Statement of Bias: Pinephone (bravehart version) and PineTab owner. Pleased with both, but not using pinephone yet.
There are reasons for the price differences, and there are very good reasons for both approaches.
The Librem phone is the product of a for-profit company. They have a strong incentive to build a "finished" and functional product with working hardware and fullly integrated software (maybe evertyhing doesn't work now, but as long as there is a product to sell, they will be working to get there)
Regarding your speaker on the Pine: The problem here clearly is a lack of debug logging and hardware documentation. This is what I learned, going from Windows to Linux: You can actually solve all your problems! You switch on debug logging, trigger the problem (like sound playback in your case) and let the log tell you what the problem is. Then you fix that, if clear. Or look at the code that creates the error message and look what decisions led there. (Like being unable to write to a missing/dev/ file.) And if the software thinks all is fine and dandy, you try with a different hardware device (e.g. a virtual sound card in your case, and redirect the sound to a file to listen to on your PC). If that works fine, you start replacing the hardware component for a good one. If that works, get a new part. If not, check for misconfiguration of the driver or other hardware settings. I find it actually enjoyable, to see that I can always resolve such problems.
On, and it was called the beige box by the way. Gray-beige was what they all were.
PinePhone competitor (Score:4, Informative)
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/libr... [shop.puri.sm]
https://pine64.com/product-cat... [pine64.com]
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Statement of Bias: Pinephone (bravehart version) and PineTab owner. Pleased with both, but not using pinephone yet.
There are reasons for the price differences, and there are very good reasons for both approaches.
The Librem phone is the product of a for-profit company. They have a strong incentive to build a "finished" and functional product with working hardware and fullly integrated software (maybe evertyhing doesn't work now, but as long as there is a product to sell, they will be working to get there)
Re: PinePhone competitor (Score:2)
Regarding your speaker on the Pine: The problem here clearly is a lack of debug logging and hardware documentation. /dev/ file.)
This is what I learned, going from Windows to Linux: You can actually solve all your problems! You switch on debug logging, trigger the problem (like sound playback in your case) and let the log tell you what the problem is. Then you fix that, if clear. Or look at the code that creates the error message and look what decisions led there. (Like being unable to write to a missing
And if the software thinks all is fine and dandy, you try with a different hardware device (e.g. a virtual sound card in your case, and redirect the sound to a file to listen to on your PC).
If that works fine, you start replacing the hardware component for a good one. If that works, get a new part. If not, check for misconfiguration of the driver or other hardware settings.
I find it actually enjoyable, to see that I can always resolve such problems.
On, and it was called the beige box by the way. Gray-beige was what they all were.