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I’ve been working on my pinephone. But it’s really underpowered imo. I’m considering a Librem 5. Which has more cpu power and battery. The appeal to me is rea
by lettergram 5y ago
I’ve been working on my pinephone. But it’s really underpowered imo.
I’m considering a Librem 5. Which has more cpu power and battery.
The appeal to me is really getting off any major tech platform. Further, you can disconnect the components via switches — iE unplug the microphone. That being said, I can’t even use Signal on them without some major configurations.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13728 https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13728
I have also considered the “freedom phone”. But my understand is it’s just Graphene + process isolation on a slightly modified hardware. Until it’s heavily vetted I wouldn’t use it though.
And ugh yeah, that’s about it.
- gjsman-1000 5y agoYou are aware that the Librem 5, in real-world testing, has terrible battery life... and is a brick in thickness. That's why I can't switch yet. :(
- seba_dos1 5y agoAround 6 hours of active usage and around 16 hours of idle time (exact values depend on what's kept enabled and the signal strength of course). Currently it does not suspend to RAM at all, which is how PinePhone achieves longer idle times.
- josteink 5y ago> That being said, I can’t even use Signal on them without some major configurations. Sadly bridging Signal into a matrix home-server and just using a matrix-client from the PinePhone/Librem is probably the simplest option.
- sphinxcdi 5y ago> I have also considered the “freedom phone”. But my understand is it’s just Graphene + process isolation on a slightly modified hardware. No, it's not. You may be confusing it with another company with a similar name selling devices with GrapheneOS and various apps installed. Both are not associated with GrapheneOS, by the way.