<html><head></head><body>Battery life on the pine64 is as bad as they said. Didn't make it a full work day on idle. Lot's of tuning opportunity 👍<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 17, 2020 6:15:54 PM EDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Does Wayland allow video capturing yet? Last time I checked, only<br>a few bad programs were supported.<br><br>OTOH, Wayland isn't a 1-off like Maemo was. Read a few weeks ago<br>that Maemo was getting a niche in the Gnome libs, to allow most of<br>the gnome stuff to be used, but automatically resize down to<br>Maemo-size where it makes sense. <a href="http://maemo.org/intro/">http://maemo.org/intro/</a><br><br>I have fond memories of my PalmPro, BBerry-950, and N800 devices. A<br>friend had a Zaurus which was crazy expensive for the time. If I<br>could get all the weenie programs from Palm, thumb-board from<br>Blackberry, Debian APT from the N800, and modern battery, wifi,<br>phone capabilities in a mostly F/LOSS device, under my control,<br>without google or other crapwear added for a "reasonable price",<br>I'd be very happy.<br><br>Take my money.<br><br>Heck, just playing back local-to-device audio without any tracking<br>would be nice out of the box (Google!).<br><br>On 9/17/20 2:05 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I've not used the nokia so I can't compare. It runs wayland for X.<br><br>On September 17, 2020 10:31:28 AM EDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br> Any comparisons to a Nokia N900?<br> Does it have X/Windows?<br><br> I'm still surprised at how bad phone PIMs are. Seems like someone<br> should have copied the PalmPilot PIM by now.<br><br> And the RIM 950 thumb-key.<br><br> On 9/17/20 8:29 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:<br><br> It arrived yesterday. Nice new toy. I got it with the nic/hdmi/usb<br> dongle. Got some hackery to do. Sshd is started from begining. Other<br> than a binary blob that runs the modem, it's all open source. Mini<br> dip switches under removable back cover that control modem, wifi and<br> bluetooth, cameras, microphone, and headphone. Removable battery and<br> reset switch and a 6-pin accessory hacking pin collection. Take the<br> tape off the battery connection. It helps :-) -- Computers amplify<br> human error Super computers are really cool<br><br></blockquote><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>