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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 about it so I cannot comment further. We have a feeling you might have missed this post of ours, for some reasons it got both unduly indented: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-9-etiona-0?page=1#comment-151656
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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.
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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 you busted. Of course they are not ours but we have a deep interest in herbology, as you know.
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We have found that carpenter ants work better than a cactus.
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Indeed. A long way from the secret giant cactus.
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Woah. That's some next level spycraft.
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I have a feeling something is missing in your sentence.
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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.
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I always have a secret microform copy of this forum. Those are necessities to rue stupid users or something.
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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 languages too. By the way, if you are "motemote", that means you are super popular with girls/women, you don't have to make so much an effort to undress girls because the women side undresses themselves, if I borrow Kenji Nakagami's cool expression again[1]. If you are said "kimoi" from girls, that means "creepy", you are physiologically unacceptable. I think the first step is to stop peeping or tracking or other creepy activities but it would be inherently impossible so there is no chance, unfortunately, for both. Shit, please do something. [1] "The Thousands of Pleasure": chapter one "The Bird of Hanzou" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%83%E5%B9%B4%E3%81%AE%E6%84%89%E6%A5%BD
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> 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.
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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 became the rich people, so they became very popular. So I don't think there is a word today that is accepted throughout the society to describe unpopular boys.
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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 purpose is to peep or blatantly stare at inside of my home you know and I really, really, from the bottom of my heart, want to break off relations with them but if you live in a society, it is hard to do that you know. So I need a mobile phone. If I could break off those all relations, I would not need such a Pinephone, really. Therefore, I want to know how to say the "men who are unpopular with girls" shortly in English. Surely, if I did not have a mobile phone, I would be able to live a very happier life you know.
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> 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 them did not have internet either.
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>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. :)
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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 an useful short adjective. Is there a good slung or something? In Japanese, there is. "Motenai" men means men who are not popular with girls. Moteru men means men who are popular with girls.
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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. However, on the pier near the Golden Gate Bridge is very much fun - that's where the sea lions sun themselves. I will take you there.
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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 girlfriend's ass, of course unintentionally, or other any kind of original, kind of artistic malicious actions. Compared to the enjoyment, riding on a stupid machine in the Haunted Mansion or the Haunted Mansion, or the space ship is merely something like a giveaway. If I was obviously looked like a member of the Yakuza in the line, no one would show even a slight malice. That's boring. I go to the Golden Gate Bridge. Disneyland is fantasy but the bridge is real. However, I am starting to think that I might want to go to Disneyland. The last time I went TDL was more than 10 years ago... it were painful memories, I would write about it in Troll Lounge.
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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 and occasionally an install fails. That said, it really is very easy. Go on with it!
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> 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.
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Thats like the answer that people give about holistic medicine... lol
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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.
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No, the first thing I'm taking you to in America is Disneyland.
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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!
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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, the problem of the kill switches of Pinephone would be something like giving a kite an eggplant.
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> 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.
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What about using firejail? How much sandboxing security does that gain me?
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It's nice for fishing in my local lake.
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> 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 peripherals like monitors too. Any device that has software running on it either comes with that software, or has that software provided by the OS. > If so, what are the merits of the modem? I don't know enough about what kinds of modems are available, so I don't know if this one is anything special or not. It should work with Trisquel. > Can I call with this X200 and Trisquel if I install the modem? I think the way it would normally be used is to use cell towers for Internet access on a laptop, not necessarily to make calls. It should be possible to make calls though, with the right software. I'm not sure what that would be though. There is a package called "modem-manager-gui" that might be useful. Note that if you use one of these modems, it will allow your cell carrier to track you just like a cell phone modem.
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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.
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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 (or binary blobs) inside of it? If so, what are the merits of the modem?
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>> 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 the back panel in order to more easily access the kill switches.
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> 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 controls the device. Firmware runs the device itself. Sometimes firmware needs to be provided by the operating system and loaded onto the device. For example, if you try to use most WiFi cards with Trisquel, they won't work because Trisquel doesn't have copies of the firmware for those cards. However, sometimes the firmware is already installed on the computer inside the device, so the operating system does not need to provide it. ThinkPenguin's modem works with Trisquel because the driver is free software, and the proprietary firmware is already on the device so Trisquel does not need to provide a copy of it. There is still proprietary firmware on the device, just not provided by Trisquel.
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> 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 the Pinephone's modem with this Sicnkpenguin's modem? But if it is not proprietary, why Pinephone uses the proprietary modem? > I'm hanging out for future versions in which cameras will have a lense cover that users can manually slide clear You can put a piece of tape or a sticker or something on the camera lenses. It seems to be pretty common in Serbia, but not in Japan though.
