Running Element in a browser on your PinePhone, really? I wonder why that is worth reporting, of course it works. If the cameras work, such applications will work.
Also I wonder why that post mentions you have to install Element on a webserver yourself, I’m pretty sure you can just use pre-hosted instances like https://app.element.io
Quick promotion of !postmarketos@lemmy.ml 😉
Any device in the community category on the list of supported devices on the postmarketOS wiki has close-to mainline support and will thus support basically anything you want to do with it.
It’s mainly not our target really. We focus on mobile devices mainly, with the extra of also trying to support SBC’s and even smart TV’s if it comes to it (we don’t currently have a port for a smart TV but we would accept it if someone makes it). For laptops like ChromeBooks it’s better to get straight up Alpine Linux running on it.
what just looks like desktop GNOME
That picture is actually Weston, which is basically the first interface anybody should try when they just ported the phone. It’s just used as a demo, it’s not actually usable really.
It seems the Find 7a is using the downstream kernel still (rather than mainline), which means it has no DRM support and can thus not run DE’s like GNOME, Phosh, Plasma Mobile, etc. You will be stuck to interfaces like Weston, XFCE4, etc. So no, if you boot pmOS on it you won’t be able to use it like an actual phone. Besides, it seems modem support is missing so you wouldn’t be able to call or be called.
Finally, I have TWRP installed on that phone and I really like it, so am I able to still have it as the default recovery image?
Sure you can, we don’t touch the recovery. It’s however not really useful for non-Android OS’s.
so I’m wondering if anyone has had any experience booting it on the 7.
It seems there isn’t a device port for it so no I don’t think anybody tried it yet (or they failed, who knows). You can give it a shot porting yourself, we’d love to help you out on our Matrix channel!
And you can try it on postmarketOS too! 😁
/me sneaks in link to !postmarketos@lemmy.ml
You can already try it out! Use this version of Element and register an account on https://dendrite.matrix.org. That Element version is built straight from the PR adding support for Spaces to Element. It hasn’t been merged yet but you can test it out that way.
Make sure to enables spaces from the “Lab” setting.
Not the OS, but one of. We had our own community edition (the postmarketOS CE PinePhone) and since then there have been editions for Manjaro, Mobian and Plasma Mobile (and before us Ubuntu Touch).
Ubuntu Touch is it’s own beast. It’s Linux, but really closer to Android in how it works than a regular Linux distribution. It has a read-only filesystem and you install applications using it’s own Click format.
postmarketOS however is a true “regular” Linux distribution. The whole system can be written to, you have root rights by default and you update your system and install applications using a package manager (apk
, don’t confuse it with Android’s apk format!).
!postmarketos@lemmy.ml , please join and help it make more awesome and bigger than the Reddit one 😉 …
@onlooker@lemmy.ml is right, monitors of comparable size are way pricier than TV’s. If you want something big, you get a TV.
No, because Telegram has a centralized and proprietary backend and shouldn’t be used.