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The pine64 products all look quite nice. I was thinking of getting one of those phones (Linux based) next time mine dies. I can confirm the pinecil is the best soldering iron I’ve used and it’s only $26. The laptop they sell also has decent stats

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The phone is still not very usable. It’s possible to use it as a daily driver but only if you have a high pain tolerance.

sigh I miss my N900.

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Did you own one? I’ve yet to meet someone that has so any other insight would be appreciated.

High pain tolerance like using Linux as a daily back in ‘06?

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Yeah, I have one. It’s slow and unstable, no good browser, no good Signal client and an almost unusable camera and GPS.

All these things kind of sorta work. But not in any satisfying capacity.

It’s especially baffling to me that it seems to be impossible to make a modern smartphone with even a small fraction of the power of a PC. It must be hardware or driver issue because devices like the Steam Deck or Raspberry Pi show that the software is perfectly capable of delivering a good experience. And Android phones show that Linux on a smartphone works in principle. There just seems to be a gap between them and mainline Linux. Probably Google bribing chip manufacturers to keep competition down. Can’t think of much else.

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I was looking into linux phones myself but I always hear others say how the ones on the market aren’t developed enough and have lots of bugs :(

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The app compatibility is what I’d be most worried about. Not enough people want to buy them since there are bugs. But there aren’t enough people buying to justify devs fixings these bugs. It needs some momentum, it seems

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