Pinephone is getting more stable. Typing from one now with PostMarketOS. Waydroid android app emulation works. Email works. SMS / calls work. Open source maps work. Time investment required but definitely nerd-friendly and runs android & linux simultaneously. Once you set it up make a backup and you're set.
Daily drive the a311d and it's solid. Nothing I wish I could do compute wise with it at the moment that I can't. The RK3588 will be a nice bump in performance though :)
FWIW I was all in on apple until I bought a brand new top of the line MBP in 2016, only to have it crap out on me a couple years later due to flexgate. Apple wanted me to pay something like $800 for a new screen due to their design flaws on a super small cable.
Clearly I'm biased, but the price for a new top of the line MNT laptop isn't bad comparatively at ~1,500 USD. Assuming you can wait a half a year to get one... On the keyboard comment, I have to say I find it quite easy to use. The only real difference is the split space bar, alt, and ctrl keys.
Would love to see a followup review on your channel whenever they get around to releasing the MNT Reform Next which should be much slimmer and faster. To your credit though, it's definitely for people who are willing to tinker. Simple things you'd expect to work like plugging in an external monitor don't work out of the box.
Typing this from an MNT Reform with a CM4 chip in it. Don't have a Pocket Reform yet, but just want to chime in and say that I love what the MNT team is doing.
With the new rk3588 SOM it's possible to have 8 cores and 32 gigs of RAM can't recommend their devices enough. Have a second Reform with an LS1028A.
Deeply want them to continue to succeed. So refreshing to have a device that is fully transparent and upgrade-able over time.
Waiting for their new server rack mounted form factor to come out so I can put my old SOMs to use in my homelab.
Location: Chicago, IL
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Fair warning, setting up and managing a DSLAM is an undertaking, and additionally everyone that wanted to use it would need a compatible modem as well.
Source: I've setup and managed two such environments back in the day at an ISP, and also a couple of older VDSL setups in apartment blocks. It's a good way of getting some extra mileage out of old wiring but its expensive, creates another SPOF, and requires at least some knowledge. It can also be a giant PITA to troubleshoot, and all your wiring becomes far more precious when it comes to water/damp and interference.
Thank you! Maybe it will work. I could be explaining wrong. Maybe it’s not because of cat 5, all I know is when I asked google fiber about a better connection they said the building’s wiring only supported 100 megaBITs.
