I mentioned this briefly in another post where someone was discussing forum issues.

But it just happened again, so I thought I would make a separate post, about this issue specifically.  I hope this is the right place.  I am going to try and ping @fire219 as well, as it's my understanding that this sort of thing might be his bailiwick(?).

When I am composing a post, I like to press the Preview button some times as I am editing.  Then some times (not all the time) the forum ends up inserting extra newlines.  And even if I try and manually remove them, they still get inserted back in the final post.  Once this starts, it seems every additional Preview might be adding another newline in the affected area(s).

You can see an example of this here (this just happened).

I have not nailed down exactly what conditions seem to cause it; when I can reliably reproduce the issue I will make another report.  But I thought I would mention it, in case someone else might also be experiencing the same issue.

Until then, cheers.

The USB specification actually specifies how the USB-A ports should be oriented. But PinePower 120W does not follow this (at least now). So it would be really nice to fix it in the next revision of PCB and rotate the ports by 180 degrees ;-)


In early days of USB, manufacturers of devices were using both correct and incorrect orientations. So it was really difficult to plug in the cables for the first time. Fortunately, I have not seen a device with the wrong orientation in last few years. So I was able to look like a "real wizard" by always connecting USBs on the first try :-) Well at least until today, when I received PinePower 120W and my OCD kicked in.

I did not find any mention of this issue anywhere, so starting new thread... Sorry if this is already known thing.

Hi,



I've searched the forum as best I could to see if there was a solution.



I have Mobian installed on SD card and Manjaro Plasma Mobile on eMMC.



I have this entry in fstab to automount the SD card:



/dev/mmcblk0p2 /media/mmcblk0p2  f2fs auto,user,rw 0 0



In Manjaro:

Symlink in ~/Music to /media/mmcblk0p2/home/mobian/Music/ogg

(Yes, I saw @tllim's post here but I thought I might as well post this anyway.)

I use a scientific calculator (Texas Instruments TI-30X IIS, to be exact) for schoolwork, and I like it, mostly. However, it is missing various capabilities which I would appreciate (e.g. it's missing some functions relating to processing data sets). This naturally gets me aggravated at my calculator for not providing such things, and furthermore makes me wish that TI provided a way to reprogram their calculators. (Ah, the value of open source software!)

This further led me to think: Hmm, a reprogrammable, open-source calculator... this sounds like it could be a Pine64 project! Therefore, I am throwing this idea out there in case anybody thinks it's a good idea.

As for specs:

- Given Pine64's recent interest in RISC-V, perhaps the calculator could have a low-power RISC-V CPU.
- This calculator should definitely be equipped with a solar panel to recharge the battery. I would get annoyed at a calculator that I had to recharge every night.
- A simple LCD panel would suffice for the display--it might not even need a backlight.
- RAM: not much would be needed; even a few kilobytes might suffice for a custom ROM, although Linux fans (like myself) would probably prefer the RAM to be in the megabytes to support Linux.
- Storage: again, not much; just enough for a ROM (or the Linux kernel) and a few bytes or so for storing user variables in memory.

Again, this is just my wild idea; if it's not a good idea, tell me.

Ordered one of the 'leftover' KDE CE Pinephones and am planning on using it with my current Verizon service when it arrives. Anyone have good experience with the Manjaro/KDE combo with Verizon? I had read that the Mobian / Phosh combo has worked well, so that is a definite option but am kind of a fan of the Plasma desktop and the mobile version looks very nicely polished!

I noticed interest in security and did a video on getting started with Firejail. While I demo it on the Pinetab (for viewability), I did the video with Pinephone users in mind.

Some users might think Firejail is unrealistically complicated-- the walkthrough will show you it's not.

You don't have to make a custom profile for each app (but you can customize later): Firejail has loads of ready profiles.

I go over what Firejail/Sandboxing is, how to use it, and use Firefox as an example. Towards the end we edit the Firefox button/icon on Phosh to make it run in Firejail sandbox by default. I also cover whitelisting so you do not lock yourself out of files while on Firefox.

Check it out here: https://youtu.be/7Q57Nj6Az3U

[Future videos will use another camera app- sorry about a couple moments of autofocus blurs!]

Just grabbed: Release 202102230241

I see it has gotten a connection to the cell provider by itself, but I am not getting a data connection.

Then looking at the settings, there is absolutely nothing in there at all do for manual settings.

What's going on with that?

Hi is sister mobile or tello mobile compatible with pinephone? Also TextNow is now free without WiFi over the Nationwide Sprint Network would that be compatible with pinephone. I put my IMEI number on this 3 websites and it said is compatible but want to check with you guys first. Sister mobile is $5 per month and tello mobile is also $5 per month. Textnow is free unlimited talk ad unlimited text you only have to pay for the sim one time $9.99 activation kit. I am looking for a inexpensive phone service or free service for pinephone because i don't use alot of minutes or text on phone so low minutes would be ok. Let me know if any of these 3 phones services would be compatible with pinephone if not which do you guys recommend?

Hello there Pine Community!

First Post! Woot! Super stoked to be joining what seems to be a pretty popin single board computer scene! 
Well then, On to me asking things and having problems before i even have the danm thing  .

Im planning on swaping the O.S. it ships with too Manjaro XFCE, as ive read it is the least resource intensive of the bunch (if im mistaken please feel free to enlighten)
Now, a few things have caught my attention, One being that it dosent seem to like to install on the emmc from a SD? Umm beyond that most of the problems seem to be from almost a year ago.

So, that being said, If anyone has any important tips or tricks to make this go smoother and save me some pain, Now would be the time!, and if there already is this exact thread somewhere, Please link them for me to read over

Thanks Yall!

Selling my spare UBPorts CE motherboard (2GB) for $85 (add $5 for insurance as  I believe Usps only insures the first $50 free) shipped in the US

It functions just fine, I've upgraded to a newer 3GB board and I'm looking to give this one a good home.  Feel free to contact me with any questions!