Jolla

Last week RTJolla, one of my main sources for information about Jolla on twitter has died - probably not forever, but maybe for a longer period of time.

I am not big fan of creating listings and searches on twitter, I just want to read my timeline, so I created a twitter to account to jump in until RTJolla returns. This bot has been created for my personal usage will retweet everything it finds about Jolla and SailfishOS - the operating system powering the Jolla smartphone.

It’s probably Jolla’s fault, because following my purchase of this beautiful phone from Finland I started to using more software created in Europe.

I have recently moved my online storage from Dropbox to Younited which is a service provided by F-Secure, a Finnish company known for data security software and services (the first ever anti-virus software I used on a DOS-powered computer was f-prot…). Younited is pretty straightforward and works much like other services you might use. There are clients available for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. There’s even a client for Linux, so I can sync folders from my Archlinux-powered Laptop at home! Younited offers just 5GB of online storage for free, but purchasing more space is cheap compared to Dropbox or box.com - 200GB are ~75 Euros per year.

In February of 2012 I set up an instance of ownCloud, an selfhostable cloud-solution written in php. It was a good feeling to have it around to store my files, calendars and contacts not needing some service provider I knew too little about to be able to judge if they are trustworthy - like Google, Dropbox, Box.net or Zumo Drive.

When I made the switch to Lumia in December 2012 and shortly afterwards giving Windows a new chance on my laptop, it was easy to switch all of the things I had in my ownCloud to Skydrive and other services provided by Microsoft (yes and sorry, but I consider Microsoft more trustworthy than Google or Apple). All other things just would not work well on a Windows Phone, while Skydrive was well integrated into the operating system.

Since LG presented their (cool!) new Smart-TVs powered by webOS, my beloved operating system is trending again. Reviews were positive in general and one must admin that the system looks very promising. In hope to fuel webOS rising again (at least in social media), I have played around with twitter bots on my MSI Windbox running archlinux and created a little bot retweeting things tagged with the webos-hashtag. Due to a bad coincidence of a similar term existing in (Mexican?) slang, there also might be tweets in that timeline not quite covering technology, but hopefully, those are not taking over…

In May I have bought a Jolla smartphone preordering option. In August Jolla sent me a nice T-Shirt showing “I am the first one”, some stickers and a letter saying “Thank you”. I was not sure if I really wanted to get a new smartphone - my Lumia 820 was running fine and I had a whole bunch of webOS-phones ready to run as backups. The mission Jolla was on was nevertheless fascinating, so I wanted to support them.