A list of apps that I’ve found as nice alternatives:
Flare (Signal messenger)
Dissent (A very light discord app. It is very nice.)
Tuba (Mastodon)
Fluffychat (Matrix)
Freetube (Youtube. Still a bit quirky but it works well enough. The stupid phosh notch gets in the way.)
Lemonade (Currently testing this for Lemmy. It doesn’t work on Phosh + Wayland. For some reason I can’t click any community and I can’t login. I do like the app and hopefully it will improve over time since it has potential.)
Podcasts (GNOME podcast app. Works well enough. Just annoyingly overbloated.)
Syndic (RSS feed client. It is still in development and has some issues like unable to import opml, but it works well for what it is.)
GNOME Secrets (Stupid password manager. Had to export the bitwarden vault into json and import into keepassxc before transfering that vault to the pinephone. Would be nice if bitwarden dev team could come out with a proper working flatpak instead of this bollocks.)
Still testing apps and might update this list overtime.
A bit late again, but I’ve been busy and dealing with life… I finally got my PinePhone up and running, mostly. I’m quite proud. I ended up going with Arch + Phosh image and not disappointed. Found a bunch of apps that work well on it as well. I’m definitely happy for once since it is basically usable now as a regular smartphone and as a mobile device for uh more nerdy things.
I am also debating which smartphone to buy to have as a backup phone, and there are three I looked at. All three have official Lineage OS support and one has Calyx OS support. I might end up buying 2 out of the 3.
Also been brainstorming and experimenting with a few ideas in labs and on my devices. Have a lot written down as a rough draft of what I want, and just need to go through my list to figure out what to prioritize to code and test in labs first. I am glad I wasted way too long figuring out this stuff because things are starting to turn out a lot better quality. I also have a nice list of hardware I want to buy… looking forward to being able to explore RF more and play with a lot of interesting hardware toys.
I have a lot of plans right now and just taking everything a bit each day.
Defiently still have way too much doubt in myself and questioning if this is really my thing, but life is confusing and sometimes sucks.
Make it more usable without having to do too many mental backflips. I’m going to try to see if I could make a better DE with XFCE + Openbox + dmenu + the sxmo gesture daemon. Have a rough draft in my head.
I’m late, but been wrestling with the PinePhone. I’ve ultimately decided on Mobian with Phosh + TLP + UFW and probably other stuff. I have decided to take a bit of a short break from most of my projects, but will probably be back to them in a week or so. Just exhausted right now, but something’s are starting to look up for once.
Simple and very interesting. I wonder if something like the USB Killer could be integrated, which would essentially fry the electronics and can probably help with making recovering data a lot more difficult?
Most are not, and I have both friends and family from Russia. We will see more cyber crime from Russia as well because inflation is stupid high there right now and well… people don’t want to starve.
Brainstorming ways to deal with the overheating on PinePhone and have a few ideas to try. Been coding a lot in various different languages that are mostly newer to get a feel for them to see if they’re interesting enough. At some point, I want to try to get into developing some stuff with the Pogo pins on the PinePhone. Need to get to emulating firmware on QEMU to start playing with IoT and whatnot…