| galiven | Worth figuring out how to get from San Francisco to San Jose and give some randow person I've never met $100 for a "Unlocked n900 Excellent condition"? (https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/mob/d/san-jose-unlocked-nokia-n900/6887571145.html) | 06:48 |
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| galiven | Though right now I'm going to bed, so I won't see any answer til tomorrow. | 06:49 |
| xmn | no pic, is not encouraging. But depends how bad you want one. | 06:51 |
| xmn | I still use mine everyday. | 06:51 |
| slobber | damn, too bad xmn left | 09:06 |
| slobber | does anyone else here use n900 daily? | 09:06 |
| slobber | if so, what's the preferred configuration? stock maemo or anything else? | 09:06 |
| sicelo | CSSU Stable is most preferred. | 09:11 |
| sicelo | I use it with CSSU Thumb. Haven't had any issues, but ymmv | 09:12 |
| slobber | interesting | 09:13 |
| slobber | wow, the process for getting to cssu and cssu thumb is really as easy as changing repos and installing the packages, huh | 09:17 |
| slobber | i feel like a few years ago when i still had my n810 things were not as streamlined | 09:17 |
| sicelo | you've just got one? start with CSSU Stable for at least a week. You can play wth Testing and/or Thumb after that, and see which works best for your use case | 09:37 |
| slobber | sicelo: no, thinking of getting one | 09:40 |
| slobber | just siphoning the docs at this point | 09:40 |
| sicelo | two main problems to be aware of when getting one: (1) USB ports have a nasty habit of coming off, (2) modem stops working, and practically unrepairable. | 09:43 |
| slobber | both of those sound horrible | 09:52 |
| sicelo | not all devices get afflicted, but it'd be unfortunate to buy one with (2). | 09:55 |
| slobber | i can't find any in properly decent condition on ebay anyway | 09:56 |
| sicelo | the USB problem is not too bad, imo, if the port came off cleanly - i fixed mine myself, even though that was my first SMD job. | 09:56 |
| slobber | they're either beat up or refabbed in china or 300$ | 09:56 |
| slobber | i did a usb port on a phone recently, messed up the data pins though | 09:57 |
| slobber | so probably not going to attempt another for a _while_ | 09:57 |
| sicelo | look and ask on tmo as well ... i guess that's where you'll get some of the best condition N900 | 09:57 |
| sicelo | (you can alwasy take the N900 to a proper electronics repair shop) ;) | 09:57 |
| slobber | tmo? literally tmobile stores? | 09:58 |
| slobber | here are a few, but not sure whether i should trust china's refurbishing https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=&SearchText=n900 | 10:00 |
| sicelo | https://talk.maemo.org/ | 10:00 |
| slobber | ohhh, right | 10:00 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | ~tmo | 17:42 |
| infobot | hmm... tmo is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMO, or http://talk.maemo.org, or http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio#TMO. It's *not* T-MO (see ~T-MO) or trolls, morons, oxen. | 17:42 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | ~usbfix | 17:42 |
| infobot | usbfix is probably http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=75920 - and **NEVER** use epoxy (unless you want to seal your device for underwater), or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYz5nIHH0iY#t=1866, you will basically need two irons: a small good one (or better hot-air reflow) and a 60+ Watt, or to avoid breakage, see ~usb-unplug | 17:42 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | 100 bucks is steep for a used device | 17:43 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | anything you need (to know about) "best config": | 17:44 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | ~lf | 17:44 |
| infobot | hmm... #maemo lazyflashing is http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware#The_Lazy_Approach | 17:44 |
| * DocScrutinizer05 knows a source of at least 200 devices in pretty much mint condition ;-D | 17:45 | |
| slobber | DocScrutinizer51: can you share that source? | 18:32 |
| galiven | Haha, that makes sense that your stockpile is no longer called for since the project is done :'( | 19:29 |
| galiven | I've been managing with a GTA04 for a few years hoping the Nikolaus would overcome the hurdles on the GTA05 or my deposit on Neo900 would pay off. But the GTA04 is not in very good shape. | 19:31 |
| galiven | I confess that I put money down on the Purism phone too. It's far from perfect but all the free-er options have stalled. | 19:33 |
| sicelo | any updates on the pyraphone or some such? | 19:34 |
| galiven | Nikolaus has been working on iio-bridge in the kernel to handle multiple accelerometers as input devices, but the maintainer of that subsystem doesn't seem to like the approach. | 19:36 |
| galiven | Thats all I know from lurking on the list. | 19:36 |
| sicelo | thanks for the info | 19:44 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | have ab eye on cosmo communicator, not exactly "free" but... genuine support for multiboot, which means a bit at least | 20:44 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | an* | 20:44 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | a complete opposite the the purism approach as I understand it, which seems to be "our hardware our OS and we base our OS on something that once been debian" or somesuch | 20:46 |
| xmn | I can't wait for some of these device come out then tested and have the 2nd iteration put out. Which is kinda of the case for cosmo, but for them maybe the 3 or 4th vers. | 20:47 |
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