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* Outline
** Introduction
*** What is a Linux Phone?
*** Why did I want one?
**** Enter: my old phones
**** Android Grievances
- System UI freezes very frequently, makes phone inoperable
- Poor integration with external SD
- Random kernel panics.. as to be expected on a (3.10.108-lineageos-g6f027fb1e3f non-mainline kernel)?
- SD Card problem. Hard to capture as screenshots since it doesn't let me take them when it happens
- Explain how you're using SD's
**** Could be solved by getting a better-supported phone, but that's expensive!
**** Software Development Freedom
**** Run Linux Desktop Apps
=openxcom= is one of a few examples I care about
*** Enter: Pinephone
*** PostmarketOS (with mention of some other distros for the Pinephone)
I am a Gentoo fan, but I haven't had a great time with
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PinePhone
I like Alpine a lot, though. It strikes me as similar to Gentoo in a lot of the
ways I care about (fairly easy to bootstrap, ...)
*** Some Other options (Halium, etc.)
- Shout out SqueakPhone.
- "I think we're in the golden age of open hacking on mobile devices."
** The Initial Transition
*** Factorytest
- =motor= test did not work
- However, it worked in PMOS.
- Some finicky-ness with the modem :(
*** 3D Printed Case
*** Screen Protector
- Got some for the iPhone X
*** Mobile Data
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_APN_Settings#AT.26T_.28USA.29
Curiously, I went to icanhazip.com and I was given an IPv6 address in response.
First time that's happened to me, ever.
*** Storage
Start off by installing to EMMC, then mount 256G SD as OverlayFS on /home, /opt
*** Mostly worked Out-of-the-Box
*** Litmus: Being Able to Show a Picture of Fred Durst at the Thanksgiving Dinner Table
*** Roles of Applications
# Obviously, I'm not going to be using Android applications for the daily tasks that I use my phone for.
**** Raw List
+andOTP+
+AntennaPod+
AnySoftKeyboard
+App Manager+
AudioFX
+Aurora Store+
+BackgroundRestrictor+
Browser|Not used|
aAVNC
Calculator
Calendar
Calendar Import-Export
+Camera+
Clock
Contacts
Conversations
DCU
Discord
Email|Not used
F-Droid
FFUpdater
Files
Firefox
FM Radio
+Gallery+
K-9 Mail
Libera PRO
Messaging
MuPDF mini
Music
NewPipe
Obsqr
Offline Calendar
OpenKeychain
Orbot
Orgzly
OsmAnd~
Password Store
+Phone+
Recorder
RetroArch
Settings
Shattered Pixel Dungeons
Signal
Slide
Snapchat
Syncthing
Termux
Tiny Tiny RSS
Tusky
USAA
wallabag
Wikipedia
**** Table
| andOTP | gnome-authenticator | https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=authenticator |
| Camera | Megapixels | https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=megapixels |
| Gallery | gnome-photos | https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=gnomephotos |
| Phone | Calls | https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=calls |
Dropping:
- AntennaPod: I'll just use an RSS reader.
- App Manager: Android-specific
- Aurora Store: Android-specific
- BackgroundRestrictor: Android-specific
** Issues Encountered
*** Modem: Frequent Disconnects, not receiving calls
Contingency: Custom modem firmware
- Disabled automatic suspends
Modem has been the single most frustrating part about using the PP.
- I find it funny that the ADSP firmwares are blobs we just found somewhere; Quectel doesn't officially publish them.
With the news that Quectel could potentially be locking down their hardware and preventing users from flashing their own firmware, all I have to say further about the modem is...
# [Linus Torvalds FUCK YOU NVIDIA]
See (Toomanyatoms) for further evidence of Quectel's absolute incompetence.
The sad thing is, there probably won't be this much work on other modems for a while. This Quectel piece of shit will probably be the best supported modem in e.g. PostmarketOS for the foreseeable future.
# Unless...
*** Occasional Non-Wake from Suspend
- Configured syslogd to write to disk, waiting to debug. [TODO].
*** Suspend Prevents Alarm from Going off
Contingency: Modem firmware can do a "wake-up call"
*** Battery Life
- Power draw has been attributed to four separate chips (https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2021/12/10/comparing-l5-and-pp/)
*** Mobile hotspot not working
- Laptop can connect, but internet is not passed through.
- Apparently a kernel issue: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10974
- Easier solution for the time being has been to use [[https://github.com/rofl0r/microsocks][microsocks]], since I can
connect to my phone via hotspot at least.
*** Lack of software
- Write your own!
- I had to write my own Signal client...
*** Cross Compiling Woes
- Literally could not get gnome-authenticator to work
- Quality control for packages seems to be much less than Gentoo
- Spending literally a day trying to compile Emacs PGTK
- It ain't Gentoo
** Quality-of-Life
*** Being able to use Emacs on mobile
- Any particular use-cases that are well supported?
# Necessary talking point: I've literally edited this blog post using Emacs from my bed while the gf was asleep on me.
# "You might expect Emacs on mobile to be a bit of a Gimmick, but it's the application I use the second most, right after Firefox"
# - Attribute this to Syncthing or rsync making it easy to get config over, not the casse in Termux
# - Also icons make it a little bit nicer for touch input
*** Being able to use yt-dlp and mpv instead of New Pipe
*** Running scripts, cron, other automation
*** Contacting phone over SSH
*** Considerations: dotfiles on mobile vs desktop
*** Convergence
** Software Development; Porting
#In non-QT land, you have two options:
#- gtk3 and libhandy
#- gtk4 and libadwaita
#There used to be anti-GTK sentiment, but these days it rocks
** Community
*** Malware
** Social Implications
# I appreciate my partner's willingness to put up with me using a weird phone
# that can't do anything.
# Can't use Uber.. but I didn't really use Uber anyway with my non-gApps smartphone.
** Surveying Others' Opinions on the Pinephone
** My Dream Cellphone
** Conclusion
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