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DIY smartphone? in c/diy@beehaw.org
[–] marv99@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Your question reminded my immediately about one of my favorite 35c3 talks Butterbrotdosen-Smartphone - Mein DIY-Smartphone-Bau from 2018-12-29. It is in German language, but has an English translation, too. Maybe it can give you some good starting ideas?

Video: 1080p

Story, Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

I would like to show you how I built a smartphone from a Raspberry PI. The problems and difficulties I encountered and the solutions I found. The project is not yet finished, there are still a few small things missing. Nevertheless, I want to show you my smartphone in the practical sandwich box and tell you how it came about.

I had no idea that building a smartphone could be so complicated. Raspberry Pi + touch display is not all there is to think about in this project. At the moment, the smartphone project lives in a sandwich box and attracts attention on the subway. If the power bank can passthrough, that's an advantage, I've found. Setting up the X and Y axes on the touch display so that you can also use the on-screen keyboard was not so easy. And I had to realize that Landscape is not the right size to work smoothly. Most Linux programs are not directly touch-compatible or require too much memory. Then there were also big challenges! Learning to solder was one of them. First learning how to solder, then learning how to desolder, and then daring to use the PI. I would like to tell you these and other stories about building my smartphone.

Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can't keep up in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] marv99@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you good bot, please take my social media profile.

zsh or fish for an intermediate Linux user? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] marv99@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let the religious shell wars begin ... again

Only right answer is of course TCSH. Not much documentation and support, ancient but still receives new bugs in 2021 (on Debian), but attackers hate it! (I love it)

My real suggestion is to learn zsh and fish (and bash). Try using them for all your purposes and in the end you will automatically find the one (or more of them) that suits you best and that you like most for your daily tasks.

Any alternatives to Google Photos? in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
[–] marv99@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

For the cloud storage part I can tell that Nextcloud serves the purpose fine.

I have configured our Android devices with Nextcloud app to upload new images directly into the my-nextcloud-user/files/SofortUpload folder. It has a structure /SofortUpload/ImageFolder/year/months/images, so for example /SofortUpload/Camera/2023/08/IMG_20230803_174100.jpg

("Sofort" is German for "immediate")

This auto-upload has been configured and happens (in our cases) also for the mobile device folders Pictures, Screenshots, Stickers, Telegram and Wallpaper.

For the timeline and viewing part I would also take suggestions, as having not yet found a good solution.

Foss alternative to google pay? in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] marv99@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clarifying. Unfortunately I do not know a FOSS alternative for this purpose.

Foss alternative to google pay? in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] marv99@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is google pay similar to PayPal?

For micro-transactions I stumbled over the GNU Taler project a while ago.

Wikipedia article

Project page

Last time I checked it was not production ready, but maybe it is worth a look?

What was the first modem you ever had? How fast was it? in c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
[–] marv99@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

My first modem was a Dataphone s21 (German Akustikkoppler) for the Commodore C64. It gave me breath-taking 300 baud on the data highway (aka boards).