Hi,

I’ve seen a few posts with signatures that indicate people use mobile apps to interact with the Pine64 forums. Can anyone recommend a good one?

Ben

With retroarch (PPA version of retroarch) the sound is jerky on every core I've tried.
Do you see the same thing?
Do you have any ideas for optimization?

Will the Pine Phone Brave Heart support 4G  and  5G  ?
 I hear that 3G is going to soon be history on most  Providers.
       Thanks

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Maybe the Pine Team can resurrect the CPU? They were looking for someone to take over a while back as the guy whote started it all went to do other work, maybe for the NSA.

Will there be any Accessories offered for purchase when we pre-order our Brave Heart Phones  ?

There are several things I tend to do, making client systems listen on fewer external services. And not run un-needed local services.

What do you do?

Here is my list, (a work in progress);

SSHD - Disable Root login
File - /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitRootLogin no
Service - systemctl restart sshd

NTPD - Don't allow others to use me for time source
File - /etc/ntp.conf
restrict 127.0.0.1 nomodify nopeer noquery limited kod
restrict [::1]
interface ignore wildcard
interface listen 127.0.0.1
interface listen ::1
Service - systemctl restart ntpd

Chromium browser
Launcher change: --password-store=basic

SMBD - Disable Samba services
systemctl stop smbd
systemctl disable smbd
systemctl stop nmbd
systemctl disable nmbd

Avahi service
systemctl stop avahi-daemon.service
systemctl stop avahi.daemon. socket
systemctl stop dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service
systemctl disable avahi.daemon. socket
systemctl disable dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service

I finally received my PBP. And broke it already... I run the default linux Open Sesame, as it comes from the factory.

As I could barely read the small letters with the HD / 1920x1080 resolution, I choose to reduce the resolution.

I changed it from the display settings from 1920x1080 to something like 1360x786 or so.
I clicked apply system wide, and apply.

After a reboot, I get the login prompt. When I login, the screen goes blank and stays blank.

How can I restore the original settings, or boot to rescue mode, or reset factory defaults, without having the GUI? From the console prompt? Or any other option?

My apologies if this has been already discussed and I admit that, with the imminent release of the Pinephone, I am hoping that some kind person may be able to help.  If it all lines up I am hoping to purchase a Pinephone when they are released.

I have looked and can't find any information about the phone with regard to bands/freq that it will cover.  In regional Australia the important band is the B28 band.  I have been monitoring the Librem 5 for a while and that phone, at least so far, will not cover that band making the phone only usable really in major centres, which is no good for me.

So are there perhaps any Australians here who may have investigated this and be prepared to fast track my knowledge?

Thanks for any help that my come forth.

Has someone tried using a M.2 to PCIe x4 riser card on the Pinebook Pro for shit'n'giggles ?

Did you manage to get something else than an NVMe recognized?
(Sata card/Network card/other PCIe card? Or let's be even more over-optimistic: some PLX (as Rockchip doesn't handle bifurcating) and *multiple* PCIe cards or a GPU ?)

I don't really think of any real-world use case that couldn't be handled by using USB 3.0 or does even make sense (a discrete GPU on this low-power chromebook-like laptop), but probably somebody is going to try this "for the lulz".

What keyboard is this? It is not standard North American, as I thought it would be.

What "layout" is it. It will be frustrating as it is to have a different layout, but even more if this odd layout is mapped incorrectly.

Thanks.