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Cake day: November 16th, 2020

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  • Yes, ThinkPad is great for Linux. Only had/have a few but always a pleasure to use. So reliable. Plus I really don’t like touchpads so ThinkPads for the win. Even have two ThinkPad standalone keyboards (one wireless, one wired) for when I hook up to a mobile device, media box, or mini PC.

    T21, Pentium III - Slackware 12 & Windows XP

    SL510 2847DKU - MX Linux 21.2.1_(respin) FVWM_Ext, OpenBSD, and Void Linux

    E15 Gen 3, AMD Ryzen 7 - Slackware 15

    X1 Carbon Gen 3, Intel Core i7 - Fedora KDE Plasma Mobile Spin

    Anyone know if it’s possible to use the SIM slot in the X1 Carbon? Also, any recommendations for an alternate distro that is ideal for that laptop/tablet combo?





  • Yes, I am in the U.S. Sailfish has been available for the Pines early on. Most of the time I was on T-Mobile and later Mint Mobile. Calls worked fine I remember. VoLTE wasn’t being forced yet so maybe that’s why.

    Regarding non-user-servicable battery, I have a ZTE Axon 7 that was in need of a new battery. I have the batteries and included tools but I lamented the task of prying open the case. Laziness and procrastination turned into weeks, then months, and sad to say, years. One of these days. :D

    I actually have a third Pinephone. The one that came with Ubuntu Touch way back when. It had that faulty USB thing. I got an updated mainboard (more RAM and EMMC) but never got around to swapping it in. Another one of these days.

    With everything that’s been going on with Android I really do want a Linux that can be a daily driver. Just need to put in more effort. I keep throwing them aside for weeks at a time.


  • I have the Pinephone and Pinephone Pro (both with Sailfish OS which I really like), Pixel 3a XL (Droidian), and an old Nexus tablet with UBTouch. Had ordered the FuriLabs FLX1 just as it went unavailable. Haven’t yet opted in to receive the new FLX1s due to its “downgraded” feature set. What I wanted from the old (headphone jack, removable battery) are not there on the new but we get kill switches. Ooh. Not like I ever used them on the Pinephones. So I’m on the fence but may go for it. I was using the Droidian phone as a daily driver test bed in anticipation of the FLX1.

    Pinephone Pro has been discontinued.

    All of my Android phones are VoIP (XMPP) so I don’t have to worry about things like VoLTE. I use JMP.chat to be able to call/text anyone in my contacts. On the Linux side that’s not really doable although with WayDroid it’s workable. WayDroid works fine on Droidian but not so much on Sailfish. From what I read the FuriOS version of WayDroid is even better.

    The recommendation posted here about the OnePlus 6 (and 6T) is a good one. Seems it is an ideal phone for say postmarketOS. Most features are known to work save for camera which barely works on any Linux Mobile.
















  • Sorry for the really late response. Since one of the OSes is BSD I have one shared FAT32 partition mostly for basic getting-things-from-one-to-the-other stuff. Far as I know OpenBSD does not support ext4 (at least not r/w). It does support ext2.

    Since all three OSes have the Nextcloud client it would have been cool to have its directory on a shared partition to reduce redundancy.

    I may change things up, format it to ext2 and see if I can use it to share Documents, Music, Pictures, and Video across all three OSes. Maybe.