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> We need the critical role of Open Source maintainer to professionalize. Do we? I do open source work and maintainership, and am happy that this is outside the control and influen…

Interesting. What's your setup for sharing peripherals between your PinePhone dock and your laptop/desktop?

Yes. The state of the art is: * biktorg's firmware (now flash able via GNOME Firmware or fwupdmgr) * NetworkManager with --test-quick-resume-suspend flag. * Crust/ATF as platform f…

+1 https://www.pine64.org/2022/01/31/pinephone-community-poll-r... shows most PinePhone users don't use the CLI-based interface.

Advice for anyone considering it: * There are rough edges, but the basics are there: calling/SMS/4G/WiFi/audio/browsing/suspend. * If you want to try it, put https://xnux.eu/p-boot…

+1. This is my primary source for keeping up to date, along with https://www.pine64.org/blog/

> This hasn't been a real benefit for years. Exit nodes are running at something like 10% capacity. https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html corroborates what you say ab…

> https://hstspreload.org/ offers the same benefits. You are guaranteed to be connected to what you expect - or not at all. TLS/HSTS is still subject to CA attacks, e.g. diginotar.…

No, since the redirect only works in the Tor Browser, in which case the cleartext connection is still a Tor connection.

It's great to see cross-distro activity in removing the burden from distributions of packaging different builds of u-boot. I use Tow-Boot on my Pine64 RockPro64, with a plain NixOS…