someUnexpectedSparks @someunexpectedsparks@librem.one
I'll use this to toot a bit about linux phones, primarily the Librem5 from Purism. I hope to pass on some information that I'd be interested in if I was thinking about buying one.
I am not, in any way, affiliated with Purism beyond being a customer.
If you find any of this interesting or helpful, great. If not, well most of social media is moronic anyway, what did you expect? :)
Joined Aug 2020
Benchmark 3/3
Here are the charts.
Faster times are better. Multi-core gadgets do better with more threads.
Gadget observations…
- The early RaspberryPIs were sloooow. So was the PocketChip. I made a second chart without them to show the Librem5 details a bit better
- The #Librem5 #dogwood performs just a bit faster than a #RaspberryPI 3 in this situation
- The #GeminiPDA starts out a bit slower, but more cores matter
- Desktops are just plain fast
This is totally awesome. Or totally silly.
The #librem5 #dogwood has a working spreadsheet app. You don’t believe me?
It is “sc” the spreadsheet calculator for unix/linux. It is a fully working spreadsheet. Well, you may want to debate “fully”. Call it spreadsheet functionality without all the cruft/fluff and unneeded features. You #terminal folks say you like that, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc_(spreadsheet_calculator)
#sc
When the squeekboard modifier keys appeared a week or so ago, I really wondered if I had just missed them. So I started looking for info on updates.
The info about them in the phone isn’t great. I don’t see a way to look at past updates, so I waited for another to toot.
3 screens here
1. Update Announcement
2. Package list
3. Package details (empty wherever I’ve looked)
Off-phone, I found the squeekboard change mentioned in their repo. Which made me feel better.
#librem5 #dogwood
syncthing!
This makes me unreasonably happy
Installed from cli w/apt. Got 2 icons (start & web ui) in phosh, which I didn’t expect. It connected with my other machines in a few minutes. Files now syncing over both wi-fi & mobile. Smooth
This is real gnu/linux!
I’m building a home-grown, personal-cloud, screw-ball, palm-pilot replacement thing and I’d bet on syncthing as a core technology. Picture me as Hannibal Smith - I love it when a plan comes together.
A quick note on squeekboard, the librem5 on-screen keyboard
When I first started playing around with the phone, particularly in the terminal, there was no [Ctrl] key. WTF?
That's a problem. It actually put me off wanting to play with the phone. It felt like a Fisher-Price phone or something.
Then one day I see this...
Modifier keys. Arrow keys. They just appeared one day. Very cool!
Software updates ftw?
#librem5 #dogwood #squeekboard
Gave evince (gnome document viewer) a try (2/2)
I went landscape to get wider & bigger text, but the side panel wouldn’t go away- wasted space.
UI toggle wouldn’t work. Keyboard shortcut wouldn’t work.
2 screencaps, one should have the sidebar, one shouldn’t. Can you see a difference?
The toggle worked in portrait mode, and on a different laptop, so I’m pretty sure it should work here too.
To me this kind of nuisance stuff is expected given where linux phones stand today.
I'll use this to toot a bit about linux phones, primarily the Librem5 from Purism. I hope to pass on some information that I'd be interested in if I was thinking about buying one.
I am not, in any way, affiliated with Purism beyond being a customer.
If you find any of this interesting or helpful, great. If not, well most of social media is moronic anyway, what did you expect? :)
Joined Aug 2020
