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This article makes me wonder about comparative analysis against other models and brands. It is good Sig Sauer produced a failure mode analysis. Where are the competitive analysis documents?

It also makes me wonder if the reason it can't fix some of these issues is because it is working around patent issues.

Pure speculation.

Ever consider not using cloud for everything? Hosting this on traditional hosting would have limited the problem and the cost.

This was my experience too, spot on. They called this beta. I design hardware as a EE for a living: this is called failure. My pinephone is in a box.

EE here. Not really about admin/IT. But I do wonder sometimes if I should have done software as a career. Mostly it's a grass is greener feeling when I hear about the high end of the salaries. But I do very well financially, the jobs are stable, and I write cool software to solve my own problems, rather than grinding on someone else's Jira tasks. I do lots of IT and computer admin stuff too, but also on my own terms. Setting up simulation clusters, remote hardware automation, development environments, storage, etc... so much so that our department hired a guy to take on some of that work.

I can't find info on what radio you used. Code like this would be more fun to see with links to the hardware design. Is any of the design documented and published?

Confirmed on android. Instant crash.

99 times out of 100 when I think I might need a regular expression, I find it far better to code the search in python directly rather than using the regular expression engine at all. It's far easier to understand and you can run a regular debugger on it and use regular comments. In the 100'th case, I'll code most of the expression in straight python and a very small piece using the regular expression engine.

By straight python I mean things like 'for', 'split', 'startswith', 'find', and regular character indexing.

So for me this post is a solution to a problem that I just avoid.

I still use YNAB4 regularly. I have a paid copy from before they moved to an online model. I'm running it on ubuntu in wine. It still works fine.

I had never heard of Actual till today. It looks like it would cover my use case. I'm not sure why I would have switched, though, as YNAB4 still works for me and has no recurring charge and is fully local.

I'm in engineeering at a major engineering company historically using simulink and matlab. Python took over here in large part because matlab licensing caused so much friction, and we wanted to scale the simulink and matlab models up to run on a cluster of machines. We wanted to give scripts to people without matlab licenses quickly. etc. It was not the cost per-se, but the red tape.

We also ditched simulink because it is very difficult to version control and collaborate with a graphical interface.

Matlab is pushed heavily in the schools so all the engineers knew it and were comfortable with it. Matplotlib and numpy mimicing matlab very closely allowed the transition to be easy. We're not looking back. Only a handful of people still use matlab for their individual work because the python camp hit critical mass and the transition is not hard.

Matlab working to control serial ports, ethernet, visa/gpib instruments, all without the friction of getting extra licenses was icing on the cake. Matlab has a buy the cadillac model: the wheels, doors, hood, gas cap, mirrors are all optional add-ons. Each point causes friction, as only a few people had the whole tool, and therefore nobody could reliably share code.

I bought a PinePhone hoping to be able to start using it and developing on it. But until it can reliably make it through the day, stay connected to the network, and not miss calls and texts, I have to use my android phone and I don't have two sim cards, so I can't really use it and develop on it.

I'm a electrical hardware design engineer.

I agree, that if Pine64 has enough money to fund a full time engineer, that's a much better use than giving any money to the distros. They should be funding an embedded specialist who should focus on board bring up, because clearly we're not out of that stage yet.

I've built lots of high-volume electronics hardware that is easily as complex as a cell-phone, and the order of development is very important. I'm in the middle of such development right now... Working on software and UI is a dead last on that priority list every time.

Have you considered Lithium Titanate batteries? They can discharge at a temperature of -40C.

Just last month I switched over my copper land-line phone number that's been in the family at this address for over 50 years to voip.ms using an ATA. I'm pretty sure this is the longest it has ever been down in that entire 50 year period. On the flip side, I'm now paying $0.85/month compared to $45+/month with AT&T. (Oak Park, Illinois)

I'll bite. I think some of the crowd on HN might be interested in selling bandwidth. It seems like that's not the focus for orchid at the moment (based on the lack of info on the website and the lack of github build instructions.) Is there a support channel for someone interested in trying out staking, running a node, selling bandwidth, etc.? Is there a roadmap for supporting people interested in that side of things?

I just realized that this must not be the chirp font at all, based on looking at the g. This must be some fall-back font. oops. Still it looks terrible.