Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-26 Thread ursmaritimus
Please do not mention this either, we had to send him half planet Cabbage before he accepted to even consider it. We do not hold it against him, though, he seems to have been quite trigger happy recently. Rumour has it that he managed to delete his own thread. The TLCDC is still inquiring

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-26 Thread andyprough
I really missed you and all your best elaborated gags when Masaru banned you. It was really nice of him to un-ban you like that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-25 Thread ursmaritimus
By the way, we are keeping some of your ant bots prisoners until we have fully managed to reverse-engineer them. We might also test their resistance with some new powerful chemical. We will not torture them, though, it is useless now. We can exchange them for a few of these giant cactuses

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-24 Thread andyprough
We have found that carpenter ants work better than a cactus.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-24 Thread ursmaritimus
Indeed. A long way from the secret giant cactus.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-24 Thread andyprough
Woah. That's some next level spycraft.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-23 Thread ursmaritimus
I have a feeling something is missing in your sentence.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-23 Thread gnii
I always make sure I have a super-secret anti-microform-functional-hologram of Mikey embedded in the html of this forum. Those are necessities for ruing stupid users who try to ruin stupid users or something.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-22 Thread ursmaritimus
I always have a secret microform copy of this forum. Those are necessities to rue stupid users or something.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-21 Thread msuzuqi
Shit, that's a troublesome issue. I think I have to create and spread a common useful English word such as motenai to discribe unpopular men ideally throughout the whole world then. I am going to paint one. Thank you anyway. I will search for the word to describe unpopular men in other

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-20 Thread ursmaritimus
> I don't think there is a word today that is accepted throughout the society to describe unpopular boys. If you are not philandering, people are not talking about you anyway.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-20 Thread andyprough
Young people today call boys who are not popular with girls "virgins" and boys who are popular with girls "Chads". The problem is that unless you are talking to a young internet user, old people would not understand. When I was young, we called such unpopular boys "nerds". But then the nerds

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-20 Thread msuzuqi
I know that is an illusion. But there are some idiots who always watch their opportunity to visit my home and if I did not take the calls from them, they could visit my home while mumbling something incomprehensible words like "I was worried about you, so I came" or something. Die. Their

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-20 Thread ursmaritimus
> I am starting to think that Pinephone might be a necessity for me since I sometimes need a mobile phone to call. That's an illusion put into your head by mobile phone manufacturers and service providers. Billions of people lived a happy life for centuries without mobile phones. Most of

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-20 Thread gnii
>Those are necessities for ruing stupid fish or something others. Those are necessities for ruing stupid x or something others. x > insert anything / has become my favorite sentence. I have been using it for days now and I am never getting tired of it. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-20 Thread msuzuqi
Sea lions... By the way, I am going to avoid more off-topic here though, very sometimes I want to use the word "men who are not popular with girls/women". But it sounds too long isn't it? I have a lot of times searched how to say the words in English shortly but there seems not to be such

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-19 Thread andyprough
You have to go on the It's a Small World puppet boat ride, it goes right through the middle of the giant Disney castle. Girlfriends like it more than Golden Gate Bridge, which is just a boring old bridge. It's not even really gold, kind of an old rusty greenish reddish coppery color.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-19 Thread msuzuqi
That's why I hate Yakuza. And you are misunderstanding. My kind of men enjoy to make a parade of our good-looking girl friends in line at Disneyland. I enjoy to see people pretending to talk while spreading spit or colona viruses or something or other at us, or old men touching my

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-19 Thread jbahn
Just want to confirm that chaosmonk's claim, that "installing a custom ROM on an Android phone is very easy." is true. I have very little technical skills/knowledge and have done it several times. The first few times I did have to go a little back and forth in the process and instructions

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-18 Thread andyprough
> I do not want to go to Disneyland with Yakuza Yakuza never have to wait in line at Disneyland. They are the best people to go with.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-18 Thread behmen
Thats like the answer that people give about holistic medicine... lol

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-18 Thread msuzuqi
I do not want to go to Disneyland with Yakuza. Why Disneyland? I want to see the Golden Gate Bridge. But Cape Canaveral is near. It might be a good idea to say good bye to them on our way home.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-18 Thread andyprough
No, the first thing I'm taking you to in America is Disneyland.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-18 Thread msuzuqi
I was wondering if you were cruising around the San Francisco Bay or somewhere for cruising for something bruising. If you got tired of fishing, or after a good catch, let's go to there. I definitely want to see the Golden Gate Bridge first if I visit the US. Definitely!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-18 Thread msuzuqi
I see. Thank you. So I am going to use the iPhone for a while until I save money. I want a satellite phone. However, we will remodel the phone case so that the battery pack can be easily detached, ideally within 10 seconds. This is one of the iPhone's biggest drawbacks. Compared to this,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread mason
> What about using firejail? How much sandboxing security does that gain me? Sorry, I don't know enough about it. It's should be better than nothing, as long as the sense of security it gives you doesn't lead you to take risks you otherwise wouldn't.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread andyprough
What about using firejail? How much sandboxing security does that gain me?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread andyprough
It's nice for fishing in my local lake.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread mason
> So there are no dependencies on those proprietary things, but the modem depends on proprietary firmware (or binary blobs?) inside of it? Yes, notice that they say there there are no "OS-loaded binary blobs" not that there are no binary blobs at all. This is often the case with hardware