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> 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 its cell modem turned on. If I don't, I can leave it turned off, and that's one less piece of proprietary code in use on the device. The one bit that is protected by law from being reverse engineered and run with free code. Why did you buy the Pinephone then? The point of it is to be a phone. It sounds like you should have bought a laptop. For $300 you could have a *way* better computer than you'll get by plugging your PP into peripherals. And if you're just using an Android device's modem instead of the Pinephone's modem you are no more private or free, probably less so. > It doesn't appear so, and since I have no experience with replacing the OS on an Android device, I've been unwilling to risk a hack that *might* work (and might brick the device). Once I have the PP, I expect I'll have two Android devices I no longer depend on (I can put my NZ SIM in my Chinese Oppo with my Chinese SIM if I have to), so I might try some experiments. Don't let Technoethical's prices fool you. Installing a custom ROM on an Android phone is very easy. You do need a compatible device though. Don't try installing an incompatible ROM. > I've heard this claim a few times. I've never seen any reason to believe it. ELI5 Linux and much of GNU are C. C is not a memory-safe programming language, which means that things[1] can happen with memory that are not supposed to. For example, a program might use a chunk of memory and then stop using it, but those bytes are still there, and then a malicious program might access that same chunk of memory and use those bytes to do things. Ideally programs would not be able to access each other's resources so that this would not happen, but Linux gives every process it runs the same permissions as the user that asks it to start the process, with no sandboxing in between them. This is why running things as root is very dangerous, but even running things as normal user is somewhat dangerous. For servers, this can be addressed by creating per-application users, where each user only has permission to run its application. Security-critical server applications are often packaged this way. Even on a desktop system, if you look at "/etc/passwd" to see a list of users on your system, you will probably see a bunch of usernames that are not yours and that you didn't create. These are being used to run different processes in isolation. However, users typically run desktop applications as themselves, so each application has permission to do anything that the user has permission to do. This is not secure, although since there are not very many people using GNU/Linux as a desktop system it is not a very popular target to attack (unlike GNU/Linux servers, which are very common and very popular to attack, hence isolation between processes being taken more seriously for server applications). Android uses the same kernel as GNU/Linux, but is also used by many people and is popular to attack, and it has something called an "app store", which is kind of like a distro's repository, if your distro were a terrible cesspool of proprietary malware, so it implements isolation of applications be design. You know how you can go into Android's settings and give different applications permission to do certain things, like access certain files and or your camera or microphone? Have you ever wondered why Trisquel doesn't have something like that in its settings? It's because all applications run with the same permissions as the user that runs them, so they only way to prevent them from accessing something is to remove your own access (keep those files on another medium, put tape over your camera, etc). There are some works in progress to implement sandboxing for desktop GNU/Linux. Flatpak and Snap have some basic sandboxing. Whonix appears to be working on something[2] that will make it easy to run desktop applications as separate users the way server applications often are. Guix has a very cool containers feature. But there isn't yet a user-friendly, secure, and adopted sandboxing mechanism for GNU/Linux like there is for Android. Does that mean the Pinephone is bad? No, it is what it purports to be: an inexpensive, hackable phone capable of running GNU/Linux with the minimal amount of proprietary crap needed to have a decent smartphone (the modem, since modems have to be non-free, and WiFi, since the WiFi cards with free firmware would quickly drain a phone's battery). Unlike Purism, Pine64 has not claimed to be security-focused. Hopefully by the time mobile or desktop GNU/Linux
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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 Especially given all the physical aches and pains the poor thing has. The battery is down to 20% capacity (according to Trisquel), the mains power is loose and often falls out, the headphone socket no longer works reliably, and the WiFi becomes unreliable when the devices is used for longer than a few minutes at at time (I suspect due to heat). I maxed out the RAM to 2GB, but the Convergence edition of the PP has 3GB. I'd be very surprised if even the weakest modern processor isn't more powerful than a 32-bit 1.6 Ghz Atom, even a dual core. > and certainly not better than your X60. Maybe, but the X60 is in China behind a closed border, and I am in Aotearoa. So it was either the PinePhone or buying a used laptop for NZ$100-200, which I'll then have no use for when we return to China. For NZ$300 I get a mobile device I can use with peripherals, which is what I do with laptops when I have a stable studio space anyway. > This will be the same whether your use the Pinephone's modem or the Android device's modem. Yes, but the difference is that to use my SIM in the PP, I have to have its cell modem turned on. If I don't, I can leave it turned off, and that's one less piece of proprietary code in use on the device. The one bit that is protected by law from being reverse engineered and run with free code. > However, adding an Android device into adds an additional attack vector: now Google gets has all that information too, plus a little bit more, which an additional govt (USA) will have pretty easy access too. How does Goggle get any info from an Android device that has never had a Goggle account associated with it? > Are any of your Android devices supported by any ungoogled Android ROMS? It doesn't appear so, and since I have no experience with replacing the OS on an Android device, I've been unwilling to risk a hack that *might* work (and might brick the device). Once I have the PP, I expect I'll have two Android devices I no longer depend on (I can put my NZ SIM in my Chinese Oppo with my Chinese SIM if I have to), so I might try some experiments. > That would make those devices a better option, more secure overall than the Pinephone I've heard this claim a few times. I've never seen any reason to believe it. ELI5 > Pinephone has the advantage that you can use the hardware switch to disable the modem sometimes I was initially excited by this, but it seems that with the initial models you have to take the back off the device to get at these switches, which makes them almost useless. I'm hanging out for future versions in which cameras will have a lense cover that users can manually slide clear when they want to use the cameras, and the mic, cell modem, WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth, will also have hardware switches under an easily opened panel, on the outside of the device.
