Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one

@zudn @josias@theres.life @rose_myrtle (I just want more votes in this poll)

I imagine that could be some crash recovery feature...

Day 4 of #manjaroarm #plasmamobile on the #pinephone
It's really cool that I can compile full apps directly on this device.
I'm gonna move my sim card back because I need stability, and the constant crashing doesn't give that; I missed my first phone call.
If the tethering worked, I might have kept my sim in there a while longer, because of Google Voice WiFi calling on android device.

Checking `last` indicates it's been crashing about every hour.

What I don't get is why it shuts itself off at 70-80% battery, but seems to stay on fine if I leave it plugged in. 😡 It must be a #plasmamobile software thing. Maybe I'll try #sxmo next.

Day 3 using #plasmamobile on the #pinephone
Installed geary mail (geary-mobile 1:3.36.0.5966 on manjaro).
While libhandy things look friendly, kirigami apps are more pleasant to use b/c reachability, gestures instead of clicks. Convergence is a great idea to re-use existing code, but intentional design is better.
Phone still shuts itself off randomly, sometimes flashlight flickers on when manually starting (restarting?). The negativity is amplified by the system taking like a minute to boot.

Along with the wallpaper reverting, the home screen app layout also frequently resets. (Do any of the developers actually use this system as a daily driver?).

@linmob as a dvorak keyboard user, I've never liked the hjkl navigation provided by vim (it's like it was designed exclusively for qwerty users). I guess the @plasmamobile developers also use vim instead of nano/emacs, because the escape key works on their keyboard, and not ctrl.

@linmob https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/quickmail

I think this is it, but no readme or build instructions (getting ECM warning, despite having extra-cmake-modules)... and no license. So I guess that's something to wait and see? Or is the @plasmamobile team pretty big on Free Software?

Day 2 using #plasmamobile on the #pinephone
Most used text 'editor' is `cat - > filename.txt`, followed by the text, then 'cancel current command' from the ⋮ menu. Should I learn a GUI text editor, or learn ed?
Changed my wallpaper (but it keeps switching back). Couldn't figure how to change lockscreen bg.
Wi-Fi hotspot setting doesn't work: can't connect to its network (with dhcp or defined ip)
Why does this phone always turn itself on and off? I see nothing in battery settings.

@linmob thanks for pointing me to that! I'll have to follow them. I'm discovering more and more that plasma is trying to produce a specific designed experience (like ubuntu touch tried), so me trying to make my existing workflows/processes work inside it is not really what it was designed for.

@linmob Nice, I'll try that (I'm already a fan of vdirsyncer, just it's hard to configure, especially without a text editor... I guess I could learn to use Nota, the GUI text editor it ships with)

@lucifargundam I haven't done anything to set it up for MMS. The plasma settings pages for modem and sim card don't seem to have anything in them.

Day 1.5 of using #plasmamobile on #pinephone
The default ringtone for my alarm was nothing :/
Set up aerc to read emails in the terminal... difficult. Oughtn't there be a default installed email client on a smartphone?
Sms messages are dethreaded in #spacebar due to missing country code in contacts.
Unreceived MMS with no notification or indication.
Haven't figured out how to get nextcloud caldav into #Calindori
Installed #lagrange from discover. It's unusable b/c keyboard doesn't pop up.

Day 1 of using #plasmamobile on the #pinephone:
Can send/receive sms and phone calls!
Wow, that keyboard is so broken. Haven't yet figured out how to fix Ctrl so I can press Ctrl+S in nano.
That's gonna make development very difficult. (May just use termux ssh from android device) Do I need to install a different virtual keyboard?

I've been cross-posting almost-daily #devotional content to https://zachdecook.com/devo/ and gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/devo/

The gemini site looks better. (Content is mostly subset of gemtext/markdown). How should I share with friends? Convince ppl to get a gemini client? My gemini client?

@akkartik Solarized color scheme is a subset of the xterm 256 color pallette. I'm a big solarized dark fan (except maybe the green)

@oppen I like the idea... mostly because existing gemini clients don't keep track of scroll position in their bookmarks. Funny to see this pop up before any submissions to booksin.space.

Also, does "gpubVersion: 1.0.0" open the door too much to future extensibility? (Maybe inline notes using .patch files?)

@devinprater@dragonscave.space like "program X doesn't work well with orca"?

Haven't used thunderbird in a while... have kind of given up hope for it.

@devinprater@dragonscave.space
Make a list of issues somewhere that you think are important (and may be getting overlooked by developers). I'd be happy to take a peek at some of them, and see if I might fix any of them.