@carbonatedcaffeine@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-22 14:46 UTC
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@carbonatedcaffeine@social.treehouse.systems 2026-07-23 15:30
Day six of daily driving my PinePhone Pro – 23/07/2026 Yes, these logs are still going. I think I'm at the stage of transitioning between Android addict to mobile Linux sigma. Be sure to check the previous ones because I have written a LOT! Today is a bit of a break from the previous logs where today I will be sharing some of the important discussions that I’ve had with members of the community in the PinePhone chatroom. Aight, let’s get into it! So, one of the biggest things that have bothered me so far are the on-screen keyboards. In this case though I think that the thick screen protector is the cause of my issues. Phosh-osk is a nice keyboard but I wish the keys were slightly taller by default like in Sailfish. Immediately after trying the Sailfish keyboard I can type pretty quickly. Malit is okay too, but somehow the way haptics work on these mainline distos with Malit seems to slow down typing. The only way I can describe it is when I press on the keyboard it sends the trigger to feedbackd for haptic feedback, but if I press another character, the haptic feedback from the first key is still going. It doesn't start another trigger for haptic feedback it waits until the last one is finished, but you can still press another key and it shows up in the text input box. So it just ends up feeling really horrible. P.S: Community member Aaron mentioned this “Plasma switched to plasma-keyboard a while ago. It's very similar to maliit. With longpress copy/paste dialog being broken lately for qt stuff I use. It's a non starter to rely on plasma-keyboard/plasma mobile. I need a keyboard I can copy/paste with” Speaking of… I decided to try the Sailfish OS port by @piggz@fosstodon.org on my PinePhone Pro and had a really good experience. I ended up having a conversation about Sailfish with some community members about how locked down of a platform it seems to be. Sailfish seems like an open platform at first where all of the user interface libraries are open source. You can make apps using the library. The core apps are all open source. But the actual user interface we interact with is not open source at all. So you’re locked into their own operating system platform that is semi-open. I’ll be honest though, I was originally trying to justify it but I could not. I talked with kernel developer megi today about some of the issues I’ve been facing. I will make a quick log catcher script so that I can quickly snatch logs whenever I find myself away from the computer. I will attempt to catch the modem crashing issue next time. As for reliability today, I didn’t face any significant problems which was really nice. No modem or WiFi crashing shenanigans. I will leave you all off with a great discussion we had about the meaning of OpenSource work and the importance of licenses that protect peoples work. I had this conversation with community member UndeadLeech and abcde. Looking forward to publishing tomorrows log! See ya! #pine64 #pinephone #pinephonepro #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #sailfishos #phosh
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@the_wub@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 15:53
@carbonatedcaffeine@social.treehouse.systems I find that when either the mobile networking or Wifi modems fail in some way that it is best to shut down the PPPro completely and then start it up again. Using "Restart" from the logout menu does not seem to re-initialise the modems properly. I use only 4G and the mobile networking modem seems to disconnect and reconnect fairly often - only rarely does it disappear completely. I am still running mobian bookworm on mine from an SD card. #mobian #bookworm