same

very cool. would love eventually getting it on a phone that supports video out. none of those are available to me for cheap right now and/or don’t got support.

TIL neocities is a thing

“hiding” implies something sinister - I ain’t got nothing to share. when you don’t know the quality and quantity of my morning stool, that ain’t something hidden from you, that’s something that ain’t shared with you.

it’s a false dichotomy, strawman fallacy, red herring, etc. all rolled into one, designed to keep you on your heels, defending yourself against baseless accusations.

I’m telling you how things are, you’re listing things you wished to be true. and that list will get accomplished by deus-ex-machinas, what’s the big deal… install it on a loose device you got and try using it for a day or two.

you don’t see what the big deal is? you’re in a UX that was tweaked and polished for decades, and you do it almost subconsciously, whilst walking, dodging pedestrians, doing other shit, etc. this thing is in its infancy and pretty far from usable by even tech people for everyday shit, let alone normies.

the apps aren’t handling the vertical UI gracefully or at all. like, plasma’s settings UI doesn’t collapse the categories so you can’t interact with it. Gnome’s toggle switches dropdowns only recently started reacting to touch. OSKs are now at least somewhat usable but still nothing compared to android keyboards. none of the navigation gestures you got muscle memory for work here. that’s just the system’s UI, before you even attempt to run apps that don’t know that 300% zoomed-in, vertical UI is a thing.

the stuff you mention are so far off on the things-to-fix list, might as well not be on it.

this is a glorious platform and I love using it; but people expecting this to be a replacement for android is bordering on delusion, no such thing exists nor is it really in the works.

really glad to see someone finally making a distinction between pixels and the rest, had about enough with the graphene/pixel pushers. also didn’t know eOS (not typing up them slashes) has a web installer, albeit only for a handful of models; hopefully that will expand. eOS to lineageOS would be like ubuntu to debian, making the thing more useable for a newb and every stride in this direction helps.

I alternate between mobian and postmarketOS every coupla months, to be up to date on the state of it. I have a fast device, lotsa RAM, lotsa fast storage, switch regularly between various UIs (phosh, plasma mobile, etc)

“up to speed” is such a huge, immense, and moving target that I can’t fathom the funds and dev efforts needed to get there. e.g. the plasma team has their hands full with bringing desktop plasma up to speed - 6.6 was a gargantuan effort; when you throw the mobile UI in the mix, it makes the goal exponentially farther away.

when you consider that Linux-on-Phones (just had a mental flash of Russ Hanneman saying “Radio-on-Internet”) isn’t one thing, there’s a bunch of dev efforts, some on bare-metal, some halium based and the various UIs (gnome, phosh, plasma mobile, sxmo, etc) that all pull in different directions, solving the same thing independently, wasting time and dev efforts.

so this thing becoming an alternative to an OS that was worked on for close to two decades by the richest people on the planet - that simply isn’t on the horizon, becoming an android alternative is pretty far, far away.

now, if you think of this as your linux laptop with a touch interface in your pocket, you’re closer to what this thing is and can do.

mediateks don’t get lineageos, there’s like two models (out of 500+) that are supported

mediatek, no lineageOS, bye

I wanted to do the same for a dedicated jellyfin player box; a defunct laptop or mini PC that boots straight into the jellyfin-media-player (jellyfin desktop nowadays) in TV mode and was looking for just the bare minimum of packages to achieve this. gave up, curious how others solved it.

