Hi,

I have a micro sd card that I want to install Debian (or Ubuntu in case Debian doesn't work) and directly boot and use it as my primary storage space (it is 256gb so would be sufficient).

How can I achieve this? I have not tried this before; so, any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

I am a new Pinebook Pro user, who is trying to find a way through setting up a productivity laptop. I tried the default Manjaro KDE Plasma but it does not meet my needs/workflow.

I bought a micro sd card, a samsung evo plus with 256gb of storage. I want to install debian (or ubuntu if debian is not possible). I was wondering if there is any available help or tutorials/videos I can use to achieve my goal?

I want to be able to boot from the micro sd card directly without having to go through the built in drive. I also want to leave Manjaro KDE as is. Would this be possible?

Any help or directions is appreciated as I have not done this before.

Here you can ask about any outstanding shipping issues or other problems related to the the UBports CE PinePhone or Q2 Pinebook Pros.
I am currently on holidays, but will do my best to help in sorting out any outstanding issues.
Thanks.

Hi,

I want to install sage on my pinebook pro; I was wondering if it is possible? I am on Manjaro KDE and apparently I am having problems in finding the correct package.

Also, I want to learn if sagemath is available on debian for pinebook pro?

Best,

PS: I tried compiling sagemath but it is very resource hungry. It ended draining my battery.

I want to have an LED connected to the rockpro64 via GPIO. I want it to stay lit but flicker when there is activity over SATA. I saw there was an old pi project on GitHub that did this but I don’t think that will work on a pi. 

I’ve looked around online but the best I can find is controlling pins with an obsolete method. Something prior to the character device we have pins presented to us now. It didn’t explain how to make it indicate anything either. 

Has anybody done this before?

Hi there,

I thought that I recalled a mention in an old blog post about a possible Pine64 router... does anyone know anything about that? I would desperately love something along these lines with the usual Pine64 level of open software, hardware and security. I need to replace my failing router and would love to do it Pine style.

If a PineRouter doesn't and isn;t going to exist, then I noticed that someone was talking about installing OpenWRT on a RockPro64. What I don't understand about that, is how you would connect that to any client devices over ethernet when presumably the only ethernet port would be used to connect to the modem. Would it be WiFi clients only?

I really love my pinephone.

And I am very close to giving up my android phone, but

I need an audio player that can play locally downloaded files which includes skip buttons, something like skip 15 seconds, or skip 30 seconds.

And I need the authenticator app to support scanning with the camera.

I suspect I will just have to be patient, or willing to type in long keys, for the authenticator app.

Any suggestions for an audio player with skip-ahead/back capability?

I've been using Manjaro+Gnome, and its been great. I like Gnome.

However, just today I was using Manjaro+XFCE for a short time, and the trackpad acceleration and sensitivity is superior!

Does anyone have recommendations on how I can "fix" trackpad sensitivity in Gnome to be as responsive as XFCE? Ive been digging it dconf, but no luck yet.

I had an email this morning  to say that Ascendia Post as halted service and would I like to upgrade to DHL?

Has anyone else heard or know about this?

I'm a Canadian living in Serbia, ordered two Pinebook Pros and a Pinephone a couple months ago via Poland, finally got my hands on them.

I'm very happy with the PBPs. I opened them up and exchanged the screens, because of reasons (a dead pixel, but it seems to have woken up), it was very easy and I can see doing other mods.

The battery occasionally draining faster than the charge can charge it is a bit weird, the speakers are... unfortunate and on one of the units the trackpad is a bit proud in one corner and not so clicky. Maybe a slight corona-related issue, not a huge problem. Everything else is good. They look sharp and run well. Ah, need a toothpick or something to get the microSD card out, a bit too fiddly.

I was on some ancient no-battery beast for months, life was hell. Doing my work daily on the PBP now, huge, huge improvement. If I designed a laptop, it would pretty much be this, but at the same time, if something happens to it, for $200, not a huge deal, which I appreciate.

The phone, physically is pretty impressive. Just can't really do anything with it yet given the state of software development. I'm biased in favor of the postmarketOS/plasma design philosophy, but it's not the most usable option out there atm. Some kind of resolution/hardware acceleration issue too. Trying sailfish next. UBPorts looked nice, I'll give it that.