I used a brand new email alias when I created an account at pine64.com to buy the PineTime. Before Saturday, I had only ever received an email at that address from Pine64, regarding that order. On Saturday, I received an email at that address trying to sell me a 1st Anniversary Commemorative set of Riftbound cards. I don’t even know what that is.

Do you think they leaked some customer data or are they selling it?

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TL;DR

Housekeeping
    New PineTalk episode is out 
    Quarterly Q&A on August 13, at 8:00PM CEST (UTC+2)
    Alternative payment methods available in Pine Store again
    The Pinebook Pro is available 
    PINE64 EU has launched 
Pinecil (V2)
    New RISC-V SoC 
    Adds BLE – opening potential for OTA updates & remote telemetry
    Automatic detection of tip resistance
    Compatible with existing peripherals and accessories, including cases
    Range of new, shorter 6.2ohm tips for higher power level 
    IronOS already ported 
    Counterfeit protection; future option for users to verify if their Pinecil V2 is legit
    Available very soon
Star64
    Congratulations to Gav for being the first to solve the riddle!
    Star64 is in final layout stages and we want to bring it to the market soon
    Uses StarFive JH7110 64bit CPU paired with BXE-2-32 GPU
    Available in 4 and 8GB RAM configuration
    Equipped with 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports (a variant with 1x GbE will be available later on for $5 less), PCIe, USB 3.0 as well as 2x USB 2.0 and GPIO
    Follows Quartz64 model-A pricing and footprint
PineSound
    PineBuds plastic molding is now complete and first test molds underway
    Hoping to being PineBuds to the market as soon as possible – maybe in October
    Similarly to the Pinecil and PineTime, PineBuds have been built to deliver a great out-of-the-box experience for everyone, while also offering depth for tinkerers and those who wish to hack
QuartzPro64 & Quartz64
    QuartzPro64 dev units started shipping; we’re still accepting coupon requests from developers
    Quartz64 receives DietPi support; now supported by Armbian, Manjaro, DietPi as well as giving option to run Arch Linux and NetBSD
    Pillow submitted patches enabling PCIe and analog audio, a fix for fast SD cards has been accepted upstream, and patches enabling JPEG encoder have been merged
PineTime
    Infinitime 1.10 released with many changes & improvements under the hood
    It is now possible to dismiss notifications
    Tweaks to display, colour and gamma settings – making things look better
    InfiniSim new features include animations & allows screen capture in GIF format
    Ongoing work to improve memory situation by leveraging additional 4MB of internal flash
    InfiniTime has 584 forks

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Not to start a long depressing discussion, that won't get things any better for anyone, and are really out of most readers control, but this is really sad to read.

I do hope the pinephone pro to be a success, though it's not quite there yet, and controversy as this doesn't really help. Less devs won't help at all either, :(

at r/PINE64official

Hello!

I purchased a PinePhone UBPorts version when it was first available a while ago, but I didn't have the time to play with it then. I just turned it on and updated the Ubuntu Touch, and I am surprised that the most recent update in the Stable branch is from the end of 2020. I see that there have been more recent releases of Ubuntu Touch for other devices, but they do state the following:

The Pine64 PinePhone and PineTab are updated independently of the rest of these devices. The stable channel for the PinePhone and PineTab will not receive an update labeled "OTA-23".

This website confirms that latest stable release of Ubuntu Touch for the PinePhone is from 2020.

I couldn't find any statements on this, but I suppose that UBPorts is no longer interested in supporting the PinePhone - or atleast it is not one of their priorities.

I am trying to figure out what to do with this phone now. The wiki has a wide selection of distros here, but doesn't give much info about them. Seems like it would take some effort to sift through each one of them. Do any of you use any of these and can recommend one? Is it even worth to invest the time to install one of these at the moment - or are all of the projects equally stale?

First impressions of the new Pinetab2 after one day

Do you have any tps, tricks and other thing to share with me on this device ?

I can't wait to get my hand on this device!

I find that the brick is so heavy and the connection point doesn't fit very snug, and the power plug falls out quite easily. Anyone else experience this?

I was wondering if there is support for active styluses on the pinetab. I’m looking for an arm linux tablet with support for styluses for taking notes, watching videos and browsing the internet. Any suggestion would be great!

There is no point to this post I'm just excited and have no one to tell lol.

!pinetime@lemmy.world

Reddit has a small pinetime community, let's make it bigger on here!

So I got my pinetab2 a few weeks ago. I am going to leave aside for a moment the absolute hell it was to get this thing. How it arrived broken and how I had to argue with support for a week to get a replacement. Now that I have it and have been playing around I must say it's sorta decent.

