PinePhone Postmarket OS UK users

[daniel]

Hi all hope everyone is doing ok?

So I have a few questions about the PinePhone Postmarket OS.

Does anyone here own or have used the PinePhone Postmarket OS in the UK?

And if so hows that going?

Also the hardware kill switchs?

Do they work the same as the Librem 5 kill switchs that directly cut power to the circuit?

Or are some of the HKS on the PinePhone software based, meaning they ask the software
to stop working rather that physically cut a circuit?

Thanks in advance

LinuxNew

There are 3 PinePhone editions.
After the first PinePhone was released (BraveHEart) users tested the phone, identifying hardware problems and many of these were corrected.
The second release was Community Edition. That came with Ubuntu Touch installed.
There are many Linux distributions can be installed in the PinePhone: Ubuntu, Debian [Mobian], Postmarket, etc
None of them is 100% functional. Actually, none of them can use the camera, phone calls are in progress, etc This is not ready to use as a main phone.
Moreover, many proprietary Linux software is made for AMD and will not work on pinephone (arm). The other will work, but software is not ready for a small screen. The community is working on software but it will take time.

The Third release will be Postmarket OS. Some hardware will be modified, but I do not think about major changes.

The kill switches are not for daily use. You have to remove the back cover and use a magnifier and a pointy stick to move them. I guess they are useful if you need to inactivate for a long period of time, not for on/off as daily use. I understand they are hardware-based.