Thought this video could be of interest to the forum, demonstrating something interesting you can do on your Pinephone (using a well known encryption front end called Zulucrypt).

Luks encryption is a standard on Linux. However did you know if your phone is hacked or stolen while powered on/unlocked, that data becomes retrievable by potential thieves?

Howto: create a hidden encrypted volume inside a video file. Allowing you to store especially sensitive files/data such as for example:
cryptocurrency keys, banking information, journalist notes/source information, and anything else that needs to stay encrypted/discreet (most of the time).

Anytime you unlock this encrypted volume inside a video file, that volume acts as a normal block device: you can read it, write to it etc. Unmounting locks the hidden volume back into a video file.

Video: https://youtu.be/87yg8peq3kw

I gave vivaldi a try.  it seems reasonably responsive.
However it displays web pages only using the left half the screen.  The right side is some sort of what looks to be a vivaldi supplied background image.

vivaldi itself, its menus, and such all seem properly placed, but when I visit a web page it only populates the left half of the display area.  The scroll bar is basically in the middle.

Left / right scroll works but only within the 1/2 screen.

Also, the exit dialog pops up a confirmation model and the okay button is off the screen.

Switching the phone vertical to horizontal orientation and back fixes the screen layout and allows one to get to the exit button  also.

I went into the default chat app and was surprised to find the send button for the text message off the screen to the right.

Switching the phone to horizontal gave me access to the button.

Hi all,

I've just installed Mobian Phosh on my Pinephone flashing it on my SD card. I find it incredibly useful, fast and easy to use, but waiting for improves to come.

I find a problem now when I try to update the Operative system or when I try to install any other software. I can't do it because, as it notifies me, executing dpkg was interrupted, and I have to execute it manually "dpkg --configure -a" to fix the problem.

The other problem I have, is that I can't find terminal to try to fix that, and I can't install it because of the same issue.

Thanks a lot for helping me,

Gon.

Hello,

I have an up to date manjaro-arm plasma-mobile system and even pre the latest update when I open the terminal all goes well for a while inputting characters to bash then i will suddenly see my input in the 'auto-complete'(?) top part of the virtual keyboard? Pressing enter will still run the commands sometimes but soon no characters are input anywhere, bash, or the auto-complete section. Closing the terminal from the gui and starting it again solves the problem temporarily until the cycle repeats. Also is there any way to run the terminal in landscape mode and increase the font size? Thanks.

Hi folks!

Has anyone who uses mobian tried to connect to a wifi access point with WPA3 (SAE) enabled? My PineTab cannot connect, although "WPA3 personal" is set in the network manager. "WPA2/WPA3 mixed mode" works fine...

If I have a PP connected to a weakly charged laptop, it would be useful to turn off the charging of PP batteries while maintaining data transfer. How to do it?

Hi all

I'm running Fedora on my PBP and a few things I like are not packaged for ARM64 so I have started doing it myself.

I do not like Fedora's default font settings, so I use the `dawid/better_fonts` Copr. I also like to use Hack as my terminal font and neomutt for my mail. None of the were packaged for arm64, so here are some coprs that do:

• https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/...ter_fonts/
  
• https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/...ack-fonts/
  
• https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/...x/neomutt/
  

Hi there, just curious if anyone has installed dwm suckless on their pinebook pro? I use it on archlinux but i'm not sure if it will work with ARM.
Any input its appreciated in advanced.

I've recently received my new PBP. Before setting up a new system, I tend to benchmark things to see what it can do and spot out any issues. I thought it might be interesting to other readers to know my results, and I am sharing them here.

I'm using a PBP with a Kingston A2000 SSD. I was able to install it without issues and it is recognized on /dev/nvme0n1. I set the power level to 3 (sudo nvme set-feature /dev/nvme0 -f 2 -v 3) I created a gpt partition and formatted it as ext4. 

In order to benchmark it, I disabled swap (sudo swapoff /dev/zram0) and then used dd to write/read a 8GB file (2x physical memory size) multiple times on the nvme partition.

My results are an average write of 395MB/s and an average read of 590MB/s. I'm very happy with this result as it is a very low power setting and about 10x faster than I could achieve on a microSD card with a samsung chromebook plus.