My Pinephone has a switch for the microphone and also my Pinebook Pro laptop. But I also would agree that this is exotic hardware.

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whatevaa 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Well i have Pinebook Pro and it's pretty much abandonware, pine doesn't do any software and OSS lacks maintainers, nobody want's it, e-waste laptop. Take it as you will.

	▲	KetoManx64 7 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don't they warn you on the product page that you are buying hardware that is fully reliant on the community for functionality? That's the reason it's so inexpensive
	▲	megous 7 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, that's nonsense. Pinebook Pro is well supported by Linux kernel and you can thus put any aarch64 Linux distro on it. And it's been this way for the last 3-4 years at the very least. I've been using it daily for 3 years for watching movies and main notebook while traveling. It's not at all abandonware or e-waste.

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lukan 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

"But I also would agree that this is exotic hardware."

No shit. How is the current state btw?

I suppose still not ready to be a daily driver to replace my normal phone?

	▲	ri0t 7 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I suppose still not ready to be a daily driver to replace my normal phone? I'd say that depends on your definition of daily driver and/or how much compromises you're willing to take. I occasionally see members at my larger hackerspace running around with those or other seemingly "unfit" hardware and not complain too much about it ;)
	▲	megous 7 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Kernel is in "maintenance and focussed on upstreaming" mode for a few years already, after getting nearly full HW support about 2-3 years ago. As for phone feature, reliability of that depends on reliability of firmware of the modem, which was always shaky.