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The whole story has killed any interest I had in their products. I was interested in buying a Pinebook and Pinephone, but not anymore.

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Me too, I was hoping to get a Linux phone at a price that match the current lack of polish (for me the pinephone had that price) but Linux means community and diversity for other OS'es to me. So if they don't work with the community, then half the value of the phone disappears...

I will now consider buying second hand phone with postmarketOS support. It means I'll have to accept proprietary hardware but, as it will be second hand, it means I'll be more in line with my eco-environemental-whatever-half-baked principles.

Nobody cares, I just wanted to illustrate what are the reasons I would like to buy a Pine64 and how those reasons revolves around some basic principles and trade off's.

You could also get a second-hand PinePhone (just buy postmarketOS CE or later to avoid bad hardware bugs).

Regarding other postmarketOS supported devices, I quite like the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 and the OnePlus 6 - but be aware that bootloader unlock on the Xiaomi is a bit painful and charging on the OnePlus 6 is really slow (although that might have been fixed lately/be fixed soon).

I had been looking at an electronic soldering iron they had produced. Not sure how I feel now.

The Pinecil works really great. Have been using it for a while now. The non-linux products from pine64 are pretty good.

It's an excellent soldering iron, hardware wise. Lightweight, heats up extremely fast, holds up heat very well. Never tried a custom firmware, but had no need either.

The pinecil is very good.

Although the firmware mine came with had an issue and I did have to update it, I now prefer it to my Hakko.

Their single board computers and soldering irons are very cool

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