Joe Bidet

cmus

welcome home! <3

don’t use it if you’re flying a plane, though!

newsboat <3

to edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT all night long

for sms+calls to work much much there i a little bit of very easy work: to install the “modem distro” instead of the original OS running the modem chip. yes it means you can ssh into your modem and edit its crontab also…:)

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk

Sorry if i am late to that party, but i have been daily-driving a pinephone for 4+ years now. 1/ It’s not for the faint of heart. it is work. serious admin work. 2/ i chose a hard line of PostMarketOS edge (equiv of debian “unstable” updated continuously) and sxmo (a lovely, experimental interface, fully hackable, lightweight etc.) 3/ most of the shortcomings described by people who tried it only or expected a lot from it are related to comparing it to android or ios. it’s a mistake i think. it should be treated as its own thing, with no expectations, and most of the shortcomings can be fixed by adaptation and custom work… for me: most tasks via CLI (mail, matrix, mastodon, etc.) and lightweight browser, combined with lightweight interface (sxmo) considerably extend battery life. in suspend i get 48h (which is more than most android phones i used before) and with moderat use it lasts way over 24h for me.

I would totally recommend it IF you value computing freedom, autonomy and taking back control of your communication infrastructure and data more than an ideal of “comfort” or standardized streamlined processes modeled after the ones that put everyone in the hands of big US corporations (aka “user-friendly” lol)

Also that feeling that whatever tiny bit you may invent, fix or hack for yourself, can be put back into a wild community of avid trailblazing hackers is invaluable. Yes it’s all work, but it’s work for you and other people who value freedom. not work for Google and such…

Let’s start mirroring and torrenting full ROMsets!

Image from https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 by Nina Paley

I use a PinePhone (non-pro) as a daily-driver for 4+ years now. Sure it runs well. Just depends by what you mean by “linux”. If you use firefox and KDE you’re gonna suffer and complain about battery life.

If you’re ready to work a bit to make it custom and very frugal (in my case: pmos + sxmo) and use mostly CLI and TUI applications, then you can get a lot from it. I use links -g for a majority of my browsing, tut for the fediverse, aerc, gomuks, etc. for communications. heck there is even a simplex CLI client.

It’s exciting, it’s customized and i find it 10x more interesting than #$%!ndroid. and i make my backups through rsync. but it’s for sure a bit of work…

thank you for your thank you! <3

do you think a company like cloudlare.com, that injects its javascript in between given site and you, will hesitate one second before transmitting its data with the FBI (or any other police), and help them tracking users down?

WARNING: contains some cloudflare.com

The thing I find hard to convey is that FLOSS software is superior to proprietary software for many reasons, most of which are non-technical: FLOSS software is superior to proprietary software if it isn’t spying on you, if it’s governance is collective, if it’s not build to make you pay for things that should be free, if it lets you decide where your data goes, etc…

we’re often missing the point when we attempt at side-by-side comparison of FLOSS and proprietary software… It’s usually one-dimentional, and playing on our opponent’s field: these companies racketing their users based on rent-based exploitative business models will always have more resources than independant developpers to improve “UX/UI”… so I think this must not be the only prism through which reading these things.

Inkscape?