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I wonder, what's the difference between this and all the distro-flavored versions there were before?
It appears that this version has 32GB eMMC storage vs 16GB and has 3GB SDRAM vs 2GB.
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@rorykoehler It's the most well known non capitalist society.
China is a capitalist state in all but name.
In other words, "communism" is an authoritarian/dictatorial political system that masquerades as an economic system until it doesn't have to put up with any dissent, at which point it goes back to "capitalism." (State or Party or whatever. I think they call their version "with chinese characteristics" in the west.)
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To take one example: the interaction with your bank goes through a web-browser, I suppose? You probably need a special device for 2FA? In most bank apps, you can simply log in using a PIN-code and do things like check your balance, make small wire transfers, and make payments in stores through NFC. Doing these things in a web-browser on a mobile phone with a separate 2FA device is much more cumbersome. (I use Linux e…
:shrug: I don't have a bank app installed on my phone right now. And there are absolutely going to be Open Source 2FA apps being built for Pinephone, so I'm good there. Currently, I don't use a banking app because I don't trust my bank to have that level of access to my phone with a proprietary app, and because my bank's app isn't particularly good in the first place. So I'm not really losing out by using Pinephone.…
You can find a bigger list of apps in https://www.plasma-mobile.org/. There is a few still missing that I will try to add later.
I'd much prefer a list of phones where people have been able to crack the bootloader open completely and then I can just install Linux on top of it. Not a big fan of extremely old hardware which would never be able to keep up with what I can get out of a Raspberry Pi. In fact, how feasible is it to create a hat for the Raspberry Pi compute module which operates effectively as a mobile phone. Like you would an obvious…
There's also an Arduino one: https://learn.adafruit.com/arduin-o-phone-arduino-powered-di...
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One could argue that it is exactly this financial incentive that causes all the mislabeled useless apps on the app stores.
>financial incentive ? ... financial incentives is the motivation for most labor.
Thus widespread availability of "labor of love" open source software, and the relative crappiness of a lot of commercial software.
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>financial incentive ? ... financial incentives is the motivation for most labor.
Research has actually indicated that the link between financial incentives and motivation to work is actually very small: https://hbr.org/2013/04/does-money-really-affect-motiv Thus widespread availability of "labor of love" open source software, and the relative crappiness of a lot of commercial software.
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>financial incentive ? ... financial incentives is the motivation for most labor.
Financial incentives redirect labour from useful to profitable activities.
Does it allow to call phones and send SMS? This seems like a silly question, but I know that some version of Librem didn't and nobody mentioned it in their reviews.
I'm sorry... maybe I'm missing something here. Hasn't this 'phone' been in the news for over 2 years?
Is auto call recording possible?