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Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop

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Post by terminaljunkid »

hyperpallium wrote: post #50
IIAOPSW wrote: post #11

This is exactly what I've wanted phones to become for years. It honestly amazes / pisses me off that I can't buy something like this off the shelf. Maybe I'll bite the bullet and piss away a few hours on rom flashing to get /e/ on my phone.

I guess you're aware of http://termux.com ? It's effectively a linux distribution for android (with a large repository of packages), that uses the existing android kernel. So no rooting required, and has the power efficiency of android.

I literally got into CSE because of termux, at the time I didn't even have a PC..

Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop

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Post by csagan5 »

> /e/ has modified the source code of various parts of AOSP and Chromium web browser to stop informing Google (and the NSA as a consequence of CLOUD Act) of user activity.

The article is incorrect also about the browser: it is simply packing a re-branded Bromite browser.

Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop

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Post by masklinn »

mirimir wrote: post #49
craftinator wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. I've used the H264 encoder/decoder in lossless mode on the raspi3 compress large amounts of sensor data. You just need to format the data into image frames. It worked very well, and ended up being bottlenecked by the io bandwidth of the system.

Does raspi3 have real gigabit Ethernet?

No, that's a headline feature of 4.

3B+ has a GigE adapter working over USB2 so you can get ~200Mbps, on other models you can get an off-board adapter providing much better performances than the on-board one but still not "real GigE": https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gig...

Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop

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Post by csagan5 »

csagan5 wrote: post #92

> /e/ has modified the source code of various parts of AOSP and Chromium web browser to stop informing Google (and the NSA as a consequence of CLOUD Act) of user activity. The article is incorrect also about the browser: it is simply packing a re-branded Bromite browser.

Edit: the article has been kindly edited, thanks to the author

Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop

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Post by smetsjp »

rbanffy wrote: post #79

Isn't Nexedi the guys who make a really nice ERP on top of the Zope platform?

Yes.

https://www.nexedi.com/NXD-Presentation.Status.Roadmap?porta...

Our story with /e/ is that we decided that it would make more sense to invest some cash in /e/ (we did it) than try to maintain NayuOS now that most ChromeOS users expect to run Android apps (and this part is not in ChromiumOS AFAIK).

Also, we observed a growing need for some kind of "desktop OS" for industrial applications (robotics, industrial automation) that does not depend on Google APIs (factories are often in China or do not have Internet access).

/e/ thus made a lot of sense.

Note: I the author of the post.

Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop

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Post by rbanffy »

smetsjp wrote: post #95
rbanffy wrote: post #79

Isn't Nexedi the guys who make a really nice ERP on top of the Zope platform?

Yes. https://www.nexedi.com/NXD-Presentation.Status.Roadmap?porta... Our story with /e/ is that we decided that it would make more sense to invest some cash in /e/ (we did it) than try to maintain NayuOS now that most ChromeOS users expect to run Android apps (and this part is not in ChromiumOS AFAIK). Also, we observed a growing need for some kind of "desktop OS" for industrial applications (robotics, industrial aut…

It's funny. At the company I work for we have a system of record that, while built on completely different tech, reminds me of Zope a lot. I guess the problems both platforms try to solve are so similar we see convergent evolution.
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