1. If you can't stand the thought of using a usb wifi dongle use ubuntu touch. Ubuntu touch has the ability to enable the internal wifi and in my testing it was stable so if you just can't stomach the idea of a dongle that is your best bet.

2. If you need bluetooth you are SOL at the moment

3. if you want to watch DRM protected streams it technically dooable but not advisable. this is because to do it you need to install widevine and in my experience it takes like 5 hours to install and I never got to install it because I didn't hit yes to a prompt in time and so I wasted like 5 hours.

So what is this tablet like to use on a day to day basis. First Issue is that this tablet has no sleep or standby mode yet. All you can do is turn the screen off. needless to say this thing is a battery killer at the moment. It gets decent battery life but with no standby you can't make it through a day with it.

The keyboard seems nice until you try to use it. I don't know why but I run into input lag with the keyboard. sometimes it misses characters when I type. When it is working it's a decent keyboard overall. However it's been a bit flaky for me.

The onscreen keyboard is actually fine except it doesn't yet really work for desktop applications. You need to use the dock button to get the keyboard to pull up with desktop applications. For some strange reason desktop applications cannot receive numerals or the lower character from any key. It's as if you are holding down shift all the time so good luck putting in a password or tying a url with no numbers and no "." . Also sometimes this dock button because unresponsive and you just can't get the keyboard to pull up no matter how much you mash the thing.

Performance is both good and terrible surprisingly. I have the 8 GB RAM model and applications can take a while to open. Video playback will stutter at times. Even old android tablets with just 2GB of ram seem to perform better. This doesn't really make sense so I assume there is still performance tuning that needs to be done. Ubuntu Touch runs much better on this device.

My conclusion on this is that at the moment everything has it's issues. Things work great at times but it's very rough around the edges. You get better results if you use it more like a laptop than a tablet. However the battery life and no sleep is really annoying at the moment.

there is just a few things that are keeping me from using this as a daily driver tablet. I think they could be fixed in relatively short order so I have high hopes of having a really cool device in the coming months. I say if you have the money pick one up and even if it doesn't work for you now you will have it for when the software has more polish.

Hello all,

I just realize my PineTime connector have some quality problem and gets wearied.

Is anyone having same problem? Can I fix it?

I purchased a PBP not long ago to replace my Acer Aspire 5742Z (~2010). Thought to share my use case and impressions to give others who are still on the fence after all these years a sense of how it holds up in 2023.

Use case: Email, web-browsing, videos, text-editing.

Setup: I am using the pre-installed GNU/Linux distro (Manjaro) but have swapped the Plasma DE for X Display Manager (XDM) and the Calm Window Manager (cwm). I've also gutted a few of the systemd services like resolved, homed, firewalld, etc. I like DEs and feel like this machine would do better with a lighter environment. (It does!)

Opinion: I was worried coming over from x86 that lots of things I use would not be available with aarch64. There are definitely warez out there that won't easily port over, but I haven't run into any road blocks yet.

What I notice the most is that the PBP does exhibit more screen tearing than the 2010 Acer. Further, even though it has 3x the cores and another GB of RAM, the Acer still felt more performant with its higher clock speeds. (But not by much)

Both machines bog down while loading demanding web pages like Youtube and the full-fledged web browser experience can be irritating on certain websites. Most pages load quickly and I don't even notice this is a lowpower device. (Like Lemmy for example)

If you can avoid using a web-browser for everything, then it's quite a nice device. (Email client instead of gmail.com, mpv instead of youtube.com, for example)

Then for the actual device, I like the screen it's great, keyboard is 'OK' and the trackpad is 'not terrible.' Each one of these things is better than the Acer and it weighs a few pounds less too.

Finally, the battery life destroys the 2010 Acer. I'll get 6-8 hours of work time out of it.

Really, there aren't many alternatives for an ARM laptop and zero at this price point. If an ARM laptop interests you, try the PBP.

Has anyone had any luck building a NAS with a PCIE adapter giving 4 SATA interfaces? I want to move away from my Synology box in favor of the Pine64 solution, but the guides I'm reading all talk about a dual-PCIE-SATA card.

I've heard software RAID is the way to go. My initial plan is 4x8TB with RAID 5. That's what I'm using in my Synology currently.

Still a lot of unfinished styling/animations, and several apps can't yet utilize the OSK, but so far I'm liking this GNOME far better than vanilla on the PT2. Installed on Danctnix via gnome-mobile-shell from the AUR.

I bought a Pinephone out of curiosity and while it has been fun to play with, I am looking to repurpose it to something else. Has anyone found a good use for it, maybe incorporated into a smart home setup or something along those lines?