Shatur

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An app that notifies about people birthdays

The only app I miss from Android is BirthDayDroid. This app takes birthdays information from contacts and send notifications about them. Also provides convenient interface too look at the upcoming birthdays. GNU/Linux phones also have contacts and also support birthday fields. But is there a similar app to notify about...

Shatur,

NextCloud and CalDav is for synchronization, but I use only a single phone, so my contacts are up to date. But what calendar app would you recommend. I currently using Calindori, but it does not support importing events from phonebook as far as I know.

Shatur,

If you are still interesting in Linux phone, consider looking at PinePhone Pro. I would recommend it only for experience users and the phone experience is far from Android, but software is catching up. Check @linuxphones

P.S. writing this comment from PPP :)

Shatur,

Sorry, forgot that I need to use exclamation mark: !linuxphones

Shatur,

If you mean GNU/Linux - no. But you can buy a phone that supports Lineage OS. It’s Android distribution, so you will have everything you used to have on your phone and the OS will be fully FOSS. Or even maybe you current phone is already supported. Check their website.

Shatur,

When I bought a PC I just dd-ed the Arch from my notebook. Works just fine.

Shatur,

Looks interesting. I tried only Box64/86. Wondering how this will compare.

Shatur,

So If you need to work overtime, now you also need to pay 99$ if you want to sleep a few hours before the next day?

Shatur,

I mentioned valid concern. Overtime is bad, but in reality it happens. And it looks like workers will have to pay rent if they stay and want to sleep a few hours in bed.

Shatur, (edited )

See @linuxphones. I have PP and PPP. I run ArchLinux. PP is slow, but the battery lasts a bit better then PPP. PPP is more powerful, but CPU is too hungry and the phone heats a lot. If you need long battery life or you type a lot, then buy with the Pine keyboard. It’s chunky and have some quality issues, but I would say it worth it. Software currently immature. I would recommend buying only if you are a very experienced user.

Shatur,

Always wondered how it works. Anyone know what is the difference between social democracy and classic capitalism aside good social programs and taxes?

Shatur,

But in both cases capitalists run the government. Why with social democracy they still have good social programs while in capitalism they tend to reduce them? I doubt that with social democracy they have more generous capitalist, it’s should be something else.

Shatur,

That’s how I understand it, but why rich people may want to pay huge taxes?

Usually they try to avoid them as much as possible. I mean if capitalists run the country they could reduce them.

Shatur,

End of the article mentions the following:

Android was not mentioned by either Arm or Collobora, so I’d assume Arm will still focus their resources and provide closed-source Mali GPU drivers for Android, while expanding their support for Panfrost on Linux.

Shatur,

Of course it’s good! Especially for GNU/Linux on mobile.

Shatur,

I don’t think so. They providing GNU/Linux phone and invest money into mobile development for Linux. I would not recommend buying their Librem (better buy PinePhone Pro instead if you want GNU/Linux), but they definitely not a scam company.

Shatur,

You could buy the Pine keyboard to extend the battery life.

Shatur, (edited )

Strongly disagree. All things you mentioned are software issues. And they providing a phone with a bad specs intentionally. Because no one will buy an expensive GNU/Linux phone. We simply do not have software. The idea is to provide relatively cheap hardware, so developers can start working on it. And another reason was to provide hardware that have some GNU/Linux support already to avoid asking community to start from scratch. Very few phones can run GNU/Linux because of lack of drivers.

And yes, the keyboard is bad hardware-wise, I not satisfied with it either. But Pine did a lot for GNU/Linux on phones. Enthusiasts started writing software seriously only after PinePhone appearance.

Shatur, (edited )

Sure, there are drawbacks, but I think it worth it. It not only fixes the battery life, but also provides hardware typing which is important because we don’t have swipe-typing.

I wish they made a slider keyboard…

Shatur,

Wow, that’s sad to hear. You should have started with this :)

Shatur,

and I think the high price of it

I wouldn’t call PPP expensive. It’s a just more powerful version of PP for those developers (yes, for developers, it’s written in bold on their website) who want a more powerful unit. Yes, you can buy a more powerful phone for this price, but it’s not because Pine64 greed. They simply doesn’t have as big production capacity as other rich companies. The more phones you produce, the cheaper price for unit, this is how it works.

low built quality

PP(P) have okay build quality. I have complains only about keyboard.

subsequent low number of developers trying to improve the software side

It’s a community project, Pine does not develop the software at all. They only providing hardware and relies on community to build software for it. It’s kinda unique business model, but it’s the only way to make GNU/Linux phones popular. They are not Google, they can’t invest billions of dollars to develop the software. Thanks to Pine64, developers (including me) can port and write their software for Linux on phones. I have both phones and I see how much the situation has improved. We are still far from Android, but it makes me happy to see progress in this direction.

