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pythoneye2 is offline pythoneye2
2023-02-11 , 20:49
Posts: 110 | Thanked: 362 times | Joined on May 2014
#7
Originally Posted by t-b View Post
Totally understandable. For some folks my first GSM (Nokia 3310) still works fine though.
Just got two calls and a text message on my good old N900. So it still works fine as a phone. As bonus - emacs and Rockbox are awesome on it - the only thing I miss to make it my main and only phone is Whatsapp. For that reason I need an additional phone.
termux proot can run emacs (even gui versions) in newer versions on faster hardware (you allready have) on larger screens, which allow bigger (better?) onscreen keyboards, very well. No need to carry a second old device just for emacs (or a linux userland)

(its insane newer devices have finally soo much ram that it is possible to run a second os (and even a third one (looking at you firefox ) in it)
[you just have to deal with soo much android crap])

(compare that to n900 which uses 90mb of swap after just booting..)

I guess i would still use my n900 in 2023, but i would not try to start from scratch or any other starting points given in this thread to get a useful functional device (with browser, maps and location).

Even as a phone only there are so many bugs:
* charging from flat battery
* battery calibration
* dead rtc backup battery
* bad solder contacts on gazoo
* weak usb port
* low standby time compared to even a Nokia 3310 (?)
* constant swapping to emc
* boot time > 1:30 min (?)
* brocken lcd connectors and backlights
* bluetooth not reliable
* wired focus problems due too powermanagement optimisations

no thanks not in 2023, not for me