[–] 6 points 1 year ago

Out of the options you mentioned, Pixel with a custom rom (GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, etc.) is probably the best bet. Seconded by any Samsung that could run a custom rom, though I agree with others here that the hardware is better on the Pixels. Plus they have extra security hardware features that will be better. Of course, if things are weird with your telecom, that might effect things (trust me, been there with an Ubuntu Touch phone before.)

Another option you could look at depending on where you are is Murena's phones. They have a bunch of options pre-flashed with their de-Googled rom /e/ os. Not my favorite rom, but still not bad! And of course those can be flashed with another rom if you want as well!

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  • Can't boot into 9front (lemmy.sdf.org)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/plan9@lemmy.sdf.org
     

    I installed 9front on an old Dell Inspiron laptop, but I can't seem to get it to boot. I checked, and it looks like the files to allow it to boot are present on the drive, the partition is marked as active, and secure boot is off. I've also tried in both legacy and uefi boot modes. Is there something that might have gone wrong somewhere, or is it most likely related to the hardware I'm trying to run it on? Any help is appreciated, and I'm happy to answer questions :)

    Edit: I figured it out. My drive wasn't formatted as MBR, and the installer wasn't asking if I wanted to format it since it wasn't an empty drive, so I formatted it correctly before installing. I also chose cwfs instead of hjfs. These changes made it so I could boot

    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    You might be able to find a super lightweight desktop distro out there (I think Damn Small Linux can run on those specs?) or you could repurpose it as a basic server of some sort like you mentioned. Unless you wanted to invest in some cheap old ram to throw in there and maybe make it a bit faster, then I think those would be your best options.

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    Not sure if this is the place to ask, I recently moved to OKC for an internship and was looking into the local 2600 meetings, since I finally live in a city that has them. I found where they meet in the latest issue, but that's about all I know. I don't know any times or days or anything. I've tried looking around on the web, but also haven't found much. Does anyone know how I could go about finding any of that info out?

     

    I saw that the FreeBSD Foundation announced it was working with Framework to certify their laptops to be able to run FreeBSD out of the box. I am currently running GhostBSD (FreeBSD-based for anyone who is unfamiliar) and was wondering some things about reporting bugs.

    1. Do I just report them to the normal Bugzilla tracker? Or is there somewhere else I should report bugs?
    2. Is it a problem that I'm running GhostBSD instead of normal FreeBSD? I know it is based on FreeBSD Stable, but I wanted to check in case it would be different enough that I should be reporting elsewhere.
    submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
     

    I have been a member of my current Mastodon instance for a few years now, and I absolutely love the community there. But recently, I found a Firefish instance that I am thinking of maybe switching over to, because I like Firefish so far, and the community there is also really awesome. I figure with migrating followers, I can still be a part of both communities from the new account (especially since I mainly stay in my following feed and don't really browse the local feed.)

    I'm still holding off on migrating for a bit until the honeymoon phase wears off, but if I do end up doing it, is there anything I need to/should do beyond just going through the migration process and transferring the data over? Like is there some sort of courtesy post I should make on my Mastodon instance saying I am moving over? Or am I just overthinking everything?

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