Hacker News: sicelo

New comment by sicelo in "Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)"

sicelo — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 09:13:29 +0000

> I've never understood this about N900 fans.

> Or was there something else about it?

It's pretty simple: hacker vs. user points of view

i used both N9 and N900. N9 was a way more polished, user-centric device. I love the UX and even how the device looks

however, for (low-level) hackers, N9/N950 was a bit hostile environment compared to N900. The first major stumbling block was Aegis (somewhat similar to Samsung's Knox perhaps). With N900, you can just boot any other Linux by simply loading u-boot to memory using the flasher. Nothing else. N9/N950's Aegis prevented that kind of luxury, so you needed to mess with the OS first, deal with permanent ominous warranty warning, and risk bricking it (see https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81579). On the other hand, N900 is basically unbrickable. So N950 loses to N900 because of these reasons, even though it has a keyboard, a somewhat better one in fact

New comment by sicelo in "Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? Legacy devices too!"

sicelo — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:38:12 +0000

3G is still working where I live, and will be, for quite some time :-) And yes, VoIP works (if you install a VoIP application), so that's a non-issue.

New comment by sicelo in "Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? Legacy devices too!"

sicelo — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:06:22 +0000

Pine64 doesn't do any software, so the comparison is apples to oranges :-)

The software from the N9 became what today is SailfishOS (mostly FOSS, but UI closed), and for something fully FOSS, Nemo is also derived from Harmattan, https://nemomobile.net/

New comment by sicelo in "Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? Legacy devices too!"

sicelo — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 06:26:55 +0000

Nokia N900 Motorola Droid 4

For these two, see https://maemo-leste.github.io/

You can text and use gps on both of them, as well as make voice calls on the Motorola Droid 4 (calls work on N900, but you need complex audio routing and audio filtering. If anyone has experience with Linux audio, the project will appreciate their assistance)

Yes, they both have non-free PowerVR GPU, but its blobs work on Linux mainline, at least

New comment by sicelo in "Usable hardware thrown away due to no software updates, let's talk about it"

sicelo — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:55:48 +0000

PostmarketOS aims to deal with this very problem, https://postmarketos.org

New comment by sicelo in "Arm kills off its anti-RISC-V site after own staff revolt"

sicelo — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:24:33 +0000

New comment by sicelo in "Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget?"

sicelo — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:35:02 +0000

It seems to me you already have a good laptop. What version of Debian/Ubuntu are you using? kernel?

New comment by sicelo in "Ask HN: How do I turn my smartphone into a dumbphone?"

sicelo — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 06:27:05 +0000

uninstall the apps, remove accounts ... if you'll still be keeping WhatsApp, you might not be really ready for a dumbphone

New comment by sicelo in "2018 and CD burning still painful"

sicelo — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:22:33 +0000

2018 and still burning audio CDs? Not that one shouldn't, but ...

Limbo PC Emulator for Android Based on QEMU

sicelo — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:30:05 +0000

Article URL: https://limboemulator.weebly.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16333321

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sicelo in "Trello/Asana-Killer: Stop Killing TIME, Because TIME Will Kill You"

sicelo — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 13:13:08 +0000

sounds like a type of pomodoro?

New comment by sicelo in "Ask HN: Whats the difference between email and IM?"

sicelo — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 12:23:20 +0000

strange question - shortest answer is probably: > "the 'instant'" in IM

New comment by sicelo in "Ask HN: Living with seriously limited Internet?"

sicelo — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:00:13 +0000

how does clearing cache regularly help?

New comment by sicelo in "New Android version may give carriers ability to hide signal strength from users"

sicelo — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 12:22:45 +0000

what are the benefits/uses?

New comment by sicelo in "Ask HN: Need help from police officers for problem validation"

sicelo — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 10:04:33 +0000

perhaps you could detail the problem here :-)

New comment by sicelo in "Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app"

sicelo — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:02:35 +0000

I use Termux a lot too, because the Nokia N900 spoiled me and taught me to use Terminal on phone at all times.

Instead of Android + Termux, one can also look at Sailfish OS. You get all that functionality by default. There's also PostMarket OS [1], which should support at least some Android phones

[1] https://postmarketos.org

New comment by sicelo in "Startup Friendly – Free web hosting"

sicelo — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 08:50:15 +0000

Google doesn't like it:

"Suspicious link This link leads to an untrusted site. Are you sure you want to proceed to my.stacklinux.com?"

But it seems to be a great site indeed. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by sicelo in "Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices"

sicelo — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 06:34:52 +0000

what is a solution?

New comment by sicelo in "FCC asks Apple to activate the iPhone’s hidden FM radio to aid public safety"

sicelo — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:25:20 +0000

The likelihood is that the iPhone user will most likely be carrying only the Apple device when the catastrophe strikes.

Just wondering: would Apple be open to including FM radio in the iPhone 9 or whatever their next phone will be?

New comment by sicelo in "FCC asks Apple to activate the iPhone’s hidden FM radio to aid public safety"

sicelo — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 06:34:42 +0000

I've never seen an iPhone displaying a CB message. Our mobile operator uses channel 50 to advertise network discounts, and iPhones don't display this, while many other phones do.

Does CB messaging work on iPhones?