Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi

Re:Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its camera... by fsflover on Monday August 17, 2020 @11:35AM (#24188225)

You cannot easily brick your phone. You just use dd to write any image to the microSD and the phone just boots from it. Also see here concerning the internal memory: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9444

Many people like Mobian. It has a very nice UI (Purism's Phosh) and the full GNU/Linux under the hood.

I personally would recommend to try Sxmo: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9913. It is unbelievably fast, capable and has a cool geeky UI.

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Re:Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its camera... by lioeters on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @07:52AM (#24197576)

Sxmo ("Simple X Mobile") looks great.

> Sxmo, or Simple X Mobile, is a collection of simple and suckless X programs and scripts used together to create a fully functional mobile UI adhering to the Unix philosophy for the Pinephone.

https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/

It reminds me of working with text-based user interface in the terminal, with intuitive window manager. I love it!

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Re:Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its camera... by qchris on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:24PM (#24188717)

Fwiw, I've tried UBports, pmOS, and Mobian on mine, and Mobian is definitely my favorite and the one I'm sticking with for now. And as you've said, installation is just like most other computers/SBCs, by flashing the uSD card.

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