I could fall in love with such a phone. One where I can easily run Python processes inside screen sessions, which gather GPS and other sensor data for rapid prototyping, stream that data over a WebSocket connection, then some Bluetooth stuff in Go. Computing stuff.
PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
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Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#42For the record, I received yesterday the new mainboard that will be in those phones to replace the one of my pinephone UBport edition. The boost in RAM (3gb instead of 2gb) does the trick for me, allowing to use firefox. Not to the point that the experience is even close to android, but at least usable (before that, I used elinks on the phone). The system I use (mobian/phosh) still feels sluggish, but I suspect it's…
I grew up in the C64 days - I still can't get my head around the fact that you need 3gb of RAM because 2gb is not enough to run a webbrowser these days.
I know that what's going on on a typical website these days requires an enormous amount of computational power, but I mean, come on. That shouldn't be the explanation, it's part of the problem.
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#43For the record, I received yesterday the new mainboard that will be in those phones to replace the one of my pinephone UBport edition. The boost in RAM (3gb instead of 2gb) does the trick for me, allowing to use firefox. Not to the point that the experience is even close to android, but at least usable (before that, I used elinks on the phone). The system I use (mobian/phosh) still feels sluggish, but I suspect it's…
Have you tried Sxmo? It's a very lightweight UI based on suckless programs but seems like it would make the phone functions calls, sms, very intuitive & easy to access. It's based on postmarketOS anything supporting that should also work.
https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone_Software_Release...
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#44OT: Is Pinebook worth it to RDP with remmina? I'm currently using a fanless 13.5" Acer B115m but It's getting old and deteriorated (the screen plastic is peeling off...). I've been trying to find a replacement, but with better screen, which my main complaint about the B115m (I use it mainly outdoors with 4g, I need brightness), but most laptops use fans, which I'm trying to avoid. Had no luck in the <500€ range.
Try to find a used Dell Latitude 7370. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Latitude-13-7370-Ultraboo...
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#45> $199 — 3GB RAM; 32GB eMMC (includes a bundled USB-C dock)
This could basically be a daily use PC + Phone for 199$? Quite impressive.
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#46I love KDE, it's been my daily driver since I had to reinstall a desktop in a hurry and my awesome-wm config was too old. Dolphin et gwenview are speed killers (I love Gnome's ethos but Nautilus is a snail and is missing many features I use hourly). Can the KDE pinephone be used as handheld computer for reading PDF, taking pictures, scanning bills and invoices, media player and that kind of things ? I am not ready to…
I got a landline when I switched to the pinephone and set it up to ring both. I do miss MMS messages but people who really need to get to me call or email me.
did you use mms in 2019-2020? where are you?
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#47I can't believe KDE can be run in a phone, when I tried to run KDE in my desktop it always felt sluggish and unstable
I'm using KDE for years, and it's a great collection of software. The main issue I have about performances is Akonadi, it's eating CPU, memory and lot of disk space (and I have disabled files indexing in settings, as I don't need it, so I don't get why it's taking GiO), so I often just kill the server and it works well after that.
By the way, does anybody know a method to disable it cleanly, or at least make it for resources friendly? The article I've found after quick search are years old and not relevant anymore.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another Ubuntu based distro with KDE, and one that I think most people haven’t heard about, but which I am personally fond of is KDE’s own KDE Neon. > More than ever people expect a stable desktop with cutting-edge features, all in a package which is easy to use and ready to make their own. > KDE neon is the intersection of these needs using a stable Ubuntu long-term release as its core, packaging the hottest softwar…
I've found KDE Neon to be WAY more stable than Kubuntu. And this has been the case on multiple LTS versions. I just think this is odd since, in theory, they should only differ by the KDE apps that are installed.
Primal Penguin explains the differences here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_rP3ZaTn5Y
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#49For the record, I received yesterday the new mainboard that will be in those phones to replace the one of my pinephone UBport edition. The boost in RAM (3gb instead of 2gb) does the trick for me, allowing to use firefox. Not to the point that the experience is even close to android, but at least usable (before that, I used elinks on the phone). The system I use (mobian/phosh) still feels sluggish, but I suspect it's…
I grew up in the C64 days - I still can't get my head around the fact that you need 3gb of RAM because 2gb is not enough to run a webbrowser these days. I know that what's going on on a typical website these days requires an enormous amount of computational power, but I mean, come on. That shouldn't be the explanation, it's part of the problem.
Any content you see on the screen hasn't changed at all.
On a typical website all of the analytics are causing page bloat.
Sometimes there are frameworks like bootstrap but hypothetically those should be cached.
If you are looking at a web application then it has a framework that is a magnitude higher and the rest of it you see a significant increase.
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#50> $199 — 3GB RAM; 32GB eMMC (includes a bundled USB-C dock) This could basically be a daily use PC + Phone for 199$? Quite impressive.
"Daily use" might be a biiit of a stretch with this hardware, but it'll be functional.
I think Pinephone 2, whenever that happens, will be a much more practical convergence device. Pine64's plans to upgrade to the RK3566 SOC in their low-power devices look very promising.