DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml AJ Sadauskas @social.vivaldi.net 4w ago

So I just took the next step on the de-Googling pathway and installed Asteroid OS on my smartwatch.

For the uninitiated, Asteroid OS is an open source alternative operating system that replaces Google's WearOS: https://asteroidos.org/

And my first impressions are that it's really nice 😁

So far, I actually like it better than WearOS.

The process for getting it set up was a little fiddly, and it took two attempts to get it right.

That's as much to do with the fastboot menu on my phone and its tiny text.

I wouldn't recommend doing it to my great uncle, but it's easy enough for anyone who knows their way around the terminal in Ubuntu. The instructions were very clear too.

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Never heard of Asteroid. It looks like it has a lot of potential
Wow, I had no idea this existed! That's AWESOME!
Isn't it super dead already? Like unmaintained
- I worked with the developers, its not dead.
  
  its just that they never made it public they have a nightly build system.
  
  Whats the point of that?
  
  Like if I have a modern smartwatch how would I even consider it from any research it seems dead?
- I had it installed on my old moto 360 for a while but yes... It certainly seemed dead. It didn't have much functionality and mostly just turned my smart watch into a dumb watch. 😐
Ooh, I have an older Fossil watch, that's really been suffering with the new software. I bet this would run a lot better
I would use it, but it doesn't support any devices with a decent battery life, such as the Hauwei or Xaoumi watches

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