Running Retro Games with Rust is not that hard on PineTime Smart Watch... Here's how I ported the libchip8 CHIP-8 Game Emulator to PineTime...

(Lemme know if you're keen to use Retro Games as a Watch Face!)
https://lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rust-...cles/chip8

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Just a note that Alpha 4 is now out and it is advised instead of updating alpha 3 to  use alpha 4 instead.

Link to Official Alpha 4 Thread

Changes since Alpha3:

• Phonebook app can now save contacts
  
• Power button now locks the screen.
  
• Added Manjaro ARM wallpaper.
  
• Added a couple of new apps.
  
• Favorites bar now shows.
  
• Brightness control now works.
  
• New Plasma Mobile interface.
  
• The Alpha images are now using Unstable branch.
  
• New 2 partition layout with extlinux.conf file.
  
• Password changed for default user to
  1234

Hey all,

We're having serious problems with one of the IRC nodes - this will take 6-12 hours to resolve.
In the meantime I suggest you use a different protocol for chatting. If you're intent for using IRC, use this link: http://uk.pine64.xyz:9090/?channels=Pine...MTE9MjE131


Everything should be working now.

I've been playing some more and discovering new things.

1) Network/Mobile Broadband connected does not persist over a reboot. (I have WiFi and Airplane mode Off/Disabled in Settings, they stay Off after reboot).

2) Bluetooth works but needs service started. Connected with my BT keyboard fine but screen dims then brightens regularly, perhaps in time with BT heartbeats?

3) I think the Portrait/Landscape icon/wording in the pull-down menu should be reversed? When in portrait mode I should see an icon to go to Landscape? (And vice versa?)

4) Telegram-desktop working pretty well, but telegram notifications (popup nicely on screen) are setting volume to zero.

5) Firefox with pmOS wiki hints. working great

One thing I quickly get used to is being able to use hosts to block ads and all kinds of other crud: was getting harder on Android (mainly getting su permissions on each new handset) but another advantage of the PinePhone, it is easy. Sad though to see my favourite source has chronic health issues.

Can't boot android 9 on rock64. I tried sdtools and etcher methods. And tried different sd cards. How to solve this problem?

log from serial console

I have a RockPro64 board, that I plan to setup as a home server using an M.2 SSD for storage. My preferred Linux distro is Debian, and as this will be an internet facing server, it needs to be fully patched.

I downloaded and installed Mrfixit2001's Debian desktop release. The level of polish on the desktop environment is very impressive, but I am concerned that it is running an older Debian release that will go out of support soon, a 4 year old kernel, and does not appear to be updatable. (I tried changing /etc/apt/sources.list to point to buster, but the upgrade failed).

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to install Debian buster with a mainline Debian built kernel? I did find an install guide on the Debian wiki for the Pine A64, but I don't think that would be much help as the Pine A64 uses an Allwinner A64 SOC, so the bootable image is unlikely to work.

Alternatively, are there any guides on how these bootable images are put together, so I can have a go at creating a minimal text mode Debian one that can be upgraded?

Thanks.

Does Pine64 publicly track security vulnerabilities and when they were mitigated in the default OSes of its products?

(This question prompted by my curiousity as to whether or not the PBP default debian install was vulnerable to kr00k.)

Hi all. There are many Pine64 rooms on Matrix and each uses different thumbnail (some use just a Pine64 logo on different backgrounds, some use product images). IMHO, the lack of unified style for them somewhat prevents the feeling that they belong to one organization. So I tried to make some thumbnails:



Downscaled Pine64 logo there might look unclear in Matrix clients because of the very small size, so here is another version without them (hopefully background pattern makes it visually identifiable as Pine64):



If people here (including Matrix rooms admins) like the idea, I can send SVGs and PNGs of the needed size or improve what's needed. Any suggestions are welcome. Also, if I forgot any room, please tell me.

Btw, I didn't find Pine64 logo in vector format, so I converted it from raster one and it might be inaccurate, if anybody can help me to find it in vector, I'll replace it. Plus, I removed pine's tail from the logo, sorry, I was just experimenting with it's look when downscaled, I'll bring it back if needed)

I'm getting a pinebook pro soon and I'm wondering if anyone has tried overclocking it and how fair you can push the board

You may have seen mentions of Fedora + GNOME in the chat, or linked to from lists of PinePhone software. Although running GNOME on a phone was pretty cool, it's borderline unusable as it is. Over the last few weeks, I've been learning how to package phosh (and related apps) and finally have them ready for Fedora Rawhide!

I updated the build script to add my COPR repository and add Phosh: https://github.com/nikhiljha/pp-fedora-sdsetup
... and I finally have flashable images: https://github.com/nikhiljha/pp-fedora-s.../releases/
... if you're already running Fedora (somehow), you can also add my COPR and just install the new packages: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/njha/mobile/

If you're going to use the flashable image, please read the releases page carefully. It contains important information.

Things are still heavy WIP and are nowhere near as good as UBTouch or pmOS. I hope to have an image where calling and texts work out of the box soon ™.