My Pinephone is very weak so it's a little slow but my personal experience with it is amazing. It seems like its finally starting to take shape. Let's bug hunt and make Linux mobile and the GNOME ecosystem better for everyone....
If you have to do Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech tasks and don't want to send your data to the Internet, I recommend you to try Speech Note (Linux desktop app).
It is easy to use, works offline and supports 57 languages!
I've been using the #pinephone as my daily driver for the past few years, and was keen to upgrade to the #pinephonepro since it released.
I ordered it back in Jan 2022, but had a very shoddy experience. Waiting on software support, issues with flashing the OS, and many problems with battery/charging.
I just tried using it again with the latest update for @postmarketOS. The phone actually works amazingly well now. Going to give this a shot as my daily driver. 😎
I fixed my silly phone.
It's a Pixel 4A 5G, and there's dust under the main camera, which is something I use a decent bit.
I was doing tons of research into alternative OSes (because even de-googled #Android is pretty BLEH), and was considering getting a #PinePhone (not Pro) for #PostmarketOS & #SXMO, or getting a Pixel 3a XL for #UBports.
Have you looked at how well supported the hardware is?
It seems that the #PinePhone (not Pro) is the only first-clast citizen for PmOS, although it's not as usable a phone. ;)
am i the only one who's tired of people shitting on the vision pro seemingly because it's apple?
i think the technology & concept backing it is really interesting. obviously, having all this data & technology locked exclusively to a proprietary and monopolistic company is terrible, but it serves as a pioneering product. maybe i'm being hopeful, but i like to think humane alternatives will crop up as the interest & market develops.. it seems inane to dismiss this line of development so early.
switched from #neomutt to #aerc and i'm never looking back. the setup process for aerc was so simple and after working out a few kinks it works great on my #pinephone!
Some time ago I decided that using my #pinephone as a on-the-go #emacs environment instead of a phone in a more narrow sense would fit my workflow just well & I was right. It’s a good enough device to read mails in mu4e, rss in elfeed and my .org files on and to read documentation or even ebooks on.
Sometimes I use it for SSH things or quick code edits as well. It won’t replace my phone, as my phone does things I’d normally use a phone for (taking pictures, calls, proprietary messengers) better, but as a personal organizer/backup SSH-Client to not always have to carry a bigger laptop around, it’s quite good.
I’m currently running postmarketOS, but may want to switch to NixOS on mobile later-ish as that would make sharing configuration between my devices easier.
I'm a little adventurous today and really considering ThinkPad on ARM from Japan (:
My current laptop is falling apart, yubikey died yesterday, so it's definitely time to fresh up my devices. I know that x1 carbon will work for me 100%, but what is joy in being hundred percent sure?)
Already collected a bunch of links to various kernel patches for x13s.
I guess I can use the #pinephone as a substitute server :D
what am i doing? just improving my blog by editing the barf build script to fit my needs! attached is a screenshot of what i'm doing right now sitting on my couch with my #pinephone connected to the #nexdock. my goal is to get a title and subtitle to show above the navbar in the header that is generated based off the first few lines of each article's markdown file. i've already succeeded in making this work for the landing page!
Are there any not-shit Linux phones and tablets? I will seriously pay 2x for the same specs as a flagship from a major Android-based brand. #linuxdevices #askfoss#asklibre
Daily-driving #pinephone for 2+y and I love it! Won't go back to *droid golden prison!
BUT it's a tradeoff, like all things in life.. and freedom comes with a cost (otherwise it's somebody fooling you with the illusion of it for their own profit..)
1/ performance is poor. You have to optimize your session/apps to get the best of the battery. #sxmo#tui#frugal
2/ It's work. like free/libre sw in general. It's emergent. Have to fix/admin. (better than free labour for GAFAM no?)
Les téléphones contenant des puces Qualcomm, ce qui inclut les Fairphones, envoient vos données privées à Qualcomm. Et ce, même si vous avez un téléphone sans Google ni aucun service propriétaire. C’est fait directement au niveau du chipset.
Vous vous souvenez les prédictions des hurluberlus genre Stallman à propos de la nécessité d’avoir du hardware libre et de refuser les firmwares propriétaires ? Et bien voilà.
J'ai pleine confiance en @biktorgj c'est un excellent hacker de firmware/userland pour modems sur hardware "quasi-"(sic)libre (#pinephone). Quelqu'un qui (lui) a fait ses devoirs...
(Les basebands restent un cheval de Troie de la taille d'une baleine bleue au cœur d'une architecture de controle hein...)
Since postmarketOS v23.06, the GNOME Mobile shell has been available for all users. Try it out, and lets start a conversation on how we can make it better for everyone. (wiki.postmarketos.org)
My Pinephone is very weak so it's a little slow but my personal experience with it is amazing. It seems like its finally starting to take shape. Let's bug hunt and make Linux mobile and the GNOME ecosystem better for everyone....