Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 08:55:57 -0600
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: Miles Alan <m@milesalan.com>
Cc: ~mil/sxmo-devel@lists.sr.ht
Subject: Re: [Comments Needed] Is SXMO+pinephone Daily Driver?
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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?