| xmn | has anyone used libpebble2 in terminal to load apps, update time and connect with a pebble? | 06:47 |
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| brolin_empey | xmn: Not me but I never had a Pebble. | 10:07 |
| brolin_empey | I was curious to know if I can use my USB flexible disc drive (3.5-inch, supports both DD and HD discs) with Android 8 on my LG G5. So far I have not had any success but I do not know if a special Linux driver needs to be loaded to use a USB flexible disc drive? Is a USB flexible disc drive just a normal USB Mass Storage device like a USB SSD or USB HDD? I guess the Linux “floppy” driver is only for drives using the oldskool IBM/Intel parallel | 10:12 |
| brolin_empey | interface? | 10:12 |
| xmn | brolin_empey, thanks for commenting. And unfortunately I don't use android enough to share any knowledge. | 10:30 |
| brolin_empey | xmn: You are welcome. | 10:44 |
| brolin_empey | OK. | 10:44 |
| brolin_empey | I think a USB flexible disc drive is a normal USB Mass Storage device but I am not certain because I have only used this drive on Windows. | 10:44 |
| Vajb | does anyone have any experience about Xiaomi phones? Im thinking of buying Redmi Note 7 pro and installing LineageOs in it. | 11:37 |
| brolin_empey | Vajb: Most if not all models of Android smartphones from Xiaomi have a difficult to access and remove battery if I recall correctly. That means that I never bought one. | 11:43 |
| Vajb | yes, Im aware of that, but I don't consider it as a big problem. I have few devices without removable battery and they work well enough. And if I have to go to some sensitive place -> I just leave my phone home. | 11:49 |
| brolin_empey | Wait until the battery expands/bulges. Then you will have a problem if you cannot access the battery to remove it. | 11:52 |
| Vajb | well if it bulges enough it'll remove itself :) | 11:55 |
| Vajb | that actually happened to one mp3 player that I had | 11:55 |
| Vajb | brolin_empey: do you have some recommendation which has similiar specs than redmi note 7 pro and has removable battery? | 11:56 |
| Vajb | Im looking for best fit among price / performance | 11:57 |
| Vajb | that Xiaomi phone has 6gb of ram and Snapdragon 675 cpu | 11:58 |
| sicelo | there are very few new phones with removable battery | 12:02 |
| Vajb | sicelo: I recall you saying that you use LineageOs in phone? | 12:02 |
| sicelo | old phone ... Motorola Droid 4 | 12:10 |
| sicelo | and i used it on Samsung S4 before it fell and broke | 12:10 |
| Vajb | ah ok | 12:18 |
| brolin_empey | Also, if I recall correctly, when I looked at Xiaomi Android smartphones probably at least a year ago by now, most if not all of them had an AMLCD instead of an AMOLED display. I miss the AMOLED display of my Galaxy Note 3 since I switched to the LG G5 because I like what is supposed to be black to actually be black instead of grey. | 12:28 |
| brolin_empey | Vajb: I do not know that Xiaomi model off hand but do you like the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with high-resolution AMOLED display and easily accessible and removable battery? Galaxy Note 5 and later are not relevant to me because the battery being difficult to access and remove sucks. | 12:32 |
| Vajb | brolin_empey: I have only used Samsung galaxy tab 2 and Samsung galaxy A5. | 12:34 |
| brolin_empey | Vajb: I meant do the specifications of the Galaxy Note 4 seem satisfactory to you? I realise that the newest official OS is Android 6 but it can unofficially run up to at least Android 8 if I recall correctly. I only have a Galaxy Note 3 but my father has a Galaxy Note 4 but he still uses the stock/official Android 6 OS. | 12:38 |
| Vajb | ah, well I don't know the specs from memory, but will look at them thanks | 12:43 |
| sicelo | https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_4-6434.php | 12:44 |
| sicelo | nice, for such an old device .. of course it was flagship in its day | 12:45 |
| brolin_empey | The LG V20 looks nice too, still has an easily accessible and removable battery like the LG G5 but, like the LG G5, uses an AMLCD instead of AMOLED display if I recall correctly. | 12:47 |
| Vajb | I wish it had more ram, but otherwise nice device. Price range is good | 12:48 |
| brolin_empey | I have some old notebook computers (IBM ThinkPad 700 series, Apple MacBook with white plastic case, pre-unibody) that still have the original, easily removable battery that has not expanded but the computer will not power on if the battery is connected, which would be a problem if I could not easily remove the battery. | 12:53 |
| brolin_empey | Vajb: Do you mean the Galaxy Note 4? Or LG V20? | 12:54 |
| sicelo | the three of time side by side, https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=6434&idPhone2=9513&idPhone3=8238#*,48mp,h990ds | 12:57 |
| brolin_empey | PHP 3 is ancient. I wonder if they are really still using PHP 3 in 2019 or if they are stuck with “.php3” in their URIs because their Web site was originally created by someone who did not know what they were doing. | 13:00 |
| brolin_empey | GSM is ancient too, is the original digital cellular network if I recall correctly. A Nokia 1011 from 1992 is a GSM telephone (even though it is already technically a computer) but a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 or LG V20 is a user-programmable computer with a cellular modem that still supports GSM, not a telephone. | 13:07 |
| Vajb | it seems that galaxy note 5 is not supported by lineageos | 14:20 |
| brolin_empey | Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy Note 4? | 14:47 |
| brolin_empey | Galaxy Note 3 is supported by LineageOS. | 15:18 |
| Vajb | note5 | 18:57 |
| brolin_empey | sicelo: KotCzarny: How does your ThinkPad X40 like this image? ;-) | 20:27 |
| brolin_empey | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Aerial_view_of_Apple_Park_dllu.jpg | 20:27 |
| sicelo | brolin_empey: x40, 1.4GHz, 1GB RAM, https://paste.pics/d9853eadeb3d5a684d6c4cdee7864d73 | 21:46 |
| sicelo | it took a while to load ... i guess part of it is that i use a 1.8Mbps line .. that pic is huge. | 21:48 |
| sicelo | i guess one would hit the watchdog on n900 with this :) | 21:50 |
| brolin_empey | 1.4-GHz Pentium M? Does the Pentium M go that high? | 22:04 |
| sicelo | yes, from /proc/cpuinfo => model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.40GHz | 22:06 |
| brolin_empey | Yes, Wikipedia says that the maximum CPU clock rate for the Pentium M is 900 MHz to 2.26 GHz. | 22:10 |
| brolin_empey | Maybe the Pentium M in the Dell Latitude X1 is only 1.1 GHz because the Latitude X1 is fanless? | 22:11 |
| brolin_empey | If I recall correctly, the ThinkPad X40 has a fan but the fan only runs when needed. | 22:12 |
| sicelo | yes. although it can be noisy at times, but not too often. i don't do any tweaks for it as it doesn't bother me too much. at some point i probably should open up the laptop, do thermal paste and remove years of dust in the interoir | 22:18 |
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