Say What? A Pinephone as a Project Computer? Preppers, Ham Radio, Makers, Tinkerers, Programmers! - Rob Braxman Tech
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Date: 2022-03-20
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I am most definitely not a geek, the last phone I had worthy of the smartphone title was a HTC Shift X9500, which wasn't even a phone straight out of the box, but I stood on the shoulders of geniuses at XDA developers and implementing their hacks left me with a very capable device (and a requirement for shirts with spacious breast pockets, the only downside was it was very much a Microsoft beast.
I have a Huawei P9 at the moment, which I use for everything from DLNA streaming, word processing, financial, Video editing, CAD editing. x86 emulation, call recording, FTP/SSH and butting heads with Google every step of the way.
I ordered my Braveheart edition before Christmas, like I said I'm no geek, if Synaptic Package Manager gets ported over for Wayland, or if all I need will work on Xorg, I'll be taking the point and click route.
I'm curious about the pogo pins on the back, I read somewhere that in theory hundreds of components can be added through I2C, although for various reasons the number in practice might be much lower. I'll probably 3D print myself a brick of a case and add quite a bit more to it. Pine64 mention wireless charging and IR blasters, I've never used an SBC before (bought a Pi for Octoprint and bolted it to my printer, still not finished building the printer yet. I wonder what the limitations are, a micro USB port (sometimes USB C cables are nowhere near? A 4K camera and daughter board? A second MicroSD card slot? What about a co processor? Or a bigger battery, second data radio for when my mobile network goes down, WiFi range extender? I'll be watching what others add with interest.
Hopefully the postman will have a nice surprise for me in a few weeks time.
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I am most definitely not a geek, the last phone I had worthy of the smartphone title was a HTC Shift X9500, which wasn't even a phone straight out of the box, but I stood on the shoulders of geniuses at XDA developers and implementing their hacks left me with a very capable device (and a requirement for shirts with spacious breast pockets, the only downside was it was very much a Microsoft beast.
I have a Huawei P9 at the moment, which I use for everything from DLNA streaming, word processing, financial, Video editing, CAD editing. x86 emulation, call recording, FTP/SSH and butting heads with Google every step of the way.
I ordered my Braveheart edition before Christmas, like I said I'm no geek, if Synaptic Package Manager gets ported over for Wayland, or if all I need will work on Xorg, I'll be taking the point and click route.
I'm curious about the pogo pins on the back, I read somewhere that in theory hundreds of components can be added through I2C, although for various reasons the number in practice might be much lower. I'll probably 3D print myself a brick of a case and add quite a bit more to it. Pine64 mention wireless charging and IR blasters, I've never used an SBC before (bought a Pi for Octoprint and bolted it to my printer, still not finished building the printer yet. I wonder what the limitations are, a micro USB port (sometimes USB C cables are nowhere near? A 4K camera and daughter board? A second MicroSD card slot? What about a co processor? Or a bigger battery, second data radio for when my mobile network goes down, WiFi range extender? I'll be watching what others add with interest.
Hopefully the postman will have a nice surprise for me in a few weeks time.
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Mr.
I am not a phone centric person, but I do love my iPhone; only thing I don't like is that I can't use most of my programs from Linux. Sure, I can mimic the ones I want to, but a Linux Phone would be perfect.
I could imagine programming intuitive touch commands to switch between workspaces, etc.
For me, my main needs with a computer are writing--that's really it. I do most of my writing in Vim, using LaTeX and Fountain (a markup for screenplays) Sure, there are iOS apps in my case and I am sure there are android apps maybe, for my Kindle, but I like Vim, and I would prefer to be using Pure Linux anyway.
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I am not a phone centric person, but I do love my iPhone; only thing I don't like is that I can't use most of my programs from Linux. Sure, I can mimic the ones I want to, but a Linux Phone would be perfect.
I could imagine programming intuitive touch commands to switch between workspaces, etc.
