Your last paragraph reminded me that I had to set up Waydroid so I could install Telegram(Android). Just so I could create an account, so I could then use the already installed Telegram desktop that came by default with like any mobile distribution I tried.
I read Hacker News every day on my Pinephone. Calls and texts(mms included) 80-99% work. Youtube.com worked/still does but very badly. I'll just blame the really cheep SoC. When I tried to get GPS working it looked like 90% of it was there. Had modem getting locks on sats and a maps app, but locks took forever, and the inter process communication didn't work so I'm not sure if the cords I saw in terminal we're actally accurate. The pluging it into a lapdock and using it like a laptop works if your paitent (blames cheep SoC agian). GIMP did manage to load but small screen and slow cpu resulted in that not getting reinstalled next disto hop.
If you want to ask more questions and this site has some way to message me with notifications feel free! I've been using this Pinephone for at least over a year or 2.
Random aside: Don't use an SD card as a boot/main drive. I got a 256 & 128 gb SD card that are read only now..
You could just plug the phone into a small usb-c hub and plug some usb wifi dongel or ethernet cord into it. Not sure if that would solve your use case.
Yep, it could work, and I happen to have such a hub (it came with the PinePhone). I think the PinePhone is able to receive power AND do USB OTG at the same time, to be confirmed.
To be completely honest, what I had in mind was to use it as a Bluetooth receiver to play music using my dumb speakers. I don't have a Bluetooth receiver and at this point if I have to buy something I might be better off buying some off the shelf device to do this. So the status quo is to just plug a laptop the times I want to play music in this room because I don't care that much about it.
For me meta programing (code that can generate code based on other code). I used this on my current personal project to get serilization & tagged unions, in a language that didn't have those in the standard feature set. It enables so many things, I can't go without now!
I've ran the installer for Vallorent. I don't remember it telling me it was going to go run code in ring 0. And I would likely have ended the install there if they listed any of the downsides.
For most gamers you'd have to invoke Cloud Strike, to explain whats happening. They play games not study CS.
I did the same with ksp2... Part that really hurt there was finding out it was a production disaster the entire time.. One or 2 of the correct people in the right place could have saved it!
Busy waiting on bots to build out 16 lanes of copper smelting in my space age base right now, funney enough. Though I'm fixing LDS shortages.
On the topic of old games, many times the Minecraft Modding scene can solve the all the new games suck problem on its own!
Thinking about it the threads in a game that normally need more CPU time are the ones that are doing lots of sys calls. You'd have to use a fair bit of async and atomics, to split the work into compute and chatting with the kernal. Might as well figure out how to do it 'right' and use 2+ threads so it can scale. Side note the compute heavy low sys call freqency stuff like terrain gen belongs in the pool of back ground threads, normaly.
I own a 5950x, that 130 number sounds extremly wrong for idle. I'd recommand checking settings in bios. I'm getting around 7-20 depending on which number I read in Ryzen Master, so adding in the gpu idle of around 30-40, I'm around half of 130 for the entire system! I'll also add low idle power would make scence for a server owner, so I could see AMD priorizing it..
