Stripping my device down to the bare essentials

[kqlnut]

I don't know that I'm prepared to switch carriers. Like I said, at this point I want to use my Pinephone as an MP3 player. I assumed Mobian was the right disto because my music manager is GTK. What can I do to strip this down? I'm thinking it must be running too many processes all the time, which is why it runs down the battery and is so slow.

You can list all systemd services and filter them for enabled ones with

Code:

systemd list-unit-files | grep enabled

and then check what you could disable.

You can check your running processes with top to see if there are any you don't need that consume a good amount of CPU power and go about killing/disabling them from there.

And maybe also try disabling wireless devices with rfkill. I'm not sure how the system works, but maybe it makes a difference on top of disabling the devices physically.

But I'm afraid you won't get too much out of all this, having the device not suspended and play audio with Phosh just drains the battery much faster. Maybe it's better with a light weight distro like SXMO (running a GTK app on there shouldn't be a problem, it would probably just be a bunch of dependencies added; could also make sense to go for a light weight music player, maybe even something terminal based).