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- <!DOCTYPE html><head><meta charset="utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" /><meta name="keywords" content="GNU, Emacs, Libre Software, Hurd, Guile, Guix" /><meta name="description" content="GNUcode.me is a website focusing on libre software projects, especially the GNU project." /><link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="GNUcode.me -- Feed" href="/feed.xml" /><a rel="me" href="https://fosstodon.org/@thegnuguy"></a><link type="text/css" href="css/footer.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><link type="text/css" href="css/header.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><link type="text/css" href="css/main.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><title>The PinePhone Works — GNUcode.me</title></head><body><header><nav><ul><li><a href="index.html">GNUcode.me</a></li><li><a href="services.html">Services</a></li><li><a href="about.html">About</a></li><li><a href="business-ideas.html">Business-ideas</a></li></ul></nav></header><h1>The PinePhone Works</h1><main><section class="basic-section-padding"><article><h3>by Joshua Branson — February 01, 2022</h3><div><p>I have had my PinePhone for about three months now, and it has been a fairly
- pleasant experience. I decided to use Mobian and Purism’s gnome shell “phosh”,
- which seems to be the most popular interface for the PinePhone. It is nice to
- see that I can apply updates almost daily. I am glad that the Mobian devs are
- working hard to diligently update the phone’s software.</p><p>I am using Tello and <a href="https://jmp.chat">jmp.chat</a> as my service providers. Tello is a traditional
- cellular provider, and jmp.chat is a free software cellular provider using XMPP.
- My Tello number works pretty much anywhere, and jmp.chat works whenever I have
- wifi. Tello costs me $8 per month (no data plan), and jmp.chat costs me $3 per
- month. An $11 bill per month with two numbers is not so bad!</p><p>The default texting application “chatty”, works really well (also developed by
- Purism). It will crash once every three weeks or so, but that’s not that bad. It
- shows me my SMS messages and my JMP.chat XMPP messages. I personally have not
- tried to switch to another SMS/XMPP application, because I do not believe there
- is any other application that is as well polished as chatty. However, I am
- running into the annoying issue, that my JMP.chat number is getting a ton of
- span from Russian bots. And it seems that chatty does not support blocking
- numbers. So I have to use another program to block random XMPP accounts.</p><p>I am noticing some weird (and to be expected) issues with the PinePhone. Namely,
- the wifi is a bit wonky. Sometimes I have to reboot to get the wifi to work.
- Luckily, there is some work on reverse engineering the wifi linux module. I am
- not currently using that kernel module, but it is out there in the wild.</p><p>The battery does not seem to last as long as I would expect. If I am browsing
- the internet, then I can almost see the internet drain as I use the phone. I am
- also finding out that I do not receive SMS messages that are sent when my phone
- is off. That is <em>mildly</em> annoying.</p><p>But hey, the phone works! If work did not require me to have a phone, then I
- would NOT have one. BUT I am greatful that I do not have to suffer in silence
- and use Android or a dumb phone. So if you want a “smart/dumb phone”, and you
- are ok with the occassional instability, then the PinePhone might be for you!</p></div></article></section></main><footer><p>© 2020 Joshua Branson. The text on this site is free culture under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International license.</p><p>This website is build with Haunt, a static site generator written in Guile Scheme. Source code is <a href="https://notabug.org/jbranso/gnucode.me">available.</a></p><p>The color theme of this website is based off of the famous <a href="#3f3f3f" target="_blank">zenburn</a> theme.</p></footer></body>
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