Ran into this a few days ago while looking for a way out of the subscription hell of self driving offerings. Very excited to watch this space!

Its funny the give away for these is they respond too quickly! Really good though.

I've moved to https://github.com/readest/readest over audio books in most cases. I just need the dang thing in my ears and their TTS is good enough.

Great find! unmute was a trip to play with

Your welcome! Glad you appreciated it man. I think Unmute was really cool and is open source but its deployment is a little on the more complex side of things.

So cool. Learning about this. Looking forward to playing with it.

I like FLauncher! Stupid simple and does the job.

I'm so thirsty for Elixir success stories I got prematurely excited from the headline

Not OP but I'm on a BigMe HiBreak Pro! Works... well enough.

Also HiBreak pro

Is there any way to do this with Android? I'd wish to get a modern snappy phone with a great camera but completely locked down.

One trick, even though it doesn't "lock it down" the same way, is to use a minimalist launcher. Check out OLauncher. It is a text-based launcher, it only has room for a few apps on the homepage, and it discourages fiddling with your phone.

https://github.com/tanujnotes/Olauncher?tab=readme-ov-file

https://github.com/tstromberg/quietude is how I manage my Pixel phone as well as my kids; I begin with “quietude.sh disable all”, but usually re-enable maps.

It takes a similar approach to the OP - changing restrictions requires a USB cable and a computer.

andoff[1] works well. I use it to lock down DNS settings to nextdns to block all the sites I want. Then I use lockmeout[2] to lock opening andoff to change the settings.

Also there is limitphone[3], but it has less settings and is easier to uninstall than andoff, but works via the same mechanism.

1: https://docs.andoff.one/ 2: https://www.teqtic.com/lock-me-out 3: https://limitphone.com/

On LineageOS 22 this is what I did:

* Remove Jelly browser with `adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 org.lineageos.jelly`

* Disable F-Droid so you can't install another browser on a whim with `adb shell pm disable-user org.fdroid.fdroid`

Author here: I think so! A reader shared with me that they used the adb cli to remove all the apps they didn't want, including the Play Store.

I've been using a BigMe HiBreak pro and it's pretty good! I have had issues with the usb port but after removing some cruft I really like it. Easy on the eyes, full android and I can watch videos in a pinch.

I find it makes it easier to do something else with my free time.