Posts made by athansor

@C0n57an71n @kugiigi @Lakotaubp Thanks for your replies! I think my dissatisfaction stems in part from from the lack of people throwing out good workarounds for Stuff That Doesn't Work. I remember back in 2008, when I first moved my business onto Ubuntu, it had a lot of issues but I could almost always go on Ubuntu Forums, throw a question up, and somebody would have a workaround or two that I could try. These days, the user community is far more disparate -- on this forum, on the Pine64 forum, on Telegram, on Matrix, Discord, you name it -- and it's hard to track them all. So I'll throw something out on the Pine64 forum, get dead air, try another, until something clicks, if anything does. I'll try most any hack someone will give me, I'm just not smart enough to think these things up for myself.

For me, it has nothing to do with FB. None of my social apps work, from twitter to reddit. They all stop dead in their tracks with a "connection refused" error message. I checked ufw, it's disabled. I haven't a clue, nor, apparently, does anyone else.

@UBportsNews Does anybody read the filed bugs? There are bugs there 4-5 months old, of pretty critical issues, with no response. I've filed a few but I have no idea what happens to them.

I also moved over to the development channel, get a new update daily, but I see absolutely no progress in user experience. I guess a lot of stuff is getting done under the hood but in the end, if it doesn't result in any change for the end user, it seems rather pointless. The problems I had when I got the pinephone over a month ago continue to exist today, and they aren't insignificant ones -- no reception of texts, overheating during phone calls, loss of volume on phone, all apps except pre-installed ones getting "connection refused" messages.

I mean, I wasn't expecting a daily driver, but as it is, my pinephone is hardly worth the effort to charge it.

If you don't mind a little messing around, here's a guy that figured out a couple of simple bash scripts to do it:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10744