ellyFeb 26
I have to say that using Linux on a phone feels... nostalgic? Kinda like Windows Mobile PDAs used to or Android in the very beginning (in a good way).

These days mobile OSes obscure everything from the user, actively punishing them for rooting their devices or instaling custom builds.

Linux on the other hand feels like ~2008. You have apps for daily needs (like you did on PDAs back in the day), you can consume media (reading books, watching movies, listening to music).

But if you're a curious person... there's a terminal. You can see exactly what your device is doing and how it works. You want to know which GPS satellites can see you? No problem, just query the modem-manager or use simple GUI app that will tell you the name of a satellite and which system/country it belongs to (turns out my device supports GALILEO, neat!).

Im really enjoying it. Two years ago I would say it was still unusable, but now (despite WiFi, Audio and Cameras not working on my device yet) it's... neat.

(Post written from xiaomi-pyxis running postmarketOS with Plasma Mobile while walking back home from a supermaket btw)
Show threadNova🐧✨Feb 27
@elly would you say it's daily drivable if you can daily drive lineageOS (on a oneplus 6 so best compatibility afaik)
Show threadellyFeb 27
@technobaboo It... depends. It definitely can't be the only device you carry with you because of modem wakeup issues (you're pretty much guaranteed to miss a call before phone wakes up from sleep state).

In my case I could just stash a SIM card into a dumbphone or something and use that in case someone needs to call me (which are mostly scammers or government offices these days). Other than that, it definitely is daily-driveable.
I'm tempted to steal i2c lines from NFC, 3D print casing and make a keyboard folio to turn it into a real PDA (like the one Saten had in the beginning of Railgun)

Seeing how modem is done on tensor-based pixels I wonder if we'll have better luck with that once we get to modem bringup on GS101/GS201. It's basically just a PCIe device running it's own firmware, so it can send an interrupt to main SoC on incoming call to wake up, re-enable PCIe link and show the notification.
Show threadMoses Izumi
@elly @technobaboo
>I'm tempted to steal i2c lines from NFC, 3D print casing and make a keyboard folio to turn it into a real PDA
I find touch keyboards to be pretty okay if the keys are as wide as my fingernails (i.e f-droid's Simple Keyboard on a horizontal display) but still.

On that note: have you ever considered adding a hardware modding section to the postmarketOS and Chrultrabook websites/forums/docs?
Not only for grafting on input devices, but also building battery packs and replacing the on-board eMMC storage with SD card readers.
Feb 27 at 2:32pmWeb