Pine64

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Can anybody suggest an enclosure for the Star64 SBC ? The only one they list as compatible on the Pine64 store is the acrylic enclosure but that won't work if one wants to use the M.2 PCI-E card which I do. I think the ROCKPro64 Premium Aluminum Casing will fit well enough by looking at how the ports would line up but it would be nice to get more info before ordering.

I they have had radio silence for months and the website hasn't changed much. I wonder if there is trouble.

It doesn't seem to have recovered since January

Happy to report that the Wifi on the Pinetab 2 now works. Still early days but I am using it for a few hours now and it works.

Details in the forum

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18575&pid=121457#pid121457

Right now, the European webshop of Pine64 says the PPP is out of stock along with the PinePhone Keyboard. If it won't come back in stock in a few weeks, I might order it from the US-based webshop.

Does anyone have experience on ordering the PPP from the US to an EU country? Roughly how much extra would I need to pay thanks to customs/delivery?

Its out of stock right now and the Quartz64 is a bit underpowered

Sharing how I use my Pinetab 2 as a daily device. Honestly, it's a bit of a pain. Since the same vulkan is not supported by gpu, even though I took it mainly for ebook and coding. Of all the browsers I tried, the most productive was qutebrowser, and I noticed that it is the only one where multithreading works properly. But at the maximum loaded sites the browser starts to lag a lot

Battery life I didn't really pay much attention to, but it feels like the tablet can last +/- 4-6 hours. The speakers in the tablet really suck, I haven't heard such a deafening sound in a long time. Keyboard turned out to be quite convenient in typing. Why did I choose sway? Well first of all I just know it, secondly it works much more responsive than the same plasma or gnome, but it's obvious why. What I didn't really like is the protective cover, which opens endlessly in the same backpack, but it is fixed with a regular extra case or a narrow space. Well and still no drivers for the wifi module and camera, which is a little sad, but I will look forward to it. I apologize for the crooked spelling, This is my first time trying to express in English.

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.

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.

I recently got my PineTime, and so far it's a very cool gadget, especially for the price. However, it is giving me every notification twice. Anyone know if there's a way to fix this? Currently running Infinitime 1.13.0 connected to an Android phone via GadgetBridge. It is only happening with some notifications... But so far I'm not seeing why some do and some don't duplicate.

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!

First impressions of the new Pinetab2 after one day

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?

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