I only use alacritty on the phone due to the superior touch support.
Touch support might be added to kitty later if someone is willing to
patch it. See: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/5432
After having to use vagrant again after a while I've decided that it's
better to simply "do things the right way" the first time with the
declarative nature of Nix instead of trying to make install scripts
work.
Notably, the feedback loop between provisioning Vagrant boxes was
lacking compared to rebuilding on NixOS, and the virtual machine
frequently had to be destroyed and provisioned all over again, versus
having already built derivations with Nix.
Been running this for a few days now and it seems to make the phone
significantly slower under load but reduces the probability of hanging
and crashing by quite a bit.
Plan to try this later with maximum CPU frequency to see if high CPU
frequency still crashes the PinePhone.
- mpv: No hardware acceleration makes it useless under phosh
- thunar: Viewport breaks when using non-English UI
- ncmpcpp: Phone screen is too small to show display
- papers: Gets cut off due to the 200% zoom and 1440x720 resolution
- geary: Not interested in storing emails on the phone
Seems to be a bit more unstable but the performance difference is huge
enough that I'd rather run this than the minimum cpu frequency.
Battery life seems to be okay with around 3 hours of on-screen time and
low brightness. The massive increase in performance means that there's
much less time spent waiting for the phone, so the decrease in on-screen
time should be offset by how long you have to keep the phone on waiting
for it.
This fixes an issue where previously homeManagerModules would be an
unknown flake output. Note that this change is a part of Nix 2.22.3
but not Nix 2.23.3.
This is necessary since the boot process is handled by mobile-nixos.
Note that the implementation here should allow us to move aarch64
differences out of the flake.nix and simplify nixosConfigurations
again long-term.
Currently there are too many serious issues to realistically use
Hyprland on the PinePhone, and Phosh supports most of the features
we need out of the box anyway, so it makes sense to use that full-time
over trying to make something else work.
Kitty doesn't have touch support and gnome-console is pretty slow with
broken text rendering with fractional scaling, so alacritty is the best
option we have here.
Will be trying this again since Hyprland offers a substantial
performance improvement over Phosh and hardware accelerated videos
are broken anyway with the lower cpu speed.
Phone runs much, much cooler without irqbalance enabled and `cat
/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp` often reports a difference of
at least 10000, such as from 46897 to 36367. In other words, the phone
seems to be consistently 20 degrees fahrenheit cooler.
