james h jackson jr @jameshjacksonjr@librem.one

Out of pure curiosity a little website dedicated to mi new #pinephone

https://petrisch2.duckdns.org/apps/cms_pico/pico/pinephone/

It's that time of the month again -- the July 2020 Update Blog is live!

I have said we have too much news to list for several previous entries, but that's especially true today. This is the biggest update we've had yet.

Highlights:
- #PinePhone @postmarketOS Edition preorders live
- OG #Pinebook upgrade kit back on horizon
- #PineTime with @JF firmware upcoming
- Say hello to #Pinecil
- MUCH MORE

https://www.pine64.org/2020/07/15/july-updatepmos-ce-pre-orders-and-new-pinephone-version/

"... we have resumed exploring the creation of an external keyboard for the PinePhone. To be precise, we have approached a vendor and began exploring our options for a slide-out keyboard akin to those used on the Nokia N900."

https://www.pine64.org/2020/07/15/july-updatepmos-ce-pre-orders-and-new-pinephone-version/

#PinePhone #NokiaN900

Woohoo! Just ordered the #PinePhone #postmarketos with Convergence Package. So looking forward to having some fun with this 😜 📱 🎉 🚀

My #Pinephone order status

I ordered my #UBports Community Edition Pinephone at the end of May. Obviously with the raging global pandemic, I knew I'd have to be patient.

Early last week I got an email from PINE64 telling me they still couldn't ship to Canada through regular mail, and if I didn't upgrade to DHL shipping before Friday last week, they'd cancel my order. On the PINE64 forum some people were mad about it. But I understand they've been dealing with an impossible situation.

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#Jolla Opens New Forum for #SailfishOS Discussions

The until now used TJC website will be replaced with a new discussion forum. The new forum should provide a better platform for developer collaboration since TJC has not been the optimal forum for serving developers’ needs. The new website includes several sub-forums which allow discourses and deeper analysis for every type of discussions.

- Official Jolla Blog post: https://blog.jolla.com/new-forum-for-sailfish-os-discussion/

- Visit the new forum: https://forum.sailfishos.org/

RoboCop was released 33 years ago today!

Here's a story about state/private partnerships undermining our rights with mass surveillance. https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1284215554950168576?s=20 https://t.co/EoTLuOA46E

The City of Portland, OR is considering banning the use of facial recognition technologies. This coming Monday, Electronic Frontier Alliance member Portland TA3M will host a discussion which takes a closer look at the proposal. https://www.eff.org/event/portland-facial-recognition-ordinance-drafts

A new federal bill may be our best chance to ban government use of face recognition. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-to-ban-federal-use-of-face-recognition

Did you protest recently? Your face might be in a database https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/17/protest-black-lives-matter-database

Riot is now named Element. Feels a lot better and is faster. Well done!

https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/
#matrix

Thanks to the work of Samuel Holland, crust advanced power management is now capable of running the #PinePhone for 100hrs in idle without the modem (approximately 110mW). With modem on, we should get 40% battery run-time increase (to approx 24 hrs).
Coming to your distro of choice soon!

#100daysofcode Day 96: To try to get group texts working on my #pinephone, I build vgmms ( https://git.sr.ht/~anteater/vgmms ), but encountered an error when running it: https://todo.sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack-bugs/16

Speaking of #PinePhone, are there any projects out there with decent documentation that do make use of the pogo pins? My usual sources (hackaday, reddit) aren't turning up much, except for a breakout board a couple months back. The only thing I'm aware of is the official clamshell keyboard which maybe doesn't exist yet.

@techit @nikolal @marc0janssen If I had to buy a phone now, it would probably be a #Fairfone or #Pinephone. But the most ethical phone is the one you already have. It's better not to replace one needlessly. I don't need anything newer than my old Wiko.

Something to consider regarding #privacy ramifications of #Android on #Pinephone... yes, while even #AOSP likely includes privacy issues we'd all rather get away from, the other way of looking at this is to ask how many cheap, Android phones use only AOSP, are updated regularly and include hardware kill switches for the modem, webcam, mic, wifi etc?

Yes, it's way better to use a real #Linux OS for privacy, but this could actually be a good entry point for people who just wouldn't do that...