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That preinstalled app on Mobian is the Telegram Desktop app.

No, there’s a lot more. Also, some Android apps work via Anbox. I have been blogging (https://linmob.net) about this since June and created a bunch of videos. If you have more specific questions, feel free to email me.

Or you check out my fork of that list that has even more apps: https://linmobapps.frama.io

Telegram Desktop works fine when tweaked as described on the Mobian wiki. For other apps may be https://LINMOBapps.frama.io can help you to get an idea.

I doubt we are going to see the RK3566 in PinePhones in 2021. That sounds more like a 2022 thing to me – unless getting proper mainline Linux support is going to land extraordinarily fast for that new SoC.

Knowing Pine64 I think they might provide upgrade boards unless it turns out that revising other aspects of the PinePhone hardware (e.g. screen, camera, battery) can be revised and improved cheaply so that this would not make sense economically.

Thanks. I will check that list again (which should be linked on LINMOBapps already), there seem to be some games (and maybe more) that I have not added to my list (mostly because I just don't care about games).

What I meant with "state" is stuff like: Does it crash? Is it "feature complete"? Most rating systems (including the one on MGLapps/LINMOBapps) seem to look at "does this fit the screen" more than these aspects, and it is virtually impossible to fit this all into one score.

Sorry if I misrepresented things.

After giving Purism some money for their "Fund Your App"-thingy today I decided to hit your donation button with a small, but recurring donation, because you deserve it for all your work – even if, sadly, my favourite distribution (DanctNIX Mobile) does not use your kernel and I am too lazy to change that on my end.

This is great news and I like that Purism are announcing this. They had previously announced (I can't find it on their blog unfortunately) a flatpak based App Store which is hopefully soon to come.

What I miss: What is the developer story here? Their team , even though it had 2 additions recently, is not very big with 9 people who focus on software. Also they aren't particularily open as to what already works and does not work, which – as the Librem 5 is not widely available yet, nor thoroughly reviewed (still waiting myself, having a PinePhone though) – is a problem.

If you want to have an overview about which apps already exist, I maintain a list at https://linmobapps.frama.io.

It's not very good at monitoring the actual state of the apps and does not look to good. If you have ideas on how to (or want to help) improve it, please get in touch!

CalDAV/CardDAV exists and works through GNOME Online Accounts for Nextcloud/OwnCloud, and there is an issue to support other solutions: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/-/issue...

From what I have heard the Volla people are working on Anbox support for their Sailfish OS port.

I wrote something on that a while ago: https://linmob.net/2020/08/15/anbox-on-the-pinephone.html

(I’ve since switched to ArchLinuxARM (and published several videos on how Anbox runs on t he PinePhone on YouTube) and won’t go back unless that breaks, so I don’t know what the current state is on Mobian.)

This is good advice. Seek treatment for your anxiety (preferably not only pharmaceutical) and join a group. Not being alone in this helps a lot, and from what you wrote it also is the only way to do more than you are already doing.

I think you massively underestimate the current situation. See “Past concentration“ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_at... I think it’s save to assume that the cycle of hotter and cooler periods may has already been severely altered. Sure, no one knows, but...

Well, it is pretty doom and gloom if you look at the numbers for the Arctic region and realize that we are on the trail that was considered the worst case scenario. Climate Change (at that time natural, less abrupt) contributed to the end of the Roman Empire, and while few of mankind may survive, billions are unlikely to.

Not changing behaviors and just hoping for magical, unproven technology is plain stupid in my view. We are going to need that investment in technology, but it‘s not the magic solution. Many ecosystems aren’t even fully understood, so we can’t really tell what will result of their imminent collapse.

Yes, I did not get my dock to work with my monitor without even plugging the dock into power.

In particular the author maintains a kernel branch that is very advanced. Only a few projects use it though, and I once asked for why that was and was told that many patches in that authors kernel branch were unlikely to ever be mainlined and thus would not fit the approach of the distribution.

I am not aware of any case of fire. So unless it caused such a bad fire, that everybody involved died, I think I would know about it having followed the PinePhone very closely, especially since June for my blog.

That said, as the fix seems to be rather trivial, distributions should just check and ship a new kernel if necessary.

There is initial support for Android apps via Anbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGpfleG8TMg

Also an Android ROM called GloDroid exists: https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/a368a023-ce44-44f0-a42d-...

Native app development depends on the OS, it differs whether you would develop for Ubuntu Touch, the GNOME on Mobile effort by Purism or for Plasma Mobile.

The app situation is not perfect, but there are some (not all available on every distribution): https://linmobapps.frama.io.

Specifically Pure Maps is available as a Flatpak and can be used in conjunction with OSM Scout Server for Offline Maps.

Also, Anbox support got almost usable in the PinePhone’s ArchLinuxARM distribution with working networking and a working keyboard just yesterday, so some Android apps are going to work. I expect Manjaro to ship at least the same level of Anbox support with their PinePhone CE.