Mastodawn

I'm considering getting a desktop - dell #Optiplex9020 & trying a phone that at least looks similar to a pixel - moto G5 - for an open source operating system compatible phone - in part because the phone & desktop combined cost less than a pixel or the #pine64 but also in part because I really do want to get back to using a desktop overall & learning desktop Linux OSs....

If this phone breaks in under a month, as is 90% probable, it will have me a little annoyed but not with a huge amount of money burnt in that process....with my likely ordering the pine a month or 2 later.

If however the phone does last over 3 months and in letting my spouse look at & try working it some he likes it, I may get a second one or just give it to him (with the OS redone to degoogle it), as I get the pine a few months later.

*Since I'll never give these numbers to anyone as a steady means of contacting me, but rather keep it to my spouse & if I'm traveling sizably (over 500 miles) - possibly people I might be meeting, which plan or phone numberbor numbers I have doesn't much matter, beyond it working in my country, so changing them likewise doesn't matter.

Antoine Martin 5d ago

With the v25.12 release of postmarketos, the Pinenote support is in a pretty good place. Although the device isn't in community yet, I backport fixes from edge so you don't have to. I've packaged hrdl's sway config under device-pine64-pinenote-sway-hrdl for those wanting an opinionated setup right away. I'll be working on optimising existing postmarketos UIs for eink displays in preparation for v26.06.

Install instructions: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PineNote_(pine64-pinenote)

#pine64 #pinenote #postmarketos

PINE64 PineNote (pine64-pinenote) - postmarketOS Wiki

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Malka Beth Dec 20

My husband said after I went through the above options: I'll buy you a brick, not a brick phone, but a clay brick, because it'll be just as useless.

(he's mostly referring to #Volla & #Pixel--- pixel he hates himself as he's had sizable issues trying to use them, beyond their durability problem.....and Volla I might well get him to bend on after & if they get service in the USA)

So overall - I might order a #pine64 in February or March. .....and to reiterate-- all 3 of these are incomplete products that show how much work is needed in the open source hardware sphere, not real answers to many disabled people who want & deserve to have tracking/spying free communication devices- especially in the data resale sphere but they exist as starting steps & examples of what's possible.

#DisabilityAccessibility #OpenSourceHardware

NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds Dec 17

Rhino Linux 2025.4 arrives

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/12/rhino-linux-2025-4/

Glifted Dec 17

I'm thinking of buying a Pinephone. Trying to get an idea off what I'm getting into...

https://lemmy.world/post/40316831

I'm thinking of buying a Pinephone. Trying to get an idea off what I'm getting into... - Lemmy.World

Hi As the title says I’m thinking of getting a PinePhone. I intend to make it my daily-driver. I’ve read it isn’t ready for daily-driver use but I really only need it to do 3 things… * Calls * Texts * Run a Signal/Molly client I have an iphone for work and de-Googled Androids that I can turn on if I ever need but I want to avoid it as much as possible I was happily living with a Punkt MP02 when it worked but it’s Signal client is a constant shit-show So what is it like? Are calls and texts reliable? Has anyone used Signal on it? I’m probably going to do the PostMarketOs/Plasma combo any experience you can share is helpful

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Simon D.Dec 16

@w269 @murena Mieux que quoi ?

Utiliser un smartphone sans ouvrir de compte chez Google, ni chez le fabriquant du smartphone c'est chouette, tant que ces deux acteurs l'autorisent.

Murena survit dans un interstice, qui pourrait être bouché l'an prochain.

Avec les téléphones produits par #Jolla (#Pine64 ou #Liberux) on se débarrasse vraiment des deux acteurs qui ont trop de pouvoir aujourd'hui.

Là où Murena se contente de revendre du logiciel libre sans changer le paysage, ni les perspectives d'avenir.

Et je dis ça en ayant offert un Fairphone sous Murena à mon père il y a quelques années.

Je pense qu'on peut faire mieux aujourd'hui.

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DrYak Dec 14

@missbullitt
Sur mon autre telephone (un #Pine64 Pinephone Pro) j'ai la version gratuite community de SailfishOS.
Ca utilise un kernel et des drivers Linux upstream, il n'y a aucune raison que les m-a-j s'arretent, idem pour les parties gratuites de SailfishOS.

Danct12 Dec 13

Just fixed the edk2 port for PineTab 2.. it was a memory allocation issue.. :)

#Pine64 #PineTab2

Luigi311 Dec 8

Interesting looks like the new revision of @dawndrums #DivineD #mobilelinux phone will include lora onboard so it will be one of the few, only?, mobile phones with integrated lora. I know #pine64 made a backcover but that is kapoot. Hopefully it works well enough to run #meshtastic / #meshcore right on a phone and not have to worry about carrying another device.

https://docs.dawndrums.tn/blog/dd-rev1.1-arch#3-lora-subsystem