2026-02-27 07:30 UTC
@technobaboo@ordinary.cafe It... depends. It definitely can't be the only device you carry with you because of modem wakeup issues (you're pretty much guaranteed to miss a call before phone wakes up from sleep state).
In my case I could just stash a SIM card into a dumbphone or something and use that in case someone needs to call me (which are mostly scammers or government offices these days). Other than that, it definitely is daily-driveable.
I'm tempted to steal i2c lines from NFC, 3D print casing and make a keyboard folio to turn it into a real PDA (like the one Saten had in the beginning of Railgun)
Seeing how modem is done on tensor-based pixels I wonder if we'll have better luck with that once we get to modem bringup on GS101/GS201. It's basically just a PCIe device running it's own firmware, so it can send an interrupt to main SoC on incoming call to wake up, re-enable PCIe link and show the notification.
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@moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org 2026-02-27 14:32
@elly@donotsta.re @technobaboo@ordinary.cafe >I'm tempted to steal i2c lines from NFC, 3D print casing and make a keyboard folio to turn it into a real PDA I find touch keyboards to be pretty okay if the keys are as wide as my fingernails (i.e f-droid's Simple Keyboard on a horizontal display) but still. On that note: have you ever considered adding a hardware modding section to the postmarketOS and Chrultrabook websites/forums/docs? Not only for grafting on input devices, but also building battery packs and replacing the on-board eMMC storage with SD card readers.