Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

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The “Linux Cast” is wrong – the Pinephone is good

Posted bypg@petergamma.org

Last Updated on June 19, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

I contradict what “The Linux Cast” says:

that the Pinephone is not bad:

the Pinephone is good

After I was annoyed for several years about the Pinephone I came today to this conclusion.

and the reason is:

Office mobile

  • I had issues for a long time to be on the wrong path with LibreOffice LibreOffice on the Pinephone:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16614

  • These kind of applications are the wrong choice for this pine wood phone.
  • Abiword works satisfyingly on the Pinephone.
  • Gnumeric works satisfyingly on the Pinephone.
  • I need a device for mobile office daily.
  • And I could not find an alternative device which is as handy as the Pinephone.
  • I have articulated here all my wishes:
How to make out of the Pinephone a device which suitable for office mobile applications?
  • And if someone has the same needs as I have and want to make all of my whishes real, this is very welcome.
  • Just put everything I mentioned into a Pinephone distro and put it onto a GITHUB page.
  • This would be fine, but I can do without it.

Writing to the external SD card

  • Is a trivial problem with permissions in Linux I suppose:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19297

  • It was not trivial for me personally since I am a Linux beginner.
  • So I had to put my Pinephone on the screed for one year until I saw the light.
  • And nobody in the Pine64 forum I asked for help saw the light as well and could help me in a way that I saw the light.
  • They could only help me with strange work-arounds which have let me put my Pinephone onto the screed.

folder sharing to a desktop PC

  • Supporters in the Pine64 forum suggest sophisticated solutions:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18080

  • All of these are scary for me personally.
  • I am scared that they could annoy me for another year.
  • And I have to put my Pinephone on the screed for another year, until I recover from being annoyed.
  • Also regarding the Pinephone and Samba sharing the Pine64 forum was not helpful to this date:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19298

  • But I looked at some instructions for a Samba sharing today.
  • Samba sharing between a Raspberry Pi, a Windows and Linux PC is easy.
  • And what is easy with a Raspberry Pi is certainly also easy with the Pinephone.
  • And as soon as data exchange over the external SD card work to my PC.
  • And as soon as Samba sharing work to my Ubuntu PC.

Then my Pinephone is a device which I can work with as a daily driver.

  • Which it was not for many years.
  • And then it is eventually also worth to have a closer look how to change the keyboard layout of the Pinephone.
  • I am currently setting up a NextCloudPi server for data exchange between my old Android phone and my desktop PC:

https://petergamma.org/category/nextcloudpi

  • This is relatively easy to setup and should work.
  • I do this because I could not solve with the Pinephone what I wanted up to the present day for several years.
  • Has this to do with the promotion which was done on YouTube about the Pinephone?
  • And has this to do with people who use marketing software to contol certain device forums?
  • NextCloudPi requires more devices than a single Pinephone.
  • And these are a Raspberry Pi with NextCloudPi and a router.
  • NextCloudPi is a complicated a complicated chain.
  • a Pinephone could make this chain simpler.
  • And as soon as I have time I can can try to solve the problems mentioned above.
  • But to depend upon the Linux Pinephone is not good for the mind
  • This is my personal experience which I share here.
  • Therefore I will use an Android phone with NextCloudPi for the time being, which was relatively easy to set up.

A main issue where for me personally with the Pinephone the YouTube reviews about this device. They raised expectations the device did not full-fill, as for instance:

“The Pinephone can do everything”:

This statement is wrong. The Pinephone cannot change the natural laws. Therefore the statement that the Pinephone can do anything is already refuted.

  • But all the same, I invite you to look for alternatives to the Pinephone as soon as possible as I do.
  • I do it since years, and haven’t found it.
  • But it is worth to have a closer look at devices which are based on the Rasbperry Pi zero 2 w or CM4.
  • There are more and more devices which are built on these platforms available.

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