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!
Last handful of
@ubports CE #PinePhone are now available. Once they're sold we will donate the remaining money to the UBports Foundation and close the UBCE campaign.
Buy now and have it shipped soon. NB. DHL shipments only.
LINK: https://store.pine64.org/product/pinephone-community-edition-ubports-limited-edition-linux-smartphone/
Did you know you can get all of the properties and quantity take-off data of an element with ONE line of code for #IFC? It's as simple as:
ifcopenshell.util.element.get_psets(element)
Join the #OSArch community today: https://community.osarch.org/
A quick video demo of the #pinephone with an external monitor and keyboard/mouse
We know many of you are waiting for #PinePhone @ubports CE - it will be shipping very soon. Meanwhile, here are pictures taken the day production wrapped up. We're not going to spoil the phenomenal box design for this CE (by @cibersheep on Twitter) however, pictures don't do it justice.
Want to learn how to expel Google from your life? Check out the Reddit community!
https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/
Did you know? The #BlenderBIM Add-on can now be used to export IFC data in IFCJSON format - perhaps the only BIM program which can do so.
It only took 100 lines of Python code. Join the #OSArch community and don't let proprietary software hold you back!
Friendly reminder: "X as a service" is just a misleading corporate euphemism for "pay forever for not owning it".
"Software as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning the software".
"Games as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning games".
"Infrastructure as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning the hardware".
And so on.
There is no "cloud", it's just other people's computers
Internet messaging is so broken that FB alone owns 3 incompatible apps. Google has *6*, not counting the ones they canceled: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/google-unifies-messenger-teams-plans-more-coherent-vision/
It doesn't have to be this way. Messaging isn't complicated. We solved this more than a decade ago. You have five incompatible messaging apps on your phone because greed drives companies to ignore compatibility and optimize for vendor lock-in. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lessons-vendor-lock-messaging
"Libhandy was the start, but both Tobias and Purism and the GNOME development team have plans to go a step further to transform the interface of the desktop environment into the future." - https://www.explica.co/this-is-mobile-shell-the-new-experimental-gnome-interface-that-seeks-convergence-with-the-mobile-platform/
PSA: please stay clear of r/pinephone. The subreddit is ran in bad faith and for nefarious reasons. Full statement in the provided link: https://reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/fxcipk/psa_refrain_from_using_rpinephone/
Should you use #Zoom for confidential conversations?
Let's have a quick look at security...
💣 https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-bug-webcam-hackers/
💣 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account
💣 https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/
💣 https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/zoombombing/
💣 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/technology/new-york-attorney-general-zoom-privacy.html
💥
Let's call that a 'no'.
"Google Says It Doesn’t 'Sell' Your Data. Here’s How the Company Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits It."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-data-heres-how-company-shares-monetizes-and
Built moonlight for postmarketos, which mean I can run doom on the #pinephone streamed from my PC.
#postmarketOS now boots on Xiaomi Redmi Note 7! #Linux
@PINE64 #Pinetime now supports BLE notifications!
Release 0.4.0 brings BLE notifications, nice icons, brightness and sysinfo apps and bugfixes!
Here is the changelog : https://github.com/JF002/Pinetime/releases/tag/0.4.0
Any contribution to improve the UI is more than welcome. Next step : OTA!