FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk

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Post by lupyuen » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 1:23 AM UTC

FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk
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Re: FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk

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Post by pierat » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 4:28 AM UTC

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Re: FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk

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Post by candiddevmike » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 5:00 AM UTC

pierat wrote: post #2

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I've been burned twice by Line. First with the PineBook Pro, spent months trying to get it in an acceptable spot with Debian by piecing together reddit posts, obscure forums, kernel mailing lists... Complete disaster. Then I tried the PineTime, this one was less of a mess trying to get it to work, but only because it has been effectively abandoned--waspos is dead, infinitime is getting there, and neither offer an easy on ramp for someone to take them over.

Really shows that open source hardware vendors are useless if they aren't also open source software vendors.

Re: FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk

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Post by NewJazz » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 5:04 AM UTC

pierat wrote: post #2

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My latest couple gripes are:

* revision 2 of the rock64 has an issue with running the ram at the highest speed, but there is no open source implementation of firmware for lower speed ram. So I can't run a full open source TF-A / U-Boot stack.

* pinetab 2 has some noname WiFi chipset without any hope for mainline drivers, literally will need an out of tree module for the main networking of the device. Why didn't they just use a replaceable e key m.2 module??

Re: FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk

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Post by Ologn » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 5:11 AM UTC

Bought a PineTime for $27 plus shipping. Wear it while running to measure my BPM. I send the BPM to the Gadgetbridge Android app via Bluetooth. Upgraded Infinitime via Bluetooth. Have not messed around with the OS code yet.

Have been happy so far.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 5:19 AM UTC

pierat wrote: post #2

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Post by saidinesh5 » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 6:02 AM UTC

pierat wrote: post #2

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Not sure about other things but I like my pinecil so far. It is cheap, well built, works as advertised.

Re: FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk

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Post by squarefoot » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 6:52 AM UTC

pierat wrote: post #2

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What are you talking about? They're extremely clear when some hardware is aimed at developers and code is not yet ready for users, which for example is the case of the PineNote. https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-developer-edition/

Re: FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk

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Post by squarefoot » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 6:53 AM UTC

saidinesh5 wrote: post #7

pierat wrote: post #2

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Not sure about other things but I like my pinecil so far. It is cheap, well built, works as advertised.

Have one as well from the 1st edition and found it surprisingly good for the price.

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Post by nalllar » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 7:25 AM UTC

pierat wrote: post #2

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I really like my pinetime. It has way better battery life than android wearos watches - 2 weeks! - and does the few things I actually need, showing the time, alarms and notifications.