combine efi and boot into a single partition and switch to systemd-boot

it also has the OPDS plugin, so compatible Android readers can get books directly off it

I have the same experience. mounting the vault (sshfs) to showing contents is like 5 minutes. client ryzen 5600, no significant CPU activity.

I’m gonna be the problemXY guy and suggest you get a normal laptop, like a thinkpad T14 and friends, without a discrete GPU and get an EGPU setup; you can get a DIY rig in the $50-100 region, dependent on the interface, and you get a ton of benefits:

• you’re not limited to gaming laptops. you can get a laptop that’s portable, has a long battery life, and widely available on the 2nd hand market, is easy and cheap to upgrade, fix, repair, etc. everything gaming laptops fucking aren’t
• your options for GPUs rise dramatically, including reusing shit you already got laying around
• way, way more powerful than laptop discrete graphics with practically unlimited vertical upgrade options

it bothers me immensely that javascript backed Gnome that I can’t make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware is the default on underpowered mobile hardware, making Android and iOS level fluidity practically unattainable in the foreseeable future.

edit: I run pmOS on a SDM845 with 8 GB RAM and fast storage, tried em all on edge (gnome, plasma, phosh, plasma mobile) and it’s a 5 fps stuttering mess. that’s before I load something to said RAM, like a browser or (dog forbid) an electron app.

holup, you can’t send fucking images with a free account!? def no videos with that “limit”.

I’m already in the process of moving my corpo stuff to XMPP but this should precipitate a total exodus, both private and business shit.

thank you for an elaborate and in-depth review, enjoyed imagining owning it. although it has a lot of nice-to-haves (e-ink, keyboard, etc) at 10x (that’s TEN times) the price of my usual phones Imma forget about it as soon as I click “post”.

why would swiping away an app not kill it? why would you do that? leave it be until it’s done wtf

how much RAM you got? on my two A15 phones with 6 and 8 GB RAM nothing extraordinary happens in that regard, whereas my A15 4 GB RAM tablet can’t handle a lot of open apps and OOM kills some in the background.

edit: you seem to be trying to run android apps like desktop apps. that doesn’t work here. how things work is most apps are dormant when they don’t have focus and when they receive a push message e.g. “you have a new message”, their handler wakes up, fetches stuff from the server and updates local state (and then optionally displays the notification).

so you either need to install unified push and get apps that support it or have e.g. microG implement a subset of Play services so that GCM/FCM works with “normal” apps. the third option, what you may be doing, is having every app excluded from sleep and doing their own updates checking.

the example where you close an app and then go “why app closed” is unrelated.

gOS threat model is “everything everywhere all at once” - nation state actors et al - and from that standpoint, yeah, eOS and lOS and whoever else is lacking.

but the vast majority of users have a threat model that can be boiled down to two things:

1. a lost/stolen device doesn’t compromise me - the fucker can’t get at my stuff and/or impersonate me, and
2. free from apple’s/google’s reign - I control what stuff runs on my phone

both easily accomplished with lineageOS and derivatives running on a $50 phone. if you truly want to spend four digits annually on Newest & Best, you do you, I’m good.

my annoyance with his output aside, can we make it so that you can’t use “beautiful” on your own shit? others can say your stuff is, you can’t go “I created a beautiful xy”.

guess I’m fucking stupid, no understando how to do that. help please?

again, as with telegram, the shit I give zero fucks about (the groups, rooms, channels, whathaveyous) are encroaching on the things I give a ton of fucks about - the private, 1-on-1 comms. what are the odds this will be the only thing they’ll freemiumise in the long term?

anyone successfully managed to import chat history from one instance to another? heard it’s possible, don’t know of anyone actually doing it.

it’s not “forever”. it’s however long they don’t have any ideas to the contrary.

why it was implemented - so that executive #279 can show executive #114 that number go up. look how our engagement is rising! look at all them people downloading our app! when I took over from exec #317, number was this big, lookie now!

same way google made their search worse, so you have to search multiple times, thus upping the engagment, page views, etc. and then exec X goes to exec Y and say “look there’s a huge rise in searches where my bonus at!”