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by kop316 5y ago
I am. I have used a Pinephone with Mobian daily for a while, I am currently using a Librem 5 with PureOS. I only turned on my Android phone once since December, and that was to factory reset it since I wasn't using it.
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by kop316 5y ago
Heh, I rememeber the last time I bought from Newegg, I bought a Motherboard + RAM combo, and when I went to assemble my PC, it would not boot. After a long time searching, it turned out the RAM + Motherboard combo I had was the reason. When
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by kop316 5y ago
I am using the xduoo X3ii right now, and that seems to check all of your boxes. It supports Rockbox too!
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by kop316 5y ago
Second this advice. Some of my favorite classes that I took were electives where the professor was passionate about the subject. I even got an offer to go on an archaeology trip over the summer (which I sadly had to decline as I accepted an
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by kop316 5y ago
Aside from clean room reverse engineering, I do not think there is anyway to actually replace that. One can wipe and reformat the ADSP, but to my knowledge, if the source code is out there, it is certainly leaed proprietary source code.
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by kop316 5y ago
Just as feature complete.
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by kop316 5y ago
I think the ARM core on that is pretty weak even compared to the A64 (and certainly compared to the RK3399 of the PPP!). So while possible, I think it is pretty infeasible. That and I think everything is wired to the main CPU anyways.
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by kop316 5y ago
At the end of the day, if a university gives out grades, there has to be some sort of objective way of handing out a grade. What I have seen for the good courses is it is a mixture of exams, projects, and homework. Some students are very go
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by kop316 5y ago
heh, I actually had this discussion with the professor I an TAing for. The (graduate) class is entirely a class project (it is an ASIC design class), and, if you finish the class project (you can tape out your chip), you get an A. We have a
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by kop316 5y ago
> She wasn't talking about solutions to the exams. I know, I was referring to the homework.
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by kop316 5y ago
To offer a different perspective a bit: For every person who desires to learn for it, there are also folks who want to do as little as possible and see no issue with just copying solutions to turn into homework. This includes groups who hol
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by kop316 5y ago
Thankfully, the Pinephone community has stepped up and made a FOSS firmware (mainly biktorgi, thank you!): https://github.com/Biktorgj/pinephone_modem_sdk/releases It still uses the ADSP from Quectel, but from my
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by kop316 5y ago
Yeah it seems that all of the (in-ear) Bose wired headphones were discontinued.
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by kop316 5y ago
Heh, I got my spouse a pair of AirPods, and long ago she went back to a pair of wired earbuds due to various issues with them. IIRC, noiuse cancelling didn't work well and causes a lot of sudio issues, there were connection issues all
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by kop316 5y ago
Assuming you use Linux, this should work as a 2FA app: https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/numberstation/ I use it on my Pinephone, but it works on my laptop too.
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by kop316 5y ago
Thank you for the thoughful response on this. TIL.
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by kop316 5y ago
Honestly, if you use wordpress for the basic functionality and don't install plugins, it's pretty nice. You got a fully functional blog, you can give non-technical users a login and they know how to use it too. You do have to be r
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by kop316 5y ago
Gotcha, thanks!
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by kop316 5y ago
Does the Framework support coreboot? IIRC it does not, and I was sort of surprised to not see that in this announcement. Their github also doesn't have any mention of coreboot: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer And
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by kop316 5y ago
To my knowledge, none. But I don't think 4G is going away anytime soon to be honest.
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by kop316 5y ago
> modulo some dropped messages mmsd-tng is a lot more stable in dealing with transient network issues with 1.7, which was the cause of dropped messages (dog fooding your work helps!). I think almost all other distros have moved to the mo
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by kop316 5y ago
The Pinephone Pro is much faster, and I wouldn't call it "slow" at all. However, the Pinephone Pro does not have as mature drivers/kernel/etc. as the OG Pinephone, so I think trying to compare battery life at this p
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by kop316 5y ago
Depending on your carrier (I live in the US so I can only speak to them), Calls, MMS, SMS already work just fine. As far as pictures....the Camera on the OG Pinephone is not great, I would not use it to take serious pictures (or I am bad at
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by kop316 5y ago
It does not.
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by kop316 5y ago
Ok so maybe I exaggerated a bit (or it just feels like 40 seconds!), I just timed a couple of times, it's closer to 15-20 seconds, so not as bad.
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by kop316 5y ago
AFAIK most devs cross-compile on a beefy machine then debug in the Pinephone (or have some fancy configuration to do it automatically). I personally develop/compile/debug all on phone (but I know I am an outlier in that regard).
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by kop316 5y ago
If you are interested in Debian, look at: https://mobian-project.org/ I would call it....sort of official? It isn't Debian per se, but many of the devs working on it also are working with Debian to get as much upstream
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by kop316 5y ago
> So as a phone it works great? So far for me it has yeah. I really don't know enough about how well it works outside of the US (but many of the devs seem to be in Europe, so I imagine it works well there?) For me the biggest thing
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by kop316 5y ago
I have been using the OG Pinephone full time for a month in the US (Mobian Phosh). I am able to use VoLTE Calls, SMS, MMS, Visual Voicemail (so all of the basic feature phone stuff works). It is very very slow however. Firefox takes 40 (EDI
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by kop316 5y ago
Happy to help!

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