[ale] Woo! Pinephone64!!

Bob bobabc at bellsouth.net
Thu Sep 17 19:29:56 EDT 2020


Hi J.D.,

I couldn't get obs studio to work under wayland.

--Bob



On 2020-09-17 6:15 p.m., DJ-Pfulio via Ale 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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