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I bought a Pinephone PostmarketOS Edition. I'm going to be honest, at worst it is e-waste, at best a toy. You wouldn't really use it as a phone. Its too slow,

I bought a Pinephone PostmarketOS Edition. I'm going to be honest, at worst it is e-waste, at best a toy. You wouldn't really use it as a phone. Its too slow, too flaky, feature lacking. Pinephone is a very raw product lacking basic functionality that would be essential in modern phone - encryption at rest is one. One day, it might turn into a usable product, but there are many, many years from this being something you would actually want to carry. It feels less useful than the first iphones a decade ago. That being said, I would strongly support people buying these devices and building the ecosystem. We need alternatives. The reality is today you have no escape from the big players if you want a modern usable phone device. Maybe in n years.

ramtatatam 6y ago
I bought a pinephone which I immediately flashed with Arch Linux. It definitely is not a workhorse of productivity as we used to but I did not buy pinephone to be one. I wanted a phone I can use for making calls and sending texts, and maybe taking photos. And the one that does not spy on me. I have plans to run podman on it and use it for things like firefox or thunderbird but that's not critical. I am happy to have a phone that does not constantly draw my attention :) And on a side note Arch community is soooo briliant, they even helped me on New Year's Eve when I had spare time to play with the phone. It's kind of response that brings back some nice memories :)
agsdfagsd 6y ago
The Pinephone is a development platform, and I don't think anyone is suggesting that Pinephone (or Librem for that matter) is anywhere near ready for daily use by most folks. That said, when it comes to open mobile platforms, I think my assertion that the Pinephone is the most promising platform still stands -- they're the most successful at getting today's "state of the art" in open dev platforms into the hands of developers, even if that "state of the art" has a woefully out of date SoC.

ramtatatam 6y ago

I bought a pinephone which I immediately flashed with Arch Linux. It definitely is not a workhorse of productivity as we used to but I did not buy pinephone to be one. I wanted a phone I can use for making calls and sending texts, and maybe taking photos. And the one that does not spy on me. I have plans to run podman on it and use it for things like firefox or thunderbird but that's not critical. I am happy to have a phone that does not constantly draw my attention :) And on a side note Arch community is soooo briliant, they even helped me on New Year's Eve when I had spare time to play with the phone. It's kind of response that brings back some nice memories :)

agsdfagsd 6y ago

The Pinephone is a development platform, and I don't think anyone is suggesting that Pinephone (or Librem for that matter) is anywhere near ready for daily use by most folks. That said, when it comes to open mobile platforms, I think my assertion that the Pinephone is the most promising platform still stands -- they're the most successful at getting today's "state of the art" in open dev platforms into the hands of developers, even if that "state of the art" has a woefully out of date SoC.