m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@q66 @mia
Also it's LTE-only. Not that I need that 5G thing, there are still 2G networks around here, but in regard of being futureproof, still something to consider.
Does Sailfish support it on any hardware at all? 🤔

@gemlog
Ha-ha-ha, that's real smart! I wish I could go that route, but in the land of the non-free, Wi-Fi has to be logged and linked to your real identity, otherwise they might crack down on you and you'd be fined, so most people have their networks closed and even though it's capital city, you can barely find open networks 😫

@gemlog
That battery life is too tasty to reject, so I'm letting this phone be. But I'm getting Pinephone proper next.
Maybe something even nicer than current PinePhone Pro will come up by then.
And I'm definitely aiming for my perfect phone this time — with PostmarketOS and SWMO/SXMO. I'm not against tinkering with my phone so I'm going to polish it to perfection, it's just that with Android it felt pointless — I just fundamentally hate this OS 😂

@gemlog
Mine can only run Droidian — it's basically Mobian running on top of HALium compatibility layer, the thing that makes it possible to use it on phones that originally came with Android.
It works relatively well — most of the hardware is supported, but it's not enough to justify having only a day of battery life, compared to five (!) days that you can get out of my phone easily with medium usage on Android-based ArrowOS.

@gemlog
Proud to report that now it works even on my end 😁

Debian Seeing Work To Support systemd-boot: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Expert-systemd-boot
"Debian developer Luca Boccassi has begun working on systemd-boot support for using it as an alternative to the GRUB bootloader."
"alternative" 😏

Not that I use Debian, so I mostly don't care. Still funny.

@neural_meduza
Ну применительно к жизни в России — это чаще всего правда. При чём, касается не только женщин 🤪

@eric @newt
I expected something like that, but I had no idea it makes you harder to hit — I've always thought it's just to piss people off 😆

@eric
As you can see, we're just joking this time! Besides, this instance has 500 character limit, which makes discussing such important topics as Firewire and DMA not quite comfortable 😏
Speaking of FPS — that dedicated ioquake3 server of mine. It's still running 😉
@newt

@amerika
Later, when I was living in the country near the forest during the COVID thing, their music started growing on me immensely.
Today I regret not buying it very much — and I didn't even have to do a thing, he didn't know what to expect so when he brought the CD player, he took a few records with him to test it and I could just "You know, I'll take those too", but alas 😢
@mischievoustomato @newt

@amerika
I don't enjoy metal as much these days, but when it's something bordering on prog or something slower like sludge, I still appreciate it.
When my NAD CD player broke down I got a used Rotel one from a guy who was also selling some of his CD collection, including nearly complete Neurosis discography, I only had A Sun that Never Sets by them at the time and didn't like it much — for some reason it seemed rather simplistic to me.
@mischievoustomato @newt

@amerika
Yesterday I was flabbergasted by the difference when I put a CD on after not listening to them for a few days: the stage feels wider and I can clearly hear different sounds in different stereo channels. But it probably had more to do with it being an early King Crimson record, not with audio source per se — but nothing wrong with that either, it was an HDCD remaster — I liked the format, too bad it died too fast 😩
@mischievoustomato @newt

@amerika
I've only had proper turntable for a pretty short period of time and I've given all the vinyl records I had to my friends so it's probably too late to start collecting them again.
I do love CDs though! But since shipping and handling started costing more than the CDs themselves (and now it became at all impossible), I stopped buying them.
@mischievoustomato @newt

@newt @mischievoustomato
That probably is true! I'm kinda happy that tinkering with this stuff makes me happy and brings me calm now — it wasn't always like that 😂

@newt
In this particular case avoiding pulse at least allowed me to get rid of separate pulseaudio process that had to be running all the time — less RAM on an already resource-constrained machine, and a couple percent less CPU usage as no unnecessary routing is done. It had its merits.
As I didn't have to spend a week on it, like I said — I just came up with an idea, while messing with alsa on another machine, and it worked, why the hell not?
@mischievoustomato

@newt
I'm not attempting to sell you ALSA and again, I don't think there is need for one-size-fits-all solutions. I just don't need anything pulseaudio/pipewire provides — no transmission over the network, no advanced routing, nothing of it. I just want my output as dumb as it can possibly get.
@mischievoustomato

@newt @mischievoustomato
Why is that? 🤔

@newt
Man, do you realize that I'm just teasing you? I don't want to have a serious discussion about it again. I think you got my point — that theoretically DMA might still be advantageous, and I got yours — in most real world usage scenarios it no longer matters. And I've never stated otherwise: use whatever you're comfortable with — always. My rotten museum-class hardware gets the shit done for me, does it so well that I don't see the point in getting anything new and shiny 🤷

@newt @mischievoustomato
As much as it is embarrassing to admit, but until recently it was even using PulseAudio to work around the bug that at certain sample formats and sampling rates its audio interface was producing silence. Luckily I've found a workaround that allows me using bare ALSA last week. Point is, I wasn't even so much worried about about Pulse in this case — I just came up with an idea of fix and it worked, other than that — let corner cases be corner cases.