I am the first to pile on shit on people who are like buy new stuff, but in this instance, yeah, get a $20 laptop with a busted screen or sumsuch, install debian, and use it normally (docker compose).

you need the least amount of movable parts in this setup and yours is just too off kilter for a server.

first thing I do is turn off all update notifications, can’t stand shit beeping at me. then, systemd timer that autoupdates all flatpaks daily; happens quietly in the background, no popups, no nothings.

system gets updated like once a month (and restarted). reason: hate reboots, leave my system in the evening, wake it in the morning with all my shit how I left it.

you are still buying stuff you dont need to and they are not cheap by any metric. $200 for a phone with a degraded battery that was rubbed all over, spat on, taken to the shitter, and dogknowswhatelse is not cheap, by any metric.

a year ago, $50 could get me a Poco F1 or Oneplus 6/6T, SDM 845 with 8 GB RAM. full lineageOS and postmarketOS support. nowadays, same money can get me something like a Poco X3 Pro, SDM860 with 8 GB and 256 GB storage. insanely powerful platforms, that’s what I’d buy if I had to. but I don’t gotta, the latest lineageOS runs on my shit.

first of all, posting this here is kinda pointless, ain’t a soul here that doesn’t know about this thing. second, no ill feelings about madame V., the world is better with her work in it, but this ain’t the audience for it as her work is kinda superficial and, again, directed at a different audience.

third and final, fuck grapheneos. fuck the pixel. and fuck google. and fuck the premise that the only way you can escape their clutches is buying new shit.

if you think this thing is a good idea, that’d be as if linux can run only on a couple of the most recent thinkpads and nothing else. would you still be into it? I know I wouldn’t be.

gOS is the easiest to get onto hardware and that’s why this thing dominates the youtube slop sphere. you try to make flashing lineageOS into a coherent video, you’d lose all of your audience, presto.

for the 99,9% of us that ain’t a buncha jason bournes on the run from 5eyes and friends, lineageOS is plenty fine and secure as is.

brah, phones haven’t changed significantly in the past decade. competent devices should (and do) cost like $100. chinese phones cost that much, made at the same place where these things are made. that’s enough for all the parts and a healthy profit and that thing can run the same software as the $500 one or the $1000 one.

those things nowadays ain’t nice-to-have, they’re must-have and poor people shouldn’t be excluded from safely participating in the global communication sphere. gos could at any time ship gos-lite that isn’t based on a hardware-backed TPM that’s exclusive to pixels and I’d shut the fuck up. that thing would cover the 99% of us that ain’t a buncha jason bournes with nation-states after us.

are you being a good little consumer and I’ve somehow disrupted your bliss, you poor thing? sooo sorry, go vote with your wallet you ignorant, useless troll

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dog fuckin damn… show me the incentive, I’ll show you the outcome

fuck google. fuck the pixel. and fuck grapheneos.

imposing an artificial entry barrier of hundreds of dollars/euros for not getting assraped on the reg gets a well deserved fuck you and die. the vast percentage of gos functionality can be had with lineageOS and a few tweaks, for a tenth of the price.

$500 for a phone is not fucking “reasonable”! shit’s supposed to get better and cheaper at the same time. but if your easily breakable slab of glass costed $99, that’s not hella much profit for their gaping assholes.

and miss me with the “refurbished” (isn’t) - $200 for a used phone that was spat on and rubbed and used in the shitter and now has a bad battery is not reasonable.

my sincerest apologies to the huge population beset by nation-state actors, who got no alternative to locked bootloaders and are exposed to evil-maid scenarios. the rest of us can get two $50 used phones, run lineageos on one (while that’s still a thing), postmarketOS on the other, and accelerate the latter’s progress by shipping like a quarter of the remaining balance to its developers.

not dealt with such a thing, but a decomissioned phone or laptop is the most obvious solution. they come with batteries, have seamless transition between power and battery, and you’re reusing shit nobody wants no more.

laptops you can get cheap when they have like busted screens and any reasonably modern (like decade old) can operate in sub-5W territory; coupled with a good battery, that should provide you with tens of hours of battery powered use, and you can expand that, with powerbanks and such.

alternatively, a cheap phone that can run postmarketOS or mobian. even lower consumption and more options to extend power availability.

inputremapper handles this. in its UI you assign the remote’s keys to keyboard keys or mouse up/down events. it’s kinda clunky, but you’ll figure it out after a coupla tries.