Shatur, (edited )

I am well aware, but the PPP included some expensive “premium” features like licensed gorrilla glas and so on, which do nothing for the developer experience

It’s great when developers daily drive what they write since it’s a community project and there is no quality control. I personally was happy when PPP was announced and bought it because I couldn’t daily drive PP, the hardware is too outdated for me. I honestly would prefer even RK3566, its more powerful and less hungry. But users can still can buy PP.

Compared to the original PinePhone the developer uptake of the PPP has been really slow

PP is around since 2020. And it was in a similar state. Also initial GNU/Linux support were different. Especially camera.

And I also made a mistake in my first comment. I wanted to write that all issues are software issues. I’m so sorry.

Shatur,

All things you mentioned are hardware issues

Oh, I’m so sorry, I wanted to write “software”. Edited. For example, charging when the phone is dead will be fixed soon with proper bootloader, megi already submitted patches to u-boot. It will also reduce power consumption in suspend.

Shatur,

Owner of PinePhone(Pro), calls and alarm from sleep works.

Shatur,

Not anymore, I have both and call and alarms from sleep works :)

Shatur,

I use ArchLinux with Plasma Mobile. Battery life is bad, but I bought the Pine keyboard which makes the battery life normal.

Shatur,

PP about two years, PPP about six months. Yes, there is a small crack with the keyboard case with PPP.

Shatur,

Megi publishes a new release of the PinePhone keyboard firmware, drastically improving power use and thus battery

This firmware is broken, do not update. See xff.cz/…/pinephone-keyboard-1.3.tar.gz-broken.txt

And thanks for the linmob.net.

Shatur,

It’s the code of the original game. If you build it, you will get the same version as the original. It also maybe work a bit faster due to modern compiler optimizations.

But leaked source code could potential lead to a maintained fork that improves the original game like github.com/OpenXRay

Shatur,

I use PinePhone Pro with Plasma Mobile on ArchLinux from Danct. I use Waydroid for to run banking apps that runs only on Android.

Shatur,

Does countries of Nordic model count? I heard good things about them.

Shatur,

Thank you, this does makes sense!

You previously mentioned China. And China do have big companies like NetEase. Are such companies under a mix of public and cooperative ownershiprs? How it differs from IKEA? Not arguing, just trying to understand.

Shatur,

I’m learning the material and I have a few questions.

You say that in China the capitalists do not run the government. But how do you know that they do not have their own business or are not affiliated with the capitalists? For example, in my country there is a law that does not allow deputies and the president to have their own business. But it does not work, these people simply register the business for other persons and, in fact, continue to own the business.

How China got out of poverty is amazing. But I also heard that the workers were very heavily exploited. This is one of the reasons why the US moved production there. And even now, workers in China are paid little despite the fact that the country is rich. How can this happen in a socialist country that should protect the interests of the workers?

As for the Nordic model, you said that it is not exactly socialism: it is capitalism, but with tough rules for business and good social programs. So they more centric then leftists really. And I don’t argue with that. But I don’t understand why if the capitalists run the country, they simply won’t loosen laws to make business easier and reduce social programs? How has this system not collapsed yet?

Sorry if some of the questions seem stupid, I’m just trying to how this all works.

Shatur,

Interesting, thank you! I’m a little jealous of our Asian brothers. I wish we could have a similar country, but with more western culture.

Shatur,

GNU/Linux on Phones are far from Android, but we slowly getting there. So if you want a better experience, just buy a phone that can run a community Android distribution like LineageOS.

But if you are an advanced user and really want to use GNU/Linux on your phone, then I would recommend buying a PinePhone Pro + Pine keyboard (there is a bundle on their website). The keyboard is needed because it extends the battery life (without it the battery life is horrible) and compensates good swipe touch keyboard typing (we currently don’t have a touch keyboard with swipe feature). I daily drive this phone on ArchLinux with Plasma Mobile and I satisfied with the result.

Shatur,

I also daily drive PPP. But I use the Pine keyboard to extend the battery life.

Shatur,

I running GNU/Linux on my Phone natively. And I use Waydroid layer to run Android apps. So I kinda doing the opposite 😄

Shatur,

The battery life is awful. But I bought the official clamshell keyboard for it that replaces the back cover and expands the battery capacity. With this accessory the battery life is good.

Shatur,

It’s Backbone One controller. Works out of the box (including pass-through charging and USB audio), but some applications don’t detect buttons correctly, so I remapped them using xboxdrv.

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