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For what?
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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 this strategy might fail because people will not be able to reach me. I'm not too keen on this. Geolocation + Call records + Internet history are the only attack vectors from the government I can see for an active SIM pinephone. I suppose VPN or tor use could mitigate the internet logging and DNS records kept. Since 3-point triangulation is how other phones communicate with yours I don't see any way of avoiding geolocation vector without burners. Call records could be mitigated by using an encrypted online-call system, all free of course. About what you said on threat models, I realize that the Gov is inevitable because they not only have the resources but also they have the willpower and very many attack vectors including cell + internet companies but also google and apple and perhaps so many more, so preventing government tracking completely would be to go offline permanently. I don't wish to do this but I have been thinking of continuing to carry my iPhone without a sim, connecting to a wifi hotspot from the pinephone. Only for circumstances in which I would require non-free stuff. That way anything that the iPhone wants to communicate out-- can get caught in a firewall on the pinephone. I'm also a pragmatist in that, if in a moment I need a working phone in haste, I would not hesitate to swap out the sim from the pinephone to donate to the iPhone or any iphone nearby really. I'm thinking in the event that it crashes. Any suggestions? I already ordered one :)
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I usually keep a secret one-man nuclear submarine.
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> 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 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, and certainly not better than your X60. > That said, I'm also considering turning off the cell modem in the PinePhone and using it as a small tablet, and keeping one of the Androids for cell calls and texts. Since the cell modem is a proprietary black box by law, those comms are inherently compromised, and it seems a shame to have the nonfree cell modem software in the PinePhone running when I don't need to. What is your threat model? For an average threat model, the attack vector allowed by using the modem is that your cell carrier can track your location and metadata for your phone calls and texts, and that your government can probably get that information from the carrier pretty easily if they want to (I'm not familiar with the laws in NZ, but in the US the govt doesn't even need a warrant to do this). This will be the same whether your use the Pinephone's modem or the Android device's modem. However, adding an Android device into adds an additional attack vector: now Google gets has all that information too, plus a little bit more, which an additional govt (USA) will have pretty easy access too. Are any of your Android devices supported by any ungoogled Android ROMS? GrapheneOS is the best, but supports very few devices. That would make those devices a better option, more secure overall than the Pinephone, although in terms of location tracking, Pinephone has the advantage that you can use the hardware switch to disable the modem sometimes, so you can have a little more granularity in how you handle the privacy/convenience tradeoff of giving away your location in order to access cell towers.
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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. 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, as well as replacing my various old Androids for most purposes. That said, I'm also considering turning off the cell modem in the PinePhone and using it as a small tablet, and keeping one of the Androids for cell calls and texts. Since the cell modem is a proprietary black box by law, those comms are inherently compromised, and it seems a shame to have the nonfree cell modem software in the PinePhone running when I don't need to.
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I always have a secret microjet. Those are necessities for ruing stupid slow people or something others.
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Sure. I like the compact models especially.
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I always have a secret microphone. Those are necessities for ruing stupid officers or something others.
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OS X (macOS) is POSIX compatible, so it's better than iOS and Android.
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> 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.
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Obviously not. Keep in mind that Android is a malicious, hostile operating system. Don't be fooled by "open source" or "Linux (kernel) based".
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> 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
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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 Description: OpenPGP digital signature
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Yeah what sold me on the convergence was the 3GB of RAM and 32GB storage. Both should help with the choppines hopefully.
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Isn't Android POSIX compliant?
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>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 have vague (for lack of a better word) hit boxes and there is a noticeable touchscreen lag or is it more the app takes forever to load? Optimized apps will come later I know this... Honestly if you bought the Braveheart, and are buying yet the Convergence edition too that kinda says what I need to know. Thanks!
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Whether postmarketOS uses glibc of musl is less important. What is important is that postmarketOS is POSIX compliant.
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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 distros as well as let you know how the PostMarket version is. As all of the fistros I have tried Ubuntu Touch is the most polished so far but KDE Neon and Manjaro Arm have the most potential if you want a more pwoer user friendly distro.
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> 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.
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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 architecture. By mistakenly calling the operating system "Linux" (sic), people confuse Android-based with GNU-based operating systems. When you have your smart phone running GNU/Linux, you can have root privilege and truly own your smart phone. Attach an OTG hub and every peripheral you need, you can even run gcc and build you own application on the phone.
