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Question to the #LinuxPhone/#PostmarketOS/#PinePhone community: I still have the OG Pinephone from 2020 in a drawer and was playing around with the idea of using it as a semi-#dumphone / less distraction riddled device for day to day usage.

How is the current state of Linux on a Phone and what about this particular device? The PmOS wiki page looks promising,, so does the Debian wiki (which was my main phone OS back then) but I am unsure how well this is maintained. IIRC, it became somewhat abandoned when the #PinePhonePro arrived.

wiki.postmarketos.orgPINE64 PinePhone (pine64-pinephone) - postmarketOS Wiki
#PMos#Debian#Mobian

The time has come to let my kid borrow/use a phone. Luckily I have a oneplus running postmarketos lying around! Any tips on setting it up?

Only meant for texting and calling specific contacts. Is there a way to set restrictions? I've removed apps that aren't relevant, such as firefox, but kids are clever, so I should have a better gameplan going forward :blobthinkingeyes:

I'm trying to get a hyperpixel4 display working on RPi CM5 with #AlpineLinux 3.22 (or #pmos). While the console works on RPi OS it fails on Alpine - using identical config.txt tweaks. 🤔

drm_rp1_dpi and rp1_pio fails to load on Alpine. From loading with insmod it seems that rp1-pio fails due to unknown symbols.

The symbols are provided by rp1.ko - but that cannot be loaded due to "module is already loaded" (which it is not ⁉️).

Now I'm stucked an weird. Any ideas?

Waiting for the time to come. Departure is in ~1h.

The travel would have the following benefits:

  • I learn to travel by myself to another city
  • I get to know some #FOSS fans and they get to know me
  • I buy a Redmi Note 9S which supports #Linux #mainline(#pmOS) cheaper than my city. I even might find a brand new one!
  • I do a #hackathon for #MinetestCTF. Maybe this could recruit some contributors for this #luanti game. And if course the more players on the server, the more fun :)))
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Rebooted after all packages were upgraded, and we are now at #postmarketOS 24.12 Plasma Edition on the #PinePhone! :flan_hurrah: #pmOS #linux

Still not sure why the time shows incorrectly even after setting it correctly manually and then enabling the auto timezone sync once "America/New York" was selected. Ah well... :flan_shrug:

Was thinking of getting a bigger #eMMC module for my #PinebookPro, but the one that was recommended was $50 for 256GiB which is a little... ridiculous.

I think I'm just going to wipe the 60GiB stock eMMC with #pmOS, fix up the loose screws, and get a 256GB microSDXC card for extra storage.

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@khm @vwbusguy @Tutanota @ente

Eh, ok.

I think the FOSS Android builds deserve more credit than just being Android with a different theme. At the very least, "AOSP without Google crap plus some other niceties."

Unfortunately, there's not a lot else. I mean, yes, there's #pmOS and many other amazing projects, but given how much people live on their phones and depend on crummy things like their banking apps to work, there's not a lot of options.

It's a bad state of affairs.

If AOSP goes by the wayside, I guess I'll get a used iPhone and use it like a dumbphone. I know some folks that do that already.

I do love my FOSS Android phone, though. It's a pretty decent middle ground between privacy and "functionality."

P.S., ARM is a horrible platform. Just look at the progress of any project that tries to get a de-blobbed OS running on bare metal on any modern phone. They never make it particularly far. Even with blobs.

Out of curiosity do any of the #mobilelinux devices support WGPU? I have tested both #FLX1 and #PPP and neither one seems to work even though WGPU supports GLES and they both support GLES 3 but seems like WGPU doesnt work on it even if glxgears does. I opened a ticket for FLX1 a while back but I marked it as potentially a halium based issue.

I want to see if any other device is working before i open a mobile linux ticket