[ale] Woo! Pinephone64!!

[Jim Kinney]

Battery life on the pine64 is as bad as they said. Didn't make it a full work day on idle. Lot's of tuning opportunity 👍

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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