A host named regret
(04-17-2025, 10:56 AM)KC9UDX Wrote: Perhaps ask yourself why you spent all the money you could afford for a phone on a phone described as "Beta Edition PinePhones are aimed solely at early adopters. More specifically, only intend for these units to find their way into the hands of users with extensive Linux experience."Maybe ask yourself why you felt the need to passive-agressively assume things about me.
I explained in OP why I bought the phone. Did you read it?
Do you have a reason to think I lack "extensive Linux experience"? No. You do not.
Can someone be an "early adopter" of a device that's been out for 6 years?
Nobody asked you to recite the words of the wiki. We've all read them.
Similarly, there is no call for you to make excuses for the poor state of the software. A lot of people have done a lot of work, much of it uncompensated, to make this device hum as designed and intended. No one intended that it would be a hot paperweight. This stuff is hard.
Both my other pine64 machines improved over time (even if it never learned to sleep correctly) and I expected the pinephone to be in a state more nearly usable. I had hoped it would be at least as usable as people here on the forums had described- because, you see, I had read PAST that first page you quoth.
If you find that unreasonable, I invite you to ignore the rest of my posts, as you will likely find them unreasonable too. If I could find a way to block you, I would do that. I don't have time for smarmy, time-wasting jerk behavior.
In the meanwhilst, I have flashed "edge" postmarketOS to the sdcard, and the phone is now unbricked. Yay! It even makes calls again. I think.
I will say that the fact that the phone started making calls ALMOST without fuss (there was some initial fuss, the SIM holder that came with the phone seemed to prevent the card working & also didn't fit flush, I had a spare to use) is the one area where the reality of pinephone has exceeded my expectations. I expected a much harder fight getting cell service to work.
marking "solved" because there isn't actually a specific issue with the phone here, I'm just sad that a mad tv clown made it so i cant get parts