For me, my main needs with a computer are writing--that's really it. I do most of my writing in Vim, using LaTeX and Fountain (a markup for screenplays) Sure, there are iOS apps in my case and I am sure there are android apps maybe, for my Kindle, but I like Vim, and I would prefer to be using Pure Linux anyway.
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Lukasz
Great video Rob. You're correct, we already have devs from non-phone oriented projects contacting us. A full Linux desktop using the keyboard we're planning is an obvious application, but there are some fun projects - e. g. retrogaming distributions and IoT - that we see as viable on the PinePhone too. Obviously you'll be able to boot these secondary OSs from a SD card and maintain actual 'phone' functionality on whatever mobile OS running from eMMC. So yes, you're absolutely correct, there is no reason not to have fun with the PinePhone and try out crazy stuff: )
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Great video Rob. You're correct, we already have devs from non-phone oriented projects contacting us. A full Linux desktop using the keyboard we're planning is an obvious application, but there are some fun projects - e. g. retrogaming distributions and IoT - that we see as viable on the PinePhone too. Obviously you'll be able to boot these secondary OSs from a SD card and maintain actual 'phone' functionality on whatever mobile OS running from eMMC. So yes, you're absolutely correct, there is no reason not to have fun with the PinePhone and try out crazy stuff: )
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Jessie
my Iphone 4 is acting up. I think the cold almost killed it.
I really want it to hold out till I can get a proper phone.
Pinephone is exciting. I really want to get my desktop OS working on a phone. I really like how low memory usage is and how easy it is to manage it for a newer linux user. Too bad I couldn't help get it running at all.
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my Iphone 4 is acting up. I think the cold almost killed it.
I really want it to hold out till I can get a proper phone.
Pinephone is exciting. I really want to get my desktop OS working on a phone. I really like how low memory usage is and how easy it is to manage it for a newer linux user. Too bad I couldn't help get it running at all.
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Anthony
I-m so excited, I can-t contain myself! As a Linux user - a little bit of a geek (Whonix, Tails etc) - and really into internet privacy, just can-t wait to get it working and play with it. Looking forward to all the fun we-re going to have together as Rob-s community!
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I-m so excited, I can-t contain myself! As a Linux user - a little bit of a geek (Whonix, Tails etc) - and really into internet privacy, just can-t wait to get it working and play with it. Looking forward to all the fun we-re going to have together as Rob-s community!
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TheLotw
I bought one and then found out not shipping till mid January for a little disappointed. I run Arch linux as my daily os and am testing Solus Linux again. Want to try this. Also if you can get the software to run can be a complete controller for a 3d printer
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I bought one and then found out not shipping till mid January for a little disappointed. I run Arch linux as my daily os and am testing Solus Linux again. Want to try this. Also if you can get the software to run can be a complete controller for a 3d printer
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Jorge
Withbthat device you could mount it in a moveable stand and automatically fire a laser to google'$ statellites. Use accelerometer to follow nosy sats and ruin their images. You shoot me with your beams, i shoot you with mine.
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Withbthat device you could mount it in a moveable stand and automatically fire a laser to google'$ statellites. Use accelerometer to follow nosy sats and ruin their images. You shoot me with your beams, i shoot you with mine.
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majun26
Wow once I get one of these android is dead to me, it should have let me have root access while it still had a chance, now its definitely just a matter of time before I never ever evar use android again
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Wow once I get one of these android is dead to me, it should have let me have root access while it still had a chance, now its definitely just a matter of time before I never ever evar use android again
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Mattxiety
Not ALL of your viewers are computer geeks, because all -I- got out of this is that the Pinephone is gonna be cool. didn't understand a single word of the technical stuff lol.
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Not ALL of your viewers are computer geeks, because all -I- got out of this is that the Pinephone is gonna be cool. didn't understand a single word of the technical stuff lol.
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Terminus--T
Ubuntu touch on Nexus 5 is pretty good. Browser streams youtube good, music app is awesome, calls, texts. Gameboy emulator is nice.
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Ubuntu touch on Nexus 5 is pretty good. Browser streams youtube good, music app is awesome, calls, texts. Gameboy emulator is nice.
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