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by linmob 4y ago
I've been spending way too much time making content about the hardware, and still would if my new job would not absorb so much of my time and energy. I still write a Weekly Update on the PinePhone and similar projects on https:/&
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by linmob 4y ago
It's on the reMarkable, under 'Settings > Help > Copyrights and licenses'
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by linmob 4y ago
As a person that spends way too much time on these efforts[0], here's what makes the phone still worthwhile to me despite being slow and at times buggy: It's nice to be in an ecosystem that does not have ad frameworks, that does n
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by linmob 4y ago
Definitely, the GNU/Linux software stack needs improvement for everything that's not a UVC Webcam. libcamera is a relevant project in that context. Purism, who make the Librem 5, are working on that - they have a paid team, but it
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by linmob 4y ago
It‘s feels humbling to see projects one vaguely remembers from using them for a while around 2000 on some slow Pentium still being around and managing to put out major releases. (I almost could not believe it, checked Wikipedia and found o
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by linmob 4y ago
Yes, a fun form-factor! The EOMA68 project tried to re-use it for a compute module [0], but sadly ran out of money before shipping. [0]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
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by linmob 4y ago
I‘ve heard PinePhone, so I need to a) tell you about one of my little projects, LinuxPhoneApps [1], and b) tell you that it allows to filter by programming language [2]. To date, most Rust apps we list use GTK, three use Kirigami (via Corro
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by linmob 4y ago
I am really happy they are is committed to that, but boy is that tone not called for. Yes, Chris is a GNOME dev, but I've been following him for a long time and so far I never saw him spread FUD.
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by linmob 4y ago
The same is true with an Adwaita theme for KDE/Qt Apps. I used to do this on both, Plasma and GNOME. These days I style my Qt/KDE apps all Breeze on GNOME and vice versa when I am on KDE, because unfortunately icon sets just don’
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by linmob 4y ago
Pop!_OS is still based on Ubuntu, so I doubt that they are going to ship unpatched upstream GTK, it's more likely going to be patched by Canonical.
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by linmob 4y ago
Ubuntu Touch is still around, see [0]. That said, with continued funding by Canonical, they like would have progressed differently (likely more). Firefox OS and webOS are still around under different names, which are Capyloon [1] and LuneOS
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by linmob 4y ago
Today, there‘s an adaptive variant of GPodder[0] so that people with PinePhone, Librem 5 or ported Android phones running Linux Mobile can use GTK-based GPodder on mobile. (This does not matter in terms of numbers, as that‘s at best a few t
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by linmob 4y ago
Try https://i.reddit.com/ on mobile.
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by linmob 4y ago
That's sad to hear, and I would love to know the details (Which OS are you running? What did you attempt to upgrade?). Regarding your conclusion, I totally agree: Don't have only one device, make sure to have a backup. IMHO this a
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by linmob 4y ago
Not sure if there’s any objective measurement for what most people daily driving the PinePhone use - in my personal count postmarketOS (I do hope they stick to stable ;-)) with Sxmo was quite vocal and not rare, followed by Mobian with Pho
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by linmob 4y ago
Which OS are you using? Did you try biktorgj's Modem Firmware (and additionally, the various proprietary releases, to see which one works best with your carrier)?
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by linmob 4y ago
That's something I really should try to measure. I would guess that it lasts a bit longer than two hours; definitely way longer than my PinePhone Pro. Battery life totally could be better (one coukld also see it as a feature to not min
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by linmob 4y ago
> Honestly, try browsing the web for a few minutes and it gets uncomfortably hot. I really haven't had that experience in quite a while. I am mostly running DanctNIX or postmarketOS 22.06 with Phosh and browse with Firefox (with uBl
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by linmob 4y ago
I have both (Book & Phone), and AFAIK they both run at 1.15 GHz. I agree that they aren't slow if you adjust workloads and maybe expectations, but seemingly many commenters here (but also on, e.g., YouTube) aren't willing to d
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by linmob 4y ago
Different priorities don't make OP disingenuous. If you want to run a mostly free software stack and Emacs, LineageOS is definitely way worse than PinePhone [1]. Alarms do work, OP just missed the apps that make it possible: https:&#
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by linmob 4y ago
Might be a hardware issue. I only have later revision PinePhones and am typing this reply with Squeekboard just fine.
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by linmob 4y ago
For those not familiar with PinePhone things: This blog post is about an early hardware revision, the Braveheart edition, which has quite a few hardware flaws that have been fixed since (see [1] for details). In particular, I've never
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by linmob 4y ago
Some apps exist: https://linuxphoneapps.org (Contributions welcome!) They aren't all perfect, but TBH, I would get by. I only miss Threema to switch fully at this point (which I've migrated many of my contacts too, so
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by linmob 4y ago
Things keep improving, slowly but surely. BTW: Mepo is a mapping app that performs great on the PinePhone: https://sr.ht/~mil/Mepo/
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by linmob 4y ago
You could also get a second-hand PinePhone (just buy postmarketOS CE or later to avoid bad hardware bugs). Regarding other postmarketOS supported devices, I quite like the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 and the OnePlus 6 - but be aware that bootloade
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by linmob 4y ago
IIRC it was something about personal and/or business relationships and commitment of resources. Actually, going with Manjaro was only half of what made me question the decision: At the time, when PINE64 introduced the "Beta Editio
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by linmob 4y ago
My bank (comdirect in Germany) fortunately has an okay mobile-friendly website and sells a tiny hardware device to generate the "TAN" for their weird proprietary way to secure transactions.
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by linmob 4y ago
So… one 2011 article is enough to condemn The Document Foundation and Libre Office forever? That’s basically a century in Internet Years ago!
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by linmob 4y ago
I wrote my Thesis in LibreOffice in 2019 on a 2015 MacBook Air, with Zotero integration. It was pretty nice, and thanks to MacOS even coming back just fine, document open and no line lost after me being too stupid to plug my Mac into power,
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by linmob 4y ago
> In regard to womens rights, viable unborn woman have the right not to be killed in the womb- which includes the vast majority of abortions currently being performed. So it’s mostly female fetus that are being aborted? That sounds awful

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