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.
This was my attempt at using GNOME Mobile. It works inside the x86_64
virtual machine but fails when reaching "Started Display Manager" on the
actual device.
This was used to get kitty to work however GNOME terminal is much faster
than kitty on the PinePhone and has touch support, making it superior
for daily use.
`networking.firewall.checkReversePath` was being set to "loose" from
Mullvad VPN, which was causing an issue with the kernel used by the
PinePhone with Mobile NixOS.
By changing this option to `false`, we get rid of the "This kernel does
not support rpfilter" error, which seems to be inaccurate due to the
result of `sysctl -a | grep \\.rp_filter` on the phone being consistent
with the result on the laptop.
