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by linmob 4y ago
Actually I don’t agree with calling him a fascist - I could have made that more clear. That said, with Lunduke being one of the people that are unable to respect women's rights enough, and thus keep calling all abortions murder, I just
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by linmob 4y ago
I recommend you to look at Lunduke's twitter (@thelunduke)… "Facist" depends on the definition of Facism you go by, but deeply conservative (which many non-conservative people call "reactionary")? Definitely.
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by linmob 4y ago
Honestly, I have one. I put KDE Neon User Edition (based on 20.04) on it (a somewhat bad choice, as it does not ship a virtual keyboard by default yet, GNOME is generally better there), and it installed just fine. Touch works, the Pen works
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by linmob 4y ago
Some distros do, and GNOME has been good to me too on many distributions with delivering a working virtual keyboard OOTB. KDE Neon, however, which I wanted to try after reading that KDE Plasma 5.25 has better tablet support, comes without a
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by linmob 4y ago
I don't use ZFS, so I can’t comment. Maybe the blogs author just wants to use that RAM for the web browser :-)
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by linmob 4y ago
You can have a similarly bad experience with Linux on a laptop; all these issues (except for virtual keyboard related ones) also occur there: - EFI is a bit difficult with distributions when Secure Boot is enabled. Ubuntu and Fedora support
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by linmob 4y ago
Agreed. The Lenovo Duet Chromebook is quite nice, and if one ever gets tired of Chrome OS (or once Google drops it, there's already a distribution [1] that supports it. [1]: https://github.com/Maccraft123/Cadmium
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by linmob 4y ago
Android is running a Linux kernel, yes. But, as an enthusiast GNU+Linux desktop user you'll find that you can't do your linuxy stuff on Android - sure, termux does a lot, but it's just not the same. The Surface Go 2 that the
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by linmob 4y ago
Not really, just follow the links on [1], download an image and flash it to a microSD[HC|XC] card, or use JumpDrive [2] to write it to eMMC. [1]: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=PinePhone_Software_R... [2]: https:&
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by linmob 4y ago
Somewhat yes, it's written with people somewhat familiar with the matter in mind. I have time now, so feel free to AMA :)
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by linmob 4y ago
True. Well, mostly: You can use Spotify Premium, thanks to Spot: https://github.com/xou816/spot (I could go into bridging WhatsApp over Matrix, or using WhatsApp Web, but I realize that that's most likely too pain
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by linmob 4y ago
Hi Megi! Thank you for your great work to make the PinePhone so much better than it was when I got it! (I was going to add a people "I want to thank for their hard work"-section to the post, but lacked the time to do it thoroughly
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by linmob 4y ago
> Personally, I'm waiting for the day you can hack PostmarketOS onto a phone and just use it as a phone, but that's not going to happen any time soon on closed hardware. For a select few devices, my personal favorite being the
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by linmob 4y ago
Arguably the killer app is that you can plug it into a display (using a convergence dock or directly, if the display supports USB-C) and that you can run your beloved Linux distribution of choice and make it your own thing. Battery life is
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by linmob 4y ago
Regarding 2.: I asked about that for the PinePhone Pro, and I was told that changing the case is super expensive, as it requires new molds. From what I've heard elsewhere, PINE64 reused another companies case design (and molds) for the
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by linmob 4y ago
It's this one [1]. I have used it with the PinePhone for a long time, and it fits and works with the PinePhone Pro in my superficial impromptu testing - I have not yet checked whether it's able to drive the PPP at full load. This
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by linmob 4y ago
Author here. I'm sorry for being blunt, but good grief, comments like yours make me want to stop blogging! You did not read the full paragraph nor the paragraph after the one you quoted, right? (If you took the time and read them, I re
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by linmob 4y ago
Author here: I am daily driving a Purism Librem 5 currently (in order to write a proper review about it). I have carried the PinePhone as a secondary device for a long time before, and I tried it as a main phone for a week twice (late 2020,
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by linmob 4y ago
That's precisely why the PinePhone matters. One might criticize PINE64's approach of "throwing hardware over the wall and hoping that the community magically comes together and makes the software side work", but without
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by linmob 4y ago
If you’re in Europe: I like my replacement PolarCell battery.
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by linmob 4y ago
Megapixels (the most popular PinePhone camera app) can scan QR codes (but it's obviously limited by the overall quality of PinePhones camera hardware).
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by linmob 4y ago
I trust my regular followers (blog, videos, social media) to somewhat know my tone by now (I've been writing over a hundred blog posts over the past two years), and it’s them I wrote this for. I don’t really know how to make it clearer
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by linmob 4y ago
I agree with your summary. I enjoy PinePhone and Mobile Linux a lot, but if someone hates tinkering (or has no time for it) and wants a seamless experience, they should just get a different device. That said, it does not have to be a lot of
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by linmob 4y ago
Author here. The blog post is not meant as a discouragement, but as a report. It does not help anyone if people get a PinePhone (or other Linux Phone) with the expectation that it's just going to work like their big-platform-high-volum
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by linmob 4y ago
Regarding maps apps: Arguably, Pure Maps is decent (in a Mainstream Smartphone way), and Mepo is great in a nerdy way. I really need to look into packaging Osmin for postmarketOS, it‘s almost upsetting that it’s only available on Manjaro AR
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by linmob 4y ago
Nice project, great write-up! Software is tough though, even the OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner had 128 MB Ram, and Illume was dropped from Enlightenment since. (There’s a note to revive it in the TODO file, though.) Of the ongoing “mobile Linux U
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by linmob 4y ago
If you can tolerate Qt or SDL on your system, there are a few options: https://linuxphoneapps.org/categories/maps-and-navigation/ Other than that, I think that the planned GTK4 port of GNOME Maps has the potential
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by linmob 4y ago
The fun fact is, that when Purism write convergence, they‘re after what Canonicals' Ubuntu Touch (which sadly is not mentioned at all in the post) meant with Convergence and what Microsoft called "Continuum": Plugging your ph
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by linmob 4y ago
It‘s not just the Modem Firmware, it’s also how the distribution manages the modem. I am mostly using DanctNIX (Arch Linux ARM) to test apps for [0], but also have postmarketOS stable installed (on eMMC) as a backup for when I need "ph
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by linmob 5y ago
The Plasma Mobile Maliit keyboard works with GTK apps on Manjaro Plasma Mobile. There must be some way to make this work on other Plasma Mobile distributions.

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