Librem 5 Fatigue

[FranklyFlawless]

@Lliure

How are you folks coping with these roadblocks?

For myself, my needs are modest: I use Firefox ESR to handle communications (email and forums); Lollypop for listening to local music files; and Shortwave for Internet radio. I do not place all of my computational demands on my Librem 5 USA; I use the Librem 14 for that purpose instead.

@Lliure

I totally want to love, and continue daily driving, my L5. But what to do if I feel that my L5 is making my life more shitty than it needs to be, an there’s seemingly no end in sight?

Dedicate an Android device to your Android-related dependencies, so that your relationship with your Librem 5 becomes healthy again. You can transfer your negative feelings to the Android device as intended.

@Lliure

I acknowledge that I’m going to have to take the i.MX 8 or leave it, and that there’s no faster SoC in sight. But is there really nothing technical I can do to at least mitigate the pain with the hardware I have?

Well, ideally, you create a local offline database of these train connections so that you can stop relying on the website to begin with. Other than physically separating your Android dependencies with an Android device, you could use an emulator solution like what @Dlonk did for their Microsoft authentication.

@Lliure

I’m totally willing to learn and put in more effort, but what are possible programming topics I could start learning to realistically help tackle those issues?

ArchiveBox

As for the Android emulator solution, check out this thread:

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