@bart @kerzenrauch right, though it seems that Pine64 has gone for Manjaro, I don't really trust the Manjaro team, so I use PostmarketOS as my OS layer.

**Rev Herag** · May 11, 2021, 20:13

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**I'm Green Da Ba Dee** @Tel@tilde.zone · May 11, 2021, 20:13

May 11, 2021, 20:13

I'm Green Da Ba Dee @Tel@tilde.zone

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**Rev Herag** · May 11, 2021, 21:51

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**kerzenrauch** @kerzenrauch@awkward.company · May 11, 2021, 21:51

May 11, 2021, 21:51

kerzenrauch @kerzenrauch@awkward.company

if I got a pinephone, would it just work

I see y'all nerds doing all sorts of Linux-y projects with your fancy, having a grand ol' time, and NOT complaining about how much money you wasted

but I hate computers and don't want to install like, OpenBSD or whatever. I just want security and stuff, I just use apps, I'm probably not gonna do anything too interesting. Ideally I'd have it all working within 4 hours of receiving the package, y'know. F-Droid apps, maybe Signal, but again, pretty basic stuff. Would that... work?

boosts appreciated, I am soliciting all opinions

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 12, 2021, 00:40

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 12, 2021, 00:40

May 12, 2021, 00:40

Rev Herag @herag@dobbs.town

@kerzenrauch no, a #pinephone is still in the beta stages. It isn't quite ready for mainstream markets yet. But we nerds are the ones helping to develop this community built hardware platform.

Of all of them, keep your eye on #plasmamobile as the OS for the phone. That one is developing really fast.

I honestly give it a year before it is usable, then maybe one more year before it is usable by the non-nerd.

After that, I think it will be highly preferable to other phones.

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 11, 2021, 23:05

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 11, 2021, 23:05

May 11, 2021, 23:05

Rev Herag @herag@dobbs.town

@Nikolai_Kingsley I believe it was a single city in Germany. But the thing is, China is developing this OS specifically for their uses, which is in their best interests since Micro$oft has actively developed telemetry software specifically for the CIA and NSA and integrated it into their OS.

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 11, 2021, 09:40

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 11, 2021, 09:40

May 11, 2021, 09:40

Rev Herag @herag@dobbs.town

TIL that #China plans to remove #Microsoft from their govt computers by 2022. They are replacing #Windows with Unity OS(based on Deepin Linux) which has been developed internally in the govt.

Maybe the next step will be to make sire that no PC sold in stores will have Windows? I don't like monopolies, but better #Linux than Windows, right?

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 11, 2021, 01:33

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 11, 2021, 01:33

May 11, 2021, 01:33

Rev Herag @herag@dobbs.town

@r 100%

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 11, 2021, 01:33

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 11, 2021, 01:33

May 11, 2021, 01:33

Rev Herag @herag@dobbs.town

@ringo I am through the prologue almost. After that... only about 200 pages left. But I already used Pandoc on my md file and it is already looking better. Also, the only epubs I've found so far are like 150MB

Mine will be under 90KB and won't have a weird double table of contents and a 180 JPGs. 😃 Just words. Beautiful words.

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 10, 2021, 21:43

**Rev Herag** @herag@dobbs.town · May 10, 2021, 21:43

May 10, 2021, 21:43

Rev Herag @herag@dobbs.town

@cypnk damn, wired won't let me view their content unless I accept all of their cookies.

I wonder if there is a Python tool that scrapes the web and collates everything into basic HTML pages... I wonder if someone could write that. I wonder if I could write that...