[ale] Woo! Pinephone64!!

[Jim Kinney]

I actually buy physical CD music, direct from the artists when possible, rip to ogg and play from my phone with vlc.  It seems my current collection is all celtic and classical trumpet and piano.

On September 17, 2020 6:15:54 PM EDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Does Wayland allow video capturing yet?  Last time I checked, only
>a few bad programs were supported.
>
>OTOH, Wayland isn't a 1-off like Maemo was.  Read a few weeks ago
>that Maemo was getting a niche in the Gnome libs, to allow most of
>the gnome stuff to be used, but automatically resize down to
>Maemo-size where it makes sense. http://maemo.org/intro/
>
>I have fond memories of my PalmPro, BBerry-950, and N800 devices.  A
>friend had a Zaurus which was crazy expensive for the time.  If I
>could get all the weenie programs from Palm, thumb-board from
>Blackberry, Debian APT from the N800, and modern battery, wifi,
>phone capabilities in a mostly F/LOSS device, under my control,
>without google or other crapwear added for a "reasonable price",
>I'd be very happy.
>
>Take my money.
>
>Heck, just playing back local-to-device audio without any tracking
>would be nice out of the box (Google!).
>
>On 9/17/20 2:05 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> I've not used the nokia so I can't compare. It runs wayland for X.
>> 
>> On September 17, 2020 10:31:28 AM EDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale
><ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> 
>>     Any comparisons to a Nokia N900?
>>     Does it have X/Windows?
>> 
>>     I'm still surprised at how bad phone PIMs are. Seems like someone
>>     should have copied the PalmPilot PIM by now.
>> 
>>     And the RIM 950 thumb-key.
>> 
>>     On 9/17/20 8:29 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>> 
>>         It arrived yesterday. Nice new toy. I got it with the
>nic/hdmi/usb
>>         dongle. Got some hackery to do. Sshd is started from
>begining. Other
>>         than a binary blob that runs the modem, it's all open source.
>Mini
>>         dip switches under removable back cover that control modem,
>wifi and
>>         bluetooth, cameras, microphone, and headphone. Removable
>battery and
>>         reset switch and a 6-pin accessory hacking pin collection.
>Take the
>>         tape off the battery connection. It helps :-) -- Computers
>amplify
>>         human error Super computers are really cool
>> 
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