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Haha yeah I’ve heard that they aren’t great, though most of the input I’ve seen is focused on the original rather than the pro. suppose I may be better served with some older compatible android phone after all.

also happily using the pine time, along with the pinecil v2. I’ve thought about the e-ink display and I’m glad that’s serving you well.

they’re using a fairphone 4, not a 6, but honestly I’m impressed things like calling and the camera seemed to work so seamlessly? I’m tempted to pick up one of these older android phones to poke around at. I think one of the mobile linux projects publishes a compatibility matrix somewhere.

I’d love to try a pinephone pro if they still produced them 😔

might as well? My 10 will be arriving soon and I’ll be doing the same. Reverting to stock is also an easy enough process

I managed to resolve this by slightly loosening the top screw, they work fairly reliabily now. I need to look into perhaps increasing the friction of the scroll wheel, as I’m finding that sudden movement causes it to rock and scroll accidentally. I’m wondering if I could grease the ends of the scroll bar or something to that effect.

stumbled upon this really cool mod leveraging megnets to introduce some tactility to the mousewheel, I might need to pick up an FDM printer to experiment 😊

e: seems the revised model leverages magnets to increase friction only, but I think that would also work

Mine arrived today, have you ever had issues where holding down RMB also holds down LMB with it? I’ve experimented with loosening the top screw slightly, and it’s greatly improved this behaviour but I don’t believe it’s been eliminated.

at this rate, couldn’t they just sunset their client and contribute towards heroic?

excellent find! hope it serves you well

nvidia have been promoting ‘big format gaming displays’ since I want to say about 2019. Some of them reach the dimensions you specify, I just hope these are VESA adaptive sync/FreeSync capable and not all GSync Ultimate module displays (they can be made to work in VESA mode but not without issues in my experience).

I think I’ve seen one or two obscure TV models offering DisplayPort over USB type C, it may have been from Hisense

No prob, really sorry about the situation though, I know it sucks. I’ve been looking into replacing my TVs with large PC displays with DisplayPort.

I’m not sure if you can somehow work around the HDMI forum limitation with an active converter, but I think they’re intended to be used at the adapter side (convert HDMI output to DP).

You don’t need proprietary drivers nor should you have to disable MST.

If you’re using HDMI 2.1, you won’t be able to use VRR on a Linux system as the HDMI forum have blocked the AMDGPU implementation for the feature - they don’t allow FOSS implementations of HDMI 2.1 VRR

More info here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate

how is it a sub par GPU given it targets a specific segment (looking at it’s price point, die area, memory & power envelope) with its configuration?

You’re upset that they didn’t aim for a halo GPU and I can understand that, but how does this completely rule out a mid to high end offering from them?

the 9000 series is reminiscent of nv10 versus vega10 GPUs like the 56, 64, even the Radeon 7; achieving equivalent performance for less power and hardware.

It’s a good thing! he genuinely cares about user privacy. The Wikipedia entry had some info worth reading

oh it’s nick from Calyx 😊

I think that’s their fork of Waydroid.

I would try to get the repack set up via the lutris client using the appropriate method for the installation media you have. Do you know if it’s the steam or origin version?

I don’t suppose the lutris install script for this game helps at all?

https://lutris.net/games/command-conquer-remastered-collection/

I think maybe take a look at the performance and power seen during the video, things don’t seem to line up correctly.

That said, Linux is generally slightly more performant in handheld devices and I think that will continue to hold true despite Microsoft’s recent opts.

i haven’t really had stability issues with kodi/jellyfin, rasbian/Ubuntu, retropi etc. I appreciate where you’re coming from but it’s kind of a knockabout device to help me learn more about apps I would like to host on a proper server later on.

generally am not happy with my pi5 as a hw offering, even as far as cheap arm based SBCs go.

The SD card didn’t abruptly die or anything like that, NCP kind of ground to a halt following automatic maintenance. I couldn’t get it to cooperate, so I just decided to take it offline.

didn’t have anything important on there, was just using it as a test.

That said, I have heard of particularly problematic SD card models that are known to fail with the pi5.

Totally understandable. For whatever it’s worth, you can permanently disable and remove snap and snapd from an Ubuntu system (I had to do this recently with a raspberry pi 5). The amount of work to do this, however, may be practically equivalent to installing plasma on mint / lmde, but the guides on this are thankfully straightforward in case you’re ever interested.

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/snap-remove-disable

This works well in practice, and upgrades still work as intended. I may need to follow this guide again very soon, as nextcloud pi unexpectedly died on me. I’m thinking of flashing either Ubuntu or trying their Debian fork out again.