Dr David Clubb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @davidoclubb@toot.wales

#PinePhone: The $149 Smartphone That Could Bring The Linux Mobile Ecosystem to Life

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e77y/the-dollar149-smartphone-that-could-bring-the-linux-mobile-ecosystem-to-life

Ok, so Ive had my #PineBook Pro for almost a week now, and I'll be completely honest, it's fucking #brilliant!

While there are definitely shortcomings, I can see myself using this as my daily driver for the foreseeable future. Here are the good and bad points I've come up with so far.

The Good:

- Screen #resolution and sharpness is awesome
- #Keyboard has excellent travel and key rebound, and practically no deck flex
- #Charging over USB-C makes for amazing #versatility. I can charge it with my Phone Battery Bank
- The outer shell is strong and is beautifully simple
- It's so slim and small, it fits in the Tablet pocket of my backpack
- The passive cooling never makes the base too hot to touch
- It's more than #powerful enough to write #documents and #spreadsheets on
- #Video in #Firefox is fine, but anything over 480p starts dropping frames
- Writing documents will only sip at the #battery, making it last for hours upon hours
- #Syncing with the #PinePhone via #KDE Connect works pretty well

The Bad:

- The plastic surround of the screen feels loose and bends easily
- The plastic deck heats up quickly just from body heat, and makes your hands feel sweaty
- The keyboard isn't exactly aligned, and a couple of the arrow keys catch on the deck, making it feel like the keys are stuck
- The #webcam has no software controls, and is very dark. If you increase the brightness, or shine a light on your subject, it works, but saturation is far too low. Driver issue maybe?
- Video in Firefox can drain the battery very quickly
- #Graphics #corruption can get quite annoying on the default #Manjaro #ARM #KDE edition, be sure to install #mesa-git, but it only marginally improves the situation

Conclusion:

If you're #writing a ton, like scripts; articles; reviews; websites etc, it is the perfect portable #tool, with a comfortable keyboard, and all the utils you need to get going.

If you're writing web #code like HTML and CSS, it would also work out really well as a tool to take with you to clients, or on the road.


This is great way to get your thoughts out and into the digital realm. It might be a great utility for accessing #Social #Media, Chat protocols like #XMPP and #Matrix, or just doing online tasks.

For its price, it has already proven its worth to me, I do NOT regret my purchase. #PineTime is on the way! w00t!

🇺🇸 is one of Wales' top export markets. Join @WalesinNA@twitter.com for a virtual trade mission to explore the market, make new contacts and get one-to-one support from their in-market representatives.

Deadline for application is 12 June 👇

https://businesswales.gov.wales/export/export-events/overseas-events/virtual-export-market-visit-usa-east-coast

#Brexit #fools
https://reut.rs/3cwjt7x

I feel incredibly blessed that Pixelfed has grown so much over the past year.

Total users, posts and active users have doubled, and our project is among the top 5 most popular.

Though we haven’t had our viral moment like Mastodon or PeerTube, I’m confident that when we do, we’ll be ready.

I look forward to the next 3 years and beyond! 😁 #pixelfed #activityPub #Fediverse

“How Apple screwed Facebook - Apple’s iOS 14.5 update has triggered an unstoppable collapse in Facebook’s ability to collect user data”

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-ios14-facebook

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got close to this cat and it was definitely a cryptid

Welsh actor Rhys Ifans backs bid to reopen village pub as clock counts down. https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-actor-rhys-ifans-backs-bid-to-reopen-village-pub-as-clock-counts-down/

Gair y Dydd: cefnfor https://geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?cefnfor – ar Ddiwrnod Cefnforoedd y Byd y Cenhedloedd Unedig. #Cymraeg

Word of the Day: cefnfor 'an ocean': https://geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?cefnfor – on United Nations World Oceans Day (from cefn (in the sense of 'mid-, middle') + môr 'sea', cf. cefn gweilgi: 'mid-ocean') #Welsh

This is really cool. I hope it reaches great success. Would quite like an accurate #gàidhlig Speech to Text! Actually have Gàidhlig subs available to read what is being said on TBh 😍 imagine!

https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/news/speech-recognition-system-scottish-gaelic

Climate policy is an integral part in achieving a zero-carbon society, according to this analysis from Carbon Brief.

Let's keep pushing!!

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-g7-climate-laws-cut-emissions-by-1-3bn-tonnes-in-2019

🇬🇧Just as intelligence agencies distributed backdoored cipher machines via Crypto-AG, law enforcement agencies have now circulated backdoored "AN0M" smartphones. Again: Never trust centralized, closed-source products! #encryption

#Reddit is down, so why not take a look at its Fediverse alternative @LemmyDev

https://join-lemmy.org

The flagship instance is at https://lemmy.ml

#RedditDown

Plasma 5.22 is here! KDE's desktop is more reliable, adaptable and fun than ever before. Revel in the adaptive transparency, find stuff easily with the global menu search and reach windows faster with the enhanced task manager features.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.22.0/

Envisioning Wat’s Dyke – A Project Unfolds

#history #archaeology #Wales

https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/envisioning-wats-dyke-a-project-unfolds/

School trips to UK from EU could halve as Brexit hits cultural exchanges - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jun/04/school-trips-to-uk-from-eu-could-halve-brexit-hits-cultural-exchanges #brexit continues to trash UK economy and global reputation...