Note that we're using libopus and libx264 instead of flac and ffvhuff to
significantly reduce the file size and make it easier to play back the
recorded video on the PinePhone.
Note that there will be no preview while recording the video. The video
recording is also delayed a bit, so it's necessary to wait a few seconds
after you finish recording a video before pressing q to stop it.
Note that glib was supposedly added for mounting-related things, but
this should be possible to upstream into the derivation instead if it
hasn't been added already.
Unfortunately lutgen doesn't have transparency support added to its main
branch yet and there doesn't seem to be any indicator that this will
ever be added, so we'll have to use an alternative to avoid manually
compiling it.
This helps guarantee that phone call audio will work as long as the
phone wasn't suspended prior to the phone call, in which case the
pulseaudio server needs to be restarted first.
Note that this removes the possibility of using the PinePhone for tasks
where audio is particularly important, although it's likely more
enjoyable to accomplish those tasks on a more reliable device anyway.
I may come up with a solution that automates fixing the audio after
suspend in the future.
This makes LibreWolf work well on the PinePhone without having to
manually use the FriendlyFox installation script.
Note that FriendlyFox was chosen over the mobile-config-firefox script
from postmarketOS due to FriendlyFox having less issues overall, such as
not breaking when the right click menu is long and popup menus having
altered styles for mobile support.
The year is 2024 and httpie is no longer in fashion. httpie was broken
on NixOS anyway due to certificate verification errors, and wget is
unnecessary overall since scripts that depend on it have their own $PATH
with it available.
See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/94666
Might add some more search engines later, but Mullvad usually produces
better results for less popular content, especially with topics such as
PinePhone troubleshooting.
I originally wanted to avoid maintaining my own forks of flake inputs to
simplify usage with the actual upstream if wanted, however the lack of
flakes supporting patches means that it's actually *easier* to maintain
my own repositories with the changes I want.
The main advantage of this is not having to wait for upstream. This also
means that I'm able to easily control which things I want to update and
when.
This is a huge step towards using the phone as a phone without having to
worry about using Phosh long-term. This could potentially lead to an
extremely minimal phone in the future that has improved performance for
simple tasks.
Will be using the phone as a portable web browser to avoid issues with
native applications generally being slower and lacking features you'd
find in their web counterparts.
Had to reinstall NixOS on the PinePhone again since a corrupted Nix
store broke everything and was unrecoverable due to not being able to
successfully repair specific files with the use of SSH substituters.
This time we will be trying the PinePhone without LUKS encryption to see
if this makes a difference in the performance of the device. Technically
encryption *isn't* supposed to make things slower in 2024 but the
PinePhone CPU is old enough that performance could've been affected.
Alacritty has some significant issues that make it a non-starter for me
on the PinePhone, such as neovim not displaying properly over SSH.
As an alternative to no touch support in kitty and no shift modifiers in
squeekboard, tmux can be used instead.
rustscan is a nice alternative to nmap that's easier to use and doesn't
require the usage of sudo in certain situations.
nix-update is a nice script that makes updating the versions and hashes
of packages way easier than editing them by hand.
