This forum runs on horrible software. One of the wors UX that I experienced with open source software.

What was driving the decision on choosing MyBB instead of amazing alternatives, like [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/)?
Seems like simply the usual Pine64 way of doing things.

edit: I'm now discovering that it doesn't even support the de facto standard for simple formatting: Markdown.

I have had the following problems so far:
- It shows alerts for replies I have read: there are 2 replies on a post, it shows 2 alerts. I click the first, read it then scroll down to the other reply, and read that also. But the “Alerts” button still shows `(1)` for the other reply, and I have to click it to make it disappear.
- My replies in DMs are not shown in a conversation view.

I am using postmarketOS Phosh on the PinePhone.
Firefox is incapable of playing 720p video, even with the Firefox ESR hardware accelerration settings enabled.

Sometimes it completely lags for seconds, sometimes only a little bit, when UI (video controls/Phosh UI) is shown.
Needless to say, it gets very hot.

VLC can not even play a video.

What do you recommend for playing 720p video properly?

Since Pinebook pro will not boot at all ( black screen)

I'm trying to follow these instructions to make a bootable ubuntu 

https://itsfoss.com/create-live-usb-of-u...n-windows/

I don't know some answer needed  to get past  first step

1.  Is the system   MBR  or a GBT?

2.  is the system  UEFI  or legacy BIOS?

Pinebook Pro only started once, after that  I got black screen and see green power light on. 

I don't know what to do.  I have no other  linux machines.  but I do have working windows machines. 

Advice in discord  did fix it  since  no one  knows exactly  how to make a micro SD card in windows work.  I tried but it's not working. 
I'm not even sure I'm using rigt file.

some people in discord said to use SPI  file, then other people would come into discord and say no SPI file can't be made in windows.  at this point It has been many hours and screen is still black .   

people in discord seem to disagree on metod.   some will say to make a tow - boot but I can't make it work in  Etcher. 
some say don't do that.   I'm not sure which  are the correct steps  since I'm getting conflicting  information. 

All I know is  Pinebook  doesn't work, black screen and only every booted  up into Manjaro One single time.

I've been following this guide on how to connect my Librem5 to my Pinetime via bluetooth. It's reasonably recent (October 2022) and from the comments it seems to have worked for a number of people.

The issue I am having is I have been unable to detect my Pinetime from my Librem5's bluetooth. I have also been unable to detect the Pinetime from other devices I have like an iPhone.

Is there an obvious step I am missing? Also I don't know a great deal about blue tooth, is there instructions somewhere on how to troubleshoot detection issues with the Pinetime? I feel like I don't know what the right thing to search for to help resolve this is.

Hi.

I came across this article from the Genode team. They have analysed various power settings for the PinePhone and came to a impressively low standby power consumption.

This Article might be also of interest for people who wrestle with Linux-PinePhone driver ?

Pine fun - How low can we go...
(Sep. 2022)

There is also another thread here on the forum to discuss the progress with the PinePhone version of Sculpt-OS, the OS based on Genode.
Genode OS

I'm trying to build InfiniTime.  I can build InfiniSim but when I try to make it to flash to a watch, it has an error.



I've tried everything: copying the src folder from InfiniSim, installing lv_font_conv in a bunch of different directories, running the command in different folders, but I always get this error.

Hi,
When i unboxed the phone, tried to update, nothing.  Followed these instructions (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12459) got it working and updated via terminal. 

Upon rebooting, everything working except settings app, terminal and a few other programs i don't use.

Any advice?

Hi Whonix dev here. We are a privacy and anonymity distro project that have been around for a decade and privacy focused open hardware is a big deal for us. Your projects are a fantastic example of what is possible in the FLOSS space.

I'd like to share with you extra research we've been gathering on privacy attacks through clever misuse of hardware so you take this into account when adding hardware switches in future iterations of your products.

They are neatly summarized in the link below, but I will go ahead and mention them here:

* Speakers can be converted into auxiliary microphones to eavesdrop on the user

* accelerometers and gyroscopes may also be abused to reconstruct speech from sound wave vibrations.

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Surfing_Post...Mitigation

I've been using chatty with xmpp, but my xmpp messages that arrived after the phone goes into suspend mode cannot be decrypt while using omemo. Is there a workaround to make it work?