Authentication-Results: mail-b.sr.ht; dkim=none Received: from mail.hallyn.com (mail.hallyn.com [178.63.66.53]) by mail-b.sr.ht (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2762411EF37 for <~mil/sxmo-devel@lists.sr.ht>; Fri, 5 Mar 2021 14:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.hallyn.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D2D00629; Fri, 5 Mar 2021 08:55:57 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 08:55:57 -0600 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: Miles Alan Cc: ~mil/sxmo-devel@lists.sr.ht Subject: Re: [Comments Needed] Is SXMO+pinephone Daily Driver? Message-ID: <20210305145557.GA12326@mail.hallyn.com> References: <87zgzjcopi.fsf@momi.ca> <57cfb42d-2148-49c0-9cc8-b30b7518620f@www.fastmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57cfb42d-2148-49c0-9cc8-b30b7518620f@www.fastmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 06:08:08PM -0600, Miles Alan wrote: > Nice to read everyone else's take too, I have some overlap in my > painpoints. While I would love the Pinephone to be my daily driver, I > admit its still currently an auxiliary phone for me. I know over time / > eventually the Pinephone & Sxmo will win out in terms of reliability > (as FOSS software always does), but its still maturing. > > Here's the main pain points for me (and things I should work on when I > get some free time): > > - CRUST: TBH seems like reliability is in constant flux on pmOS, > occasionally things freeze up. It's not difficult to fix these issues > with the initcall_debug kernel param but its a pain to constantly have > this inadvertently breaking. I'm tired of the instability. > > - Ramdisk: Phones are a perfect usecase for a ramdisk-style operation, to > always have a clean boot. 3GB is way more then sufficient for a suckless > stack. Alpine has diskless mode, but where is ramdisk for pmOS? Should > be that userdata & "phone firmware / software" is separate. > > - GPS & Maps: Foxtrotgps was a start which is now gone.. but yeah without > reliable walking navigation, how do i know where to walk. Should work > out of the box like it does on other phones.. Doing something suckless > around OSM tiles wouldn't be too hard I think, this looks like it gets > you 90% of the way there: https://nzjrs.github.io/osm-gps-map/ > > - Tethering: I'll probably take this up soon, but its something we need > out of the box on Sxmo. We should have some sort of menu for this. > > Miles So, we have good conversations going on in email and irc, do we want to set up a codimd or something to track the solutions ppl are looking into?