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  • In theory, you should just see the same apps in Discover and in GNOME Software, assuming they both can access/install native Alpine and flathub apps. (And I recall they did at some point in time, but breakage unfortunately happens, and I mostly use the terminal to install and remove things…)

    With Ubuntu Touch apps it’s different, the Open Store is its own thing. I want to look into whether adapting this to postmarketOS when I can find the time.

    Regarding few apps: Yes, it could be more, yes, there are gaps, but we’re doing somewhat okay: https://linuxphoneapps.org/


  • 1peter10toLinux@lemmy.mlWhy did PinePhone fail?
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    Glad that works for you! With my bank (comdirect.de) I can use a mobile website, and if I were to use something AOSP- or Halium-based, I could also use their PhotoTAN app, which, as the name implies, needs a working camera in Waydroid (on my OP6 with pmOS, the cameras work via libcamera, but not in Waydroid), so I have a small gadget for all these TANs.

    My main worry with the “let’s just use Play Store/Aurora store and the run that apk”-approach is that it does not really send a visible signal to banks that they need to keep considering customers that don’t use Android proper.

    It also always means that the next update (e.g., after some consultancy or some audit happened) may not work any more, meaning, access may be revoked at any time. Complaining to customer service or in Play Store reviews may have an effect, but it will still hurt. I think I would feel a tad safer if a banking app lived on FDroid… but sill.

    I hope this gets my point across.


  • 1peter10toLinux@lemmy.mlThe state of Linux phones in 2025
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    As someone who spent some time on the topic (result), it’s not that every new app is adaptive. Even if someone uses the nice new widgets of libadwaita (or previously libhandy (GTK3)), that app is not necessary running well on mobile if width-reqests demand a higher minimal width or content is just too wide.

    The same is true for QtQuick Components or Kirigami, which are the equivalent for adaptive Qt apps.

    That said, yes, many new apps developed with these technologies work fine OOTB without the developer even knowing; and if they are too wide or tall, fixing that is usually rather simple and not a full rewrite/redesign.



  • 1peter10toLinux@lemmy.mlWhy did PinePhone fail?
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    Just 2ct’s on the banking thing (sorry if it sounds rude, but I just can’t hear it anymore):

    Just forget banking apps of you don’t want to stay on iOS or proper Google Android forever and ever and ever, even AOSP-based OSes struggle with that (a lot).

    Go to a bank that still has a proper website and allows some kind of hardware device for TAN (and tell them that this is why you are leaving/joining) - we need to show market demand for alternative solutions or else these will disappear completely over time.

    We also need to make regulators/politicians understand, that taking part in life must be possible without owning a device blessed by Google or Apple. We really need laws here.



  • 1peter10toLinux@lemmy.mlWhy did PinePhone fail?
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    Having had both a Pinebook and a Pinebook Pro and two PinePhones and a PinePhone Pro at some point in time (I co-hosted a PINE64 podcast for a bit), I don’t follow. If your point is that the PinePhone (Pro) have never been a great for everybody, I think the same is true of Pinebooks (Pro), they’re definitely are among the worst laptops I have ever had. Various just as cheap ARM-based Chromebooks (especially the ASUS C101p) I’ve had were/are just so much better.

    The PinePhone really helped with development of existing Linux on Mobile projects and caused the creation of some additional ones, as evidenced by the massive number of projects on https://pine64.org/documentation/PinePhone/Software/#software-releases.

    The Community Editions helped projects like UBports or postmarketOS financially. Some people even daily drive the device (despite being slow, I’ve found Sxmo and Sailfish OS to be acceptable, with Phosh coming in third).

    While I don’t recommend it anymore for anyone who wants to use GTK based stuff on it, I’d view it as a success (I don’t view the Pro as a success though, even though I believe they should have cancelled the A64-based PinePhone, not the Pro - a PP2 was IMHO overdue around 2023/2024). With better Quality Control, better relations between PineStore and the wider Community and a different default OS (putting the heavy Plasma Mobile on it was just nuts, and Manjaro definitely is not my favorite distro, to say the least) for the Beta edition, it could have been an even bigger success.

    Yes, it didn’t work for everybody, but as getting to a working laptop is so much easier than getting to a working phone (think of calls: the device has to manage to wake up at any moment (and fast), audio routing must be switched, echoes must be cancelled etc.) with the sky-high user expectations attached to phones (and the shitload of semi-hostile phone carriers across the world), I regard the PinePhone as quite an achievement.



  • That’s the age of the design. If you look at first use (usually a year later), and then widespread use beyond flagship chips for big cores (2+ years later), you’ll end up with different dates. Not every core ARM puts out ends up being used in a ton of chips across SoC vendors, as some fare better in the trade-of between transistors and real world performance/energy efficiency than others. A76 is definitely popular, if you look at SoC out there. The RK3588(s) GPU was announced in 2021 and shipped in 2022 first - so it’s relatively new, as the SoC is also not that old: RK3588s was introduced in early 2022, and these days it has decent enough Linux support to start building a Linux-first product with it.

    The issue for small companies like Liberux is that they

    1. can’t even get every chip on the market, as the Qualcomms of this world do not care about low volume operations (in addition to that, they need longer availability as they can’t afford to change chips at the pace bigger players do), and
    2. need to pick a chip that fits the power envelope of their design AND has decent enough mainline Linux support.

    That narrows things down very much, and leaves a quite narrow chip selection. Another start-up with the same goal, dawndrums, are designing around the same chip for that very same reason.

    If you are in doubt about how competent RK3588(s) is, look into the work that Lucie from MNT does - a lot of future product design is done on MNT hardware, these days powered by that very RK3588.






  • I think the matter is that:

    • all main UT contributors are aware that VoLTE is that many people need (and those who don’t need it yet are going to need it eventually),
    • the project has been working on it for years,
    • but sadly it’s difficult, because even if you get it to work, it’s usually per device, and even when VoLTE works on a device on one carrier, that does not mean it will work on every carrier.

    Also, being asked / or even encouraged again and again about one thing, can lead to burnout and will definitely not bring up happy feelings.


  • Just chiming in regarding apps (because https://linuxphoneapps.org/ is my hobby, where I still have to add a bunch of apps I assume are created by you – if that’s you, thanks for the apps!):

    no good Bitwarden client GoldWarden just crash and seems abandonned

    Have you tried https://codeberg.org/Chfkch/bitritter ?

    (I am a KeePass user, so my first hand experience is not comparable to real-world use)

    GS Connect works, but needs a tweak and UI is not good on small screen

    I’d suggest https://valent.andyholmes.ca/

    No lemmy apps

    Yeah, the state of Lemmy apps is not great. I’ve tried a bunch, and aside from the Lemmur fork (that seems abandonned), only Nimlem felt like it had potential.

    For the rest: I don’t really use Discord, YouTube and don’t have a Jellyfin instance, so … can’t suggest much here.


    Regarding Phosh and GNOME Shell Mobile:

    we need a way to bring up the OSK like on Phosh (holding the botto bar for a sec for example, maybe itcould be customizable too?)

    IIRC, double tapping the white bottom bar thing should do that. IMHO, like with gestures, I just would love to see more consistency between GNOME Shell Mobile and Phosh where possible.

    We NEED to press the unlock button after typing our code (would be neat to have the code automatically unlock the phone when we enter the same amount of characters as our passcode)

    I disagree here, IMHO, the iOS-style 6-digit thing on GNOME Mobile is worse (I usually have longer passcodes). Having to press the unlock button can even be seen as a security feature ;-)