Tutorial or help on this distro?

[ragreenburg]

I just made a public GItHub repo to remind myself of how I setup things on my Arch installation. Maybe it will help you out a bit?

https://github.com/d0n601/PinePhone

I see you're using the protonmail bridge, how is that with RAM/CPU/Battery life? I haven't put it on my phone yet because I figured it would eat up one of those three since they are all so limited on the PinePhone.

Also, why not just use the MMS fork of Chatty for MMS? Just curious.

I haven't noticed the battery draining any faster with Proton Bridge and Evolution mail running. I sleep with it turned on and not plugged in, and it lasts through the night lol (goes from 90% to about 65-70%). As far as memory usage, bridge only uses about %1.5-%5 of my memory, and %0-%7 of my CPU according to what I'm looking at right now.

Code:

alarm      61037  6.9  1.4 1963424 29292 pts/1   SLl+ 10:16   0:27 proton-bridge --cli --noninteractive

I haven't been following the progress of the MMS fork of Chatty. I've been lazy and waiting for it to get merged, since my bash script is working well enough for my liking. Last I looked the build process seemed a bit complicated and I just didn't want to bother. I'll have to take another look at it though.

That's great, I might actually have to run Proton Bridge now. Though Geary has been terrible at notifying me of email anyway so it might not matter.

For what it's worth the MMS fork is now showing MMS inline with messages and has been working great. The build process is literally download the fork, cd into the directory and run

Code:

meson build

and then

Code:

ninja -C build

so it is pretty straight forward. I can see how people would think it is complicated because they mention building half a dozen things but really you only need to build Chatty itself. It also is halfway merged into Chatty but they might be waiting for it to mature before it actually gets into an official release, unfortunately.

Either way, here is the repo is you maybe want to try the MMS fork. https://source.puri.sm/kop316/chatty