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Re: "so, i wanted to write that i guess today we are living in..."
How long does the battery last?
2023-07-14 · 11 months ago
🐙 norayr [OP] · 2023-07-14 at 10:46:
well, much better than pinephone has with mainline kernel. motorola omap chipsets have very good power management support in kernel.
but of course it depends on the battery. mine is crappy. android on d4 refuses to charge it. it doesn't believe it has a d4 compatible battery. linux charges it, and i have the impression that despite me keeping the phone on charge often, the battery life only got better.
usually it lasts a day, even when running dino always. but of course it also depends on dino. i had to open another xmpp account which has less chats added. with mcabber it certainly lasts till i come home. but i carry a power bank with myself. i got it for pinephone though. and i really prefer d4.
so, i wanted to write that i guess today we are living in the age of cyperpunk already. i was reading /s/retrocomputing topics, and i wanted to share that i always have in my pocket motorola droid 4 phone. it doesn't work as phone at all. it has no sim card in it. and i don't like 'phones', since even when using floss lineageos or grapheneos, it's sort of a 'phone os' and not a real operating system. i have a feeling that i use the tv or radio, not a computing device. do you remember the...