Minimal phone gets back to basics with E Ink display and real keyboard

Re:Minimal phone gets back to basics with E Ink display and ... by Syonyk on Saturday March 02, 2024 @05:15PM (#39576237)

This is a big part of the reason I carry a flip phone. Instead of explaining that your "otherwise smartphone looking thing" can't run Apple or Android apps, I just have to whip out the flip phone, flip it open, flip it closed, and say "Sorry, my phone doesn't have apps."

... even though it's running Android 11 Go and I can sideload stuff, it doesn't matter because the number of apps that work on a 320x240 screen with keyboard input only are "roughly zero." Even if there's no good reason it shouldn't work, nobody tests or designs for that case, so there I am.

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Re:Minimal phone gets back to basics with E Ink display and ... by steelframe on Saturday March 02, 2024 @06:23PM (#39576746)

Yup, that works too. Not a bad idea!

By the way, the dimmers are working great. And I finally found BR30s that don't sing. It's amazing to me how many of them do. Have you tried Syncthing yet?

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Re:Minimal phone gets back to basics with E Ink display and ... by Syonyk on Sunday March 03, 2024 @01:53PM (#39583262)

Glad to hear it! The singing bulbs are a new, and quite unwelcome, development. It seems to relate to the number of filament supports.

I've not messed with Syncthing - I've been more trying to drive my life offline and spend less time messing with computers. I had a very "Work on computers to maintain the computers I find less-objectionable to use the internet a little" sort of circle going, and I decided to break out of it. So I'm x86/Qubes for now, and it's honestly a lot less work than the ARM stuff I was doing before.

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