PostmarketOS as semi daily driver
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So, its now about a week that i flashed PostmarketOS on a
Oneplus 6 i scavanged at work. How does it fare so far? I
would say pretty good (bar the few hickups that were more or
less my fault).
One thing i can not get reliably to work is voice calling.
Under SXMO i can establish a call but get no audio (and i
get the error message "We failed to establish call audio"),
under Phosh (yeah, i flashed the device multiple times...
but more on that later) i CAN get working calls but not
reliably. After spending a few days getting it to work and
getting pretty frustrated a thought crept into my mind and i
dug out the emails of the coworker that owned the device
previously, and yes, a similar behaviour was wat lead to the
device ending up in the "crap electronics" box in my office
in the first place. Hmm... ok, lets put "voice calling" a
few steps down on the priority ladder.
So, for the moment i ended up with a setup where i have my
old anroid phone with its crappy, battery for voice calling
and as camera device and the Oneplus 6 for... uhm...
everything else.
Additionaly i have also installed Gimp and Libreoffice on
the device because i had this neat little idea of accessing
it over a VNC session... which works surprisingly well.
Overall i observed that having a whole Linux distribution
running on my "Phone" leads to me using my Laptop less every
day. It is surprisingly conveniant (even with the tiny on
screen keyboard) to hack something together directly while
having the idea sitting on the couch or in the train instead
of my traditional approach.
The next step will be to use an old Raspberry Pi B sitting
somewhere in my drawer to use as a terminal for the phone. I
think the combination of a really slow Pi and a pretty
powerfull "mini workstation" caryable in your pocket is a
really nice thought.
