At this point I just want a tiny palmtop Linux computer like one of those GPDs, or what the Open Pandora / Fira? was supposed to be, so I can do actual tiny computer things.
And just keep a “smartphone” to blend in with normies and survive in society at a basic level.
I’m so sick and tired of having to hunt down some super specific (but hopefully popular enough for developers) SoC phone hardware that’s probably only sold in Europe anyway, so I can put a decent OS on it, which requires a whole weekend of steps because the hardware manufacturer doesn’t want you to, and it’s all good and dandy
“Except the camera doesn’t work and Bluetooth will randomly die.”
…Just to sidestep the ever present corpo-government panopticon trying to 24/7 beam the ad-verse directly into your brain.
My first iPhone 3GS was so exciting at first, so was my first Android I could put Cyanogen on. Now I hate these stupid manifest-landfill bricks because they’re so adversarial to human well being.
I just wish it didn’t require some absolute miracle of moved mountains to get some hardware that belongs to whomever buys it, instead of being black-boxed and booby-trapped to shit “Because screw you, that’s why.” Because The Market™ became about indebting and mining, instead of just selling a thing.
Agh! Sorry for the rant.
(Sent from my Motorola Stylus because they’ll at least unlock the boot loader if you ask nicely and I can use my SD card and drawing on it is neat.)
I have the GPD microPC. I’ve run Fedora and Arch on it both with great success. It supports s3 deep sleep mode so the battery lasts days with light use.
My only complaint is that the keyboard and mouse buttons are terrible. Ive also never been able to get it to fast charge (which it claims to support).
I tried their slightly larger models as well. A little too big for holding like a tablet and typing.
At this point I just want a tiny palmtop Linux computer like one of those GPDs, or what the Open Pandora / Fira? was supposed to be, so I can do actual tiny computer things.
And just keep a “smartphone” to blend in with normies and survive in society at a basic level.
I’m so sick and tired of having to hunt down some super specific (but hopefully popular enough for developers) SoC phone hardware that’s probably only sold in Europe anyway, so I can put a decent OS on it, which requires a whole weekend of steps because the hardware manufacturer doesn’t want you to, and it’s all good and dandy
“Except the camera doesn’t work and Bluetooth will randomly die.”
…Just to sidestep the ever present corpo-government panopticon trying to 24/7 beam the ad-verse directly into your brain.
My first iPhone 3GS was so exciting at first, so was my first Android I could put Cyanogen on. Now I hate these stupid manifest-landfill bricks because they’re so adversarial to human well being.
I just wish it didn’t require some absolute miracle of moved mountains to get some hardware that belongs to whomever buys it, instead of being black-boxed and booby-trapped to shit “Because screw you, that’s why.” Because The Market™ became about indebting and mining, instead of just selling a thing.
Agh! Sorry for the rant.
(Sent from my Motorola Stylus because they’ll at least unlock the boot loader if you ask nicely and I can use my SD card and drawing on it is neat.)
I have the GPD microPC. I’ve run Fedora and Arch on it both with great success. It supports s3 deep sleep mode so the battery lasts days with light use.
My only complaint is that the keyboard and mouse buttons are terrible. Ive also never been able to get it to fast charge (which it claims to support).
I tried their slightly larger models as well. A little too big for holding like a tablet and typing.
I heard the microPC 2 is out now.