used SDM845 or similar phone (Poco F1, Oneplus 6/6T, etc). it should be attainable in the $50-100 region. blazing fast, good features, you can get at the battery with some finagling and thus replace it, etc.

not only does it have support for lineageOS, practically every Linux (mobian, postmarket, ubuntu touch) supports it. get the 8 GB version. when you’re done using it after a few years, it can be a great home server!

if you come up short, I’d suggest going to the lineageOS site, devices page, and filter for latest version (22.2 currently). that should give you all devices with current support. then you can see what you got available locally for cheap.

another resource to research brands and unlock options, the unlock wall of shame.

sorry, I’m off-topic here… are there free alternatives to this paid (jmp.chat) service?

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well, disabling ModemManager was a mistake, because that prevents you from using mmcli.

with it, you can issue mmcli --modem=0 --set-power-state-off or mmcli --modem=0 --disable. nope, the latter puts it in a low-power state.

there’s also --inhibit which seems to turn off the modem completely, it’s gone from mmcli. nope, that just removes it from the manager, it’s still running.

will keep experimenting as to what each does.

forgive my ignorance but I always thought calyxOS was lineageOS + microG, are there things in there I missed?

unless you’re moving to the middle of the desert, leave “the computer” (desktop? glass case? server rack? windows? linux? what?) behind and just bring the drives, then buy the other stuff locally.

what do I do with the thing, apply and wipe, scrub, dunk?

no idea about that but I was forced to use them for a short while and shan’t be returning. there were issues with the deployment UI, support sucked, they wanted us to prepay for like a year and I believe they were using an inferior virtualization stack (at the time at least) can’t remember details. the prices weren’t good, at all, so unless something changed in the last year or two, keep looking.

thank you for an elaborate and in-depth review, enjoyed imagining owning it. although it has a lot of nice-to-haves (e-ink, keyboard, etc) at 10x (that’s TEN times) the price of my usual phones Imma forget about it as soon as I click “post”.

“rebooting” is not a thing ova here. yeah, you can accomplish that but that’s not what you want. utilising something like InputRemapper + e.g. Plasma shortcuts, you can launch a big-picture UI, like steam or plama-bigscreen when it’s ready or somesuch, when you press a key combo on the controller or mouse or keyboard or any combination thereof.

it’s using mpv under the hood, so I guess it should be able to play audio headless. I’m using allcast to cast to it and control it.

I’m using macast as a media renderer, for video and audio. don’t know if there’s a docker container for it.

because they used to be special. “I run linux”, matrix text on boot, typing shit in the terminal, “I’m in”, awe-inspiring shit to an onlooker…

but nowadays, anyone can run ubuntu or mint or whatevs and our hero ain’t special no more. so here comes the ultimate delimiter.

looks easy enough, will try, thank you.

tbh, looked at the thing some while back and noped out when I saw “java” in there; absolutely irrational, I know - just can’t stand the thing. cool that there’s an alternative.

mint uses X11 which should be considered legacy at this point. wayland (Gnome, Plasma) has all the touch and dock/undock and rotate and pen etc goodies. try it out from a liveUSB and decide for yourself.

this one, OP. no need to introduce the horror that’s a:

• hosted app (why?!)
• client app is electron crapware
• the client app doesn’t even have full functionality, you have to use the web UI for some tasks

edit: I’m obviously speaking about the bitwarden/vaultwarden horror. keepassXC is none of them things.

I used enpass for years and was a happy user. one day it prompted me for some re-authentication bullshit security theater. although in that instant it was an easy task, took me all of 10 seconds, it demonstrated a scary amount of power they had as I couldn’t bypass it and access my data. from that point on, its days were numbered.

the second issue is the export functionality that was seriously lacking and I had to resort to 3rd party converter tools to convert it to keepassXC; no way that flew by their QC, it had to be intentional.

it’s by design, those are harassment tactics. there is no way that you can add a correspondent as “safe” and someone you want to receive comms from, even if you’ve communicated before and/or you have them in your address book. they want you to use gmail, not email.

you’re fine using lineageOS with microG and utilising it for cloud messaging, i.e. notifications. the actual content of the notfication doesn’t go through google (or apple), a push message just signals the telegram client there’s activity. then the telegram client wakes up, fetches the message from telegram servers, constructs the notification in-app and then displays it.

google doesn’t have access to the contents of it, but harvests lotsa metadata that microG (as opposed to full-featured play store services) somewhat ameliorates.

having said that, you should make every effort to ditch telegram as well, for a buncha reasons.

you’re running way too old a distro for what you want. debian 12 has its merits as a server, you install it and leave it be and it just works.

what you want - fluidity with power management, dock/undock, etc - although achievable with tweaking this and that isn’t being worked on, not on X, not on debian 12, so it’s not like those things will eventually get there. so you need a semi-modern distro, like ubuntu or fedora or even trixie.

wayland isn’t new, it’s default on a lot of distros since 2021 or so, so you can be sure that your use case was previosly met and solved. costs you nothing to boot e.g. F42 off a USB and try it out (has to be 42 as earlier live sessions default to X11). if you have lots of RAM, add the rd.live.ram switch so it copies the image to RAM and everything is super-snappy for testing and it doesn’t touch your SSD.