- The Pinephone Keyboard offers easily relocated keycaps.
- It has alternative layouts such as AZERTY or QWERTZ (Default).
- and a programmable open firmware by Megi
Currently my Pinephone is in a box in Zurich where it save from thieves. But I don’t know if it is worth for thieves to steal it. I did not use my Pinephone for a single day, although i dealed with it for many years.
And know I found that the Pinephone is almost daily driver ready for writers after many years. Look at the wonderful possibilities the Pinephone has for writers:
There are other devices availble for office mobile, but what is special about the Pinephone is it’s hard wired keyboard. This makes it to a robust device.
The Pinephone keyboard has issues, but one can work with. And the issues are known. And eventually someone makes an updated version.
There are 121 pages in the Pine64 forum about the Pinephone since 10-17-2019, 05:48 PM. This makes the Pinephone from a bad device to a good device.
There are other devices out there which are better for the one or the other application. But we need to build these device first. And who wants to do that now that the Pinephone has become a good device for writers, and there is no need to build a new device?
If you care for a special Pinephone distro and you are a skilled coder, please put Word 97 in your app store if this is possible. Jackfish has put the instruction here:
I will not use Word 97 on my Pinephone. It easier for me personally to use it only with Abiword and change to another device which offers LibreOffice without issues. But Word 97 in an app store of the Pinephone would be a reason to come back to the Pinephone.
With the Pinephone keyboard and Word 97 the Pinephone is a good daily driver for writers, and also worth stealing for the thieves in Zurich. Since even if you have a lot of money it is difficult to find a better device for writers which makes the Pinephone worth stealing.
I recently installed Manjaro (minimal) to the nvme on my Pinebook and it works great. I would like to setup xorg but I'm not sure which video driver the Pinebook needs? I read it uses Mali GPU, which means nothing to me.
Edi: Well the framebuffer one works apparently. I'm actually really surprised that I have to use the framebuffer driver.
It must be the kernel update then. I can continue to boot from the Trixie installation on the main chip. And then use my rescuemobian script to continue trying the upgrades on the Bookworm installation. Edit this to your installation, and then continue to try upgrades from this temporary environment.
Code:
#! /bin/bash
cd /home/d1/root
mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 /home/d1/boot
mount --bind /proc /home/d1/proc
mount --bind /sys /home/d1/sys
mount --bind /dev /home/d1/dev
mount --bind /run /home/d1/run
chroot /home/d1
Is there a way to limit the battery charge on the Pinetab2 to something less than 100% for long term battery health? I am running Kernel 6.9.5-danctnix1-1-pinetab2
Very glad to receive Pinebook Pro last Thursday June 27th.
Quite cautious with it- no new OS installs as am new to Pine products and fairly new to Linux.Sunday, June 30, Pinebook pro boots to Manjaro images. After a few hard reboots, Manjaro image, again. Press escape.
Received the message below. Hard re boot again to black screen and no Manjaro image. Unsure how to proceed. Please advise? Apologies if this was discussed previously
Hi. I have a pinephone pro. When I turn on the phone as soon as i login to OS the phone shuts down making a small noise from the speakers and sometimes it goes to black screen (no shutdown). This happens when it operates with the battery. If I plugin the charger boots normally. I tried this with OS phosh (mobian and Kali Linux) installed in emmc and also on SD card. I have tried with original battery and Samsung EB-BJ700CBE battery. Any help????
