pinephone

• Note: Ooh the launch time for Firefox on Manjaro phosh beta 6 is down to about 5-6 seconds from 12-15.. still not particularly well adjusted for the small screen, adding add-ons and using menus are somewhat frustrating but a nice speed improvement.
• Note: Updated to Manjaro Phosh Beta 6 on my pinephone today, had been doing updates since beta 4 so missed some of the new stuff. Anbox now functions (after around 3 minutes to launch) and tusky worked reasonably well, but the most important android app for me (Indigenous) couldn’t complete the authentication journey so still not a replacement.
• Note: Trying out mobian on my pinephone and whilst its a similar experience to manjaro with phosh, one minor thing that is really impressing me is that mobile and wifi signals don’t appear to drop when the phone sleeps.
• Note: It seems like perhaps the time has come to try mobian on my pinephone, or will be when it has charged a bit.. though I may try and fiddle with zram on manjaro first.
• Note: Installed ‘foliate’ on my pinephone and its currently my favourite app on the device. It is well scaled, responsive and I like how it connects to online catalogues. Finishes ‘The strange case or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, though I’m pretty sure I had read it a few years back.
• Note: Applied the latest unstable manjaro-arm updates to my #pinephone and on reboot am asked to enter my root password for maintenance despite a software keyboard not being available.. somewhat of an oversight for a phone OS there it seems.
• Photo: Hmm as per the software manager advice, I tapped the “reboot and update” button on my pinephone.. about an hour ago and it’s still doing one or the other.. .. have I accidentally deployed windows to it?
• Note: After a bit more time playing about with the pinephone (manjaro beta 2 with phosh), I’ve a few more observations: Lack of Japanese rendering in firefox is problematic for me Anbox is not great, fuzzy graphically and due to conflicts with the phosh keyboard, somewhat unusable.