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Author here. The blog post is not meant as a discouragement, but as a report. It does not help anyone if people get a PinePhone (or other Linux Phone) with the expectation that it's just going to work like their big-platform-high-volume smartphone, and then cry a river because mobile Linux is not as refined.

Maybe I should have highlighted the personal success stories I have had more (contributing to mobile-config-firefox, evaluating tons of apps, creating issues and seeing them getting fixed) - but I really don't like bragging.

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You have way more patience than the average people making comment here, at least someone's trying I think.

I have one as a backup in case I get robbed or something. It's nice for me to know the state of things.

Maybe you should make this clearer to your readers?

I trust my regular followers (blog, videos, social media) to somewhat know my tone by now (I've been writing over a hundred blog posts over the past two years), and it’s them I wrote this for.

I don’t really know how to make it clearer in the limited time I can justify for low-content-value posts like this – and I did not intend for this to land on the hn front page. My best idea is that I could add a caveat box is reading "Hey, i don't like to brag, it's been fun, so read it it more positively than it's written, but don't ignore the negatives fully.", but that would be super weird.

I have a day job that I have to attend now, so I can really only change anything once the attention has moved on to something different.

Or just allow and trust the readers to make their own conclusions.

I swear, HN readers bitch about the content silos on Web 2.0, but throw anyone still writing on their own blog onto a spit and crank up the heat.

Who really cares if the intent is never to buy a PinePhone, it is his freaking blog.

Nobody's complaining about the author or blog here? If anything, I'm quite grateful to them for documenting all the warts, and making it really clear that the PinePhone is not an option for us casuals in the process.

> Or just allow and trust the readers to make their own conclusions.

Cant do that religions exists where people believe in God without any evidence, and people exist who believe in Govt & democracy, so that says it all really.

Sort of an implicit assumption when publishing a literary work is that the readers can actually read.

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