also it is too closed up for my liking, and there are elements of real world politics with their own agendas ..spilling in there I do not care for.
Others may love Sailfish...great for them.

CM or any of the dozens of other custom roms out there are fabulous and all...
I would rather have the choice of whether I wish to run an android app or not.

also custom rom's are great and all...most have some small issue or other..but all could never guarantee consistent updates..and that is understandable..
most being made by individuals who are stretched in their ability to do it all by themselves...

However...
Ubuntu Touch and Plasma Mobile have come a long way..
even the most recent updates both have done ...have made a vast difference.

So
I just yesterday bought an additional pair of pristine nexus 5's

I intend on putting Ubuntu Touch on one..
Plasma Mobile on the second...
and ..
If Leste plays out well for the nexus 5 ..
Maemo on the third.
If Leste plays out well for the n900 ...great.

ONE of the OS's has got to survive, grow and prosper... of the 3 ..
the ones that don't..
those nexus units with their builds on them will be relegated to being spare / back up nexus 5's...

I am hedging my bets.
By hook or by crook...I WILL get a fully functioning linux phone back in my hand.