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread mason
Recommended reading regarding the security issue: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2017/running-system-services-in-containers/ I think with a graphical frontend, Guix could be our best shot at solving this issue in a way that doesn't empower a freedom-hostile ecosystem like Snap or Flatpak.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread msuzuqi
I might understand. Thinkpenguin's claim. > Never worry about support after an upgrade: There are no dependencies on proprietary drivers, NDISWrapper, or other OS-loaded binary blobs. So there are no dependencies on those proprietary things, but the modem depends on proprietary firmware

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread mason
>> I'm hanging out for future versions in which cameras will have a lense cover that users can manually slide clear > That would be nice. I wonder how hard it would be to modify the back cover that way. Oh sorry, I misread what you wrote. I thought you were suggesting a sliding cover on

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread mason
> Thinkpenguin sells this modem. > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/usb-4g-lte-advanced-modem-gnulinux-tpe-usb4glte > Is not this modem proprietary? There are two kinds of software used to support hardware devices: firmware and drivers. A driver runs on your operating system and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread msuzuqi
> The one bit that is protected by law from being reverse engineered and run with free code. Thinkpenguin sells this modem. https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/usb-4g-lte-advanced-modem-gnulinux-tpe-usb4glte Is not this modem proprietary? If it is not a proprietary thing, can I replace

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread mason
> Maybe, but the X60 is in China behind a closed border, and I am in Aotearoa. Damn, that sucks. > How does Goggle get any info from an Android device that has never had a Goggle account associated with it? The OS. > Yes, but the difference is that to use my SIM in the PP, I have to have

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread strypey
Chaosmonk: > It's good enough for simple things like SMS, but don't expect to get any serious work done on it. It probably will not perform better than your netbook I expect that it will perform much better than this netbook: https://git.feneas.org/disintermedia/public-wiki/-/wikis/Bishop

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-17 Thread msuzuqi
For what?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-16 Thread behmen
I've been thinking perhaps splurging on a really big SD card, then doing some of the things mentioned in Calher's thread like offline Wiki,Books,Music,TED talks etc.. whatever reasonably fits. Keeping the phone offline mode --generally-- and switching it on when I need to make calls, but

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-16 Thread andyprough
I usually keep a secret one-man nuclear submarine.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-16 Thread mason
> I'm hoping that with a set of peripherals (screen, mouse, keyboard) it will be able to replace my ancient netbook as my work computer Dont get your hopes up. Pine64 kept the cost of the device down in part by not going with a faster computer than they needed. It's good enough for

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-16 Thread strypey
I have ordered the PostmarketOS Convergence community edition too. I'm pretty confident that after getting feedback on both the Braveheart and the Ubuntu Touch community edition, the hardware is ready to roll. I don't mind watching the software grow and improve over time, in fact I enjoy it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-12 Thread greatgnu
I always have a secret microjet. Those are necessities for ruing stupid slow people or something others.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-11 Thread ursmaritimus
Sure. I like the compact models especially.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-11 Thread msuzuqi
I always have a secret microphone. Those are necessities for ruing stupid officers or something others.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-11 Thread xliang9550
OS X (macOS) is POSIX compatible, so it's better than iOS and Android.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-09 Thread ursmaritimus
> Obviously not. OSX is POSIX certified. How does that make it free software or "open source" or "linux based"? Keep in mind it is important to avoid mixing things up in order to retain credibility.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-09 Thread xliang9550
Obviously not. Keep in mind that Android is a malicious, hostile operating system. Don't be fooled by "open source" or "Linux (kernel) based".

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-09 Thread ursmaritimus
> I'm the type of person that carries a point-and-shoot in my pocket each and every day. Me too. https://trisquel.info/files/point_and_shoot.jpg

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-08 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 8.8.2020 6:30, beh...@protonmail.com wrote: > LOL I'm the type of person that tapes mine up, totally not a deal breaker. I'm the type of person that carries a point-and-shoot in my pocket each and every day. -- Caleb Herbert KE0VVT (816) 892-9669 https://bluehome.net/csh signature.asc

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-08 Thread publiclewdness
Yeah what sold me on the convergence was the 3GB of RAM and 32GB storage. Both should help with the choppines hopefully.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-08 Thread ursmaritimus
Isn't Android POSIX compliant?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-08 Thread behmen
>For one the camera still doesn't work LOL I'm the type of person that tapes mine up, totally not a deal breaker. >Also outside of Ubuntu Touch many of the distros are pretty choppy for performance still. Is it like early versions of Android/Palmphones/Blackberry touchscreens that would

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-08 Thread xliang9550
Whether postmarketOS uses glibc of musl is less important. What is important is that postmarketOS is POSIX compliant.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-07 Thread publiclewdness
I own the Braveheart Pinephone and placed an order for a Convergence edition with PostMarket OS a couple days ago. On my Braveheart I have mainly used Ubuntu Touch but have dabbled with Manjaro Arm and KDE Neon. I'll do some checking with the Braveheart about Rhythmbox on the different

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-06 Thread mason
> There aren't many options for GNU/Linux on arm/64 devices (smart phones, tablets), and PostmarketOS is good enough PostmarketOS is a musl/Linux distribution, not GNU/Linux.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-06 Thread xliang9550
There aren't many options for GNU/Linux on arm/64 devices (smart phones, tablets), and PostmarketOS is good enough. If the PinePhone community edition is still available, don't miss it. There are no shortage of Android-based distributions, but very few GNU-based distributions for arm/64

[Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-05 Thread behmen
Has anyone yet purchased the community edition of the pinephone? I remember seeing Chaosmonk's braveheart review, I haven't really been following progress on the phone since March because I figured production lines would be halted. "The preinstalled postmarketOS software build which ships