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Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you’re reading this.
The Steam Machine… Eh.
I have a gaming laptop a few years old that I installed Bazzite on and hooked into my TV. It works as my living room gaming PC already and feels like a Steam Machine already :)
Wakes up from my Xbox controller, sleeps and resumes games perfectly, etc.
Frame I’m interested in. Controller I’m going to buy 100%
I have a OnePlus Nord N10 5G I picked up to play with Ubuntu Touch.
Now that VoLTE works I can actually make and receive calls which makes it nearly usable.
I wish RCS could work but that may be out of their hands. Group texts (MMS) don’t work either unfortunately.
It’s close to usable but still not ready for me personally.
I did contribute to Ubuntu Touch though by adding Colemak keyboard layout support and they accepted my pull request :D
Bootloader is unlockable. Battery probably going to be average we’ll have to wait for a teardown.
storage to be decent
256GB plus microSD
Comet
Comet’s not really a phone though is it? I mean it looks like it might be able to get cellular. But I have a secondary device I test a Linux phone OS on and for me it’s just not ready.
I dunno something weird is going on with that it looks like a link to the article in my client
It makes it more of a challenge but there have absolutely been a few Mediatek ROMs. Example: https://www.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-8-pro-custom-development-lineageos-17-1-google-camera-port-pixel-experience/
“dumb” phones are trendy so they lean into it. It’s marketing. This phone should be less convenient to doomscroll say, TikTok on.
Personally that’s not why I’m interested
Uhhh… That is the link of the post though?
No. The company makes one of those too however they are making the Clicks Communicator which IS an Android phone.
Unfortunately Graphene has an insanely specific set of requirements and basically are only interested in Pixels or devices that are built from the ground up for it.
Just shit on Microsoft they’ll probably find common ground in that
It’s not impossible for custom ROMs to exist. And possibly GSIs.
Maybe being a enthusiast niche device (and a unique one) could mean a bit more dev attention.
This IMO is great news. It should be powerful enough to do everything you could want from it smoothly, at least on this kind of device.
Pinning your versions just means updating will be a pain, and you’ll probably start running outdated containers that are security risks.
It’s not like you’re doing code audits every updates anyway. Just use containers that are established and seem trustworthy. It’s all you can really do.
It’s existence alone didn’t bother me, but the day I went to install something with APT and it force installed the Snap was the last day I ever used Ubuntu.
Snap - fuck you
Unnatural. Should be illegal.
Just start with the base launcher. They’re all decent nowadays. If you really want to change it after a while Lawnchair is one of the favorites.
Really though each side is more and more similar. It’s a phone, it isn’t all that different anymore. Phones are boring now.
With the Razr I will say get in the habit of using the outside screen as much as possible.
always thought it would be fairly simple to have a Windows program that setup a temporary boot to a Linux ISO that gets stored to RAM. (So that the drive can be wiped for install as needed) Debian based distro ISOs (or maybe just Ubuntu idk) load to RAM with “toram” kernel parameter.