Some people on activitypub seemed a bit interested in mobile linux, so I decided to share a bit more of my experience on here. I will break it up into different posts covering different aspects.
I have been using a PinePhone 1.2b (3GB of RAM, 32GB eMMC storage) as my daily driver for roughly four years now. That may sound impressive, but I only really use a phone so people can reach me, for music on the go, and for a browser in a pinch. I'm not on my phone all that often.
PinePhone: https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/
Currently, I have Mobian (based on Debian) Trixie installed on the internal eMMC storage and a 512GB microSD card mounted at /home, both utilizing full-disk encryption, for plenty of storage for my use-case. I'm using the Phosh interface, since it is more stable in my experience than plasma mobile currently. I also mostly use GTK software since they tend to integrate better with Phosh. I do not have cellular service on it, I even have the entire cellular modem disabled via the hardware dipswitch on the back currently.
Mobian: https://mobian-project.org/
Phosh: https://phosh.mobi/
#mobian #debian #linux #mobilelinux #pinephone #linuxphone #phosh
I have been using a PinePhone 1.2b (3GB of RAM, 32GB eMMC storage) as my daily driver for roughly four years now. That may sound impressive, but I only really use a phone so people can reach me, for music on the go, and for a browser in a pinch. I'm not on my phone all that often.
PinePhone: https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/
Currently, I have Mobian (based on Debian) Trixie installed on the internal eMMC storage and a 512GB microSD card mounted at /home, both utilizing full-disk encryption, for plenty of storage for my use-case. I'm using the Phosh interface, since it is more stable in my experience than plasma mobile currently. I also mostly use GTK software since they tend to integrate better with Phosh. I do not have cellular service on it, I even have the entire cellular modem disabled via the hardware dipswitch on the back currently.
Mobian: https://mobian-project.org/
Phosh: https://phosh.mobi/
#mobian #debian #linux #mobilelinux #pinephone #linuxphone #phosh
@maskedwitch (i care loads about a headphone jack but im also pretencious enough to call nyself an audiophile)
@maskedwitch eh, now I wanna hear what it sounds like! (im actually not that particularly picky about my sound)
@maskedwitch hmmm, i havent had a bad music exoerience in a while actually, so dunno
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@maskedwitch /me waves the secret pinephone daily driver¹ salute :D
I'm using cellular service rather than wifi more than half of the time, and I feel that these days it's way more reliable than it used to be: lately the main reason why I didn't have data service has been because I had not paid for it (ehm... :D ), or disabled international roaming because I live close to a border and then traveled internationally (double ehm...)
to be fair, I never use it for phone calls, only data, so I don't know whether receiving calls is reliable
(and I suspend a lot, because battery and not wanting notifications anyway)
¹ for values of “daily” where I don't use a phone every day
@valhalla Trying a sleepwalk script (like the one I maintain https://codeberg.org/maskedwitch/sleepwalkneo for Mobian) might work for you. It suspends the phone but periodically wakes the phone to connect to the internet to allow apps to check for messages