I was hoping this was a phone based on the old Pine email client. :-(
PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
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> Does anyone here have experience with actually using the pinephone as a daily driver? I do. I have been using my pmOS edition as my daily driver since the day i gott it. > Just curious if this phone is actually competitive with android devices in the same price class. That depends on your needs. It is not going to have any of the proprietary app that are on Android. So, what works? - Camera: stills only - Phone cal…
> Camera: stills only Are you saying it can't record video? Curious what kind of stuff you've installed. I'm assuming I can do `$dpkg -i package.deb` and it will work?
Camera can record video, 720p will probably be a limit unless you don't mind lower than 30fps framerate.
Here's my test recording from a few weeks ago: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/vid-720.mp4
You can only encode via CPU for now, and at best you may be able to encode to x264 at the ultrafast profile. (don't remember which one is fastest, but it's the fastest one) Encoding with the fastest available profile just happens to run at 30fps, so it's still not enough to for realtime encoding even via CPU, if you account for the fact that CPU will start throttling soon after you start loading all 4 cores at once to the max.
So I recorded the above by saving raw frames. :)
Video image quality sucks of course. (that frame counter is all white uniform background in reality)
Re: PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available
#163Is it using all native driers or libhybris?
All drivers are FOSS and native.
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#164does this phone work on LTE networks?
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The obvious thing that comes to mind for fanless laptops given recent news is the Macbook Air with the M1 chip, but clearly that isn't offering a similar thing in terms of freedom and user control of the hardware/software.
I wish I could have something like MacBook Air (a durable stylish laptop to carry around for coding, writing and browsing the web wherever I go, full HD screen to fit more text, as much RAM as possible - to load complex editor/IDE configs) but 100% Linux-compatible and at a fraction of the price. Here is what I'm ready to sacrifice: I don't need fanless, I don't need crazy battery time (half a day is more than enough…
I hear some/old macbooks does support linux quite well. I think even linus was using an Air at one point in time (still?).
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#167I've been trying to run my pinephone (mobian) for more things. Since I work from home, this means mostly podcasts, and the occasional call. Well... calls don't work for me, but that might be my (secondary) SIM. I'll try it with the primary soon. Podcasts... I set up gPodder (while docked, because the UI doesn't adapt to the screen) and then use mpv to actually play the episodes which... is surprisingly usable. Next I…
regarding podcasts, I am getting a pinephone in a week or two and am building a podcast player as a side project. It is the first gui/app I have ever made and currently it cant even play anything, that is when it compiles, but if you take a look in 2 weeks I might have something (ugly and) functional. https://github.com/dskleingeld/pods
Cool.
It looks empty because there's no README.md and you could mention it's using Iced as it's ui library.
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#168Will KDE succeed where ubuntu didn't?
They have wildly different definitions of success.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Camera: stills only Are you saying it can't record video? Curious what kind of stuff you've installed. I'm assuming I can do `$dpkg -i package.deb` and it will work?
Camera can record video, 720p will probably be a limit unless you don't mind lower than 30fps framerate. Here's my test recording from a few weeks ago: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/vid-720.mp4 You can only encode via CPU for now, and at best you may be able to encode to x264 at the ultrafast profile. (don't remember which one is fastest, but it's the fastest one) Encoding with the fastest available profile just happens…
Don't mean to be nosy ha, what is the code you were working on/had on screen? Perhaps not specifics but language/context the grouping seemed interesting. (the indents are insane is it Go/Linux?)
I guess when you say "saving raw frames"... are you saying this video you made was not simple by "push record button, .mp4 comes out"?
Oh the white background comment is about the iso/bad balance?
Anyway thanks this is pretty cool... I just ordered mine so won't be able to play around with it till January.
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#170OT: 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.
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