I haven’t heard anything in months. Maybe there is legal trouble?
My wife has one, it’s been a long time since she have talked about it though.
She used to mention when improvements were made.Edit: Pinephone.
One what? Pine64 is a company with a bunch of different products
Sorry silly me, a Pinephone.
Which distro does she have installed?
Mobian of course she says.
( She uses Debian on the computer )You have an amazing wife. Now install Gentoo on her device
Pine64s “problem” was they only ever did the hardware. Like they sponsor some software, but they make and sell hardware. They gained a lot of popularity from the Pinephone, but very little changed internally at Pine64. They’re still the same they always were
What? I get really annoyed at hardware companies that do software. Like, first thing I’m gonna do with anything I buy is wipe it and install my own OS. Why would you waste so much time making a forked OS?
Do one thing, and do it well.
Especially when software already exists, it prevent duplicating efforts.
I think you are confusing “making another fedora fork for a laptop brand” with “porting a booloader to the device” or “writing a driver for the screen”. Simply put you would not be able to use the hardware without the software. Outsourcing it to the community makes the hardware cheaper but the sideeffect is that the software will be crappy even after years of development. For some reason people aren’t very keen on writing the low level stuff.
If you compare the Espruino smart watch to the Pine64 smartwatch, it’s a night and day difference. My guess is that it’s because Espruino handles the low level stuff and let community do the fun stuff, while Pine64 leaves everything on the community. Imo you need a fulltime developer who actually spends time looking in the datasheet and figuring out, how to properly put the PineTime to sleep, not just people who peek into the docs every Saturday.
Oh yeah, I’m not referring to drivers. I’m thinking of things like PureOS
Definitely a long way off from how active they were a year or two ago.
Feels like there’s a lot of that going around.
It seems like every FOSS project I stumble across these days hasn’t had a Connie in at least a year.
Not the huge ones, obviously, but anything even slightly off the mainstream.
Just looking at the Infinitime repo, they seem alive and well, even changing EoL chips
https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/releases/
https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/pinetime-mcuboot-bootloader/releases/tag/1.0.1
I was under the impression that infinitime was more of a community effort than a pine64 effort?
It is, but they are talking about the hardware in these last release notes, about a chip that will get replaced in the actual hardware, therefor i don’t think they are completely dead! Long lice Pine64
Certainly feels like it and I personally wouldn’t buy anything from them at the moment.
Edit: would -> wouldn’t
I have ordered stuff from them before and they delivered every time. I don’t think they would sell something they don’t plan to ship. If you look at the inventory it is a little parse.
Also I believe they contract an outside company to manage the warehouse and to fulfill orders
I personally would buy anything from them at the moment.
You would?
I wouldn’t; perfectly placed mistake?
Do you mean misplaced take?
Sorry couldn’t help myself. 😋
I have ordered stuff from them before and they delivered every time. I don’t think they would sell something they don’t plan to ship. If you look at the inventory it is a little parse.
Other people claim they have ordered and delivery was not happening for half a year etc. Seemed like something was up with supply.
I don’t have concerns about shipping, more about the community building and support aspect of their products.
If you’re happy with a product’s current state then fine, but if not you’re pretty much on your own.
Bought a Pinecil a few weeks ago. No problems.
minor spelling mistake
Check out their matrix https://pine64.org/community/
Both global and EU store still sell things. They are still active on social media. I have plenty of their products (PinePhone with keyboard case, PinePhone Pro with LoRA add-on, Pinecil, PineTab2, PineNote, PineTime) which I use often, some on a daily basis, other weekly basis. They just work. As others have pointers out they don’t do software, “just” hardware with some community fostering. If tomorrow they announce another product (not sure what that could be as, simply by listing now they are covering already a LOT) and if I need it, I would buy it without much hesitation.
Now I imagine if they don’t have anything new they don’t announce much, which is reasonable. They might not need the “buzz” as long as they manage the sales in their pipelines.
I would honestly like to see more products but arguably they already have good coverage. Let me ask you then, what do you wish they would add to their existing product line?
I would guess that they’ll be sourcing a next-gen RISC-V processor ASAP, since those will enable virtualisation. If they stick one in a laptop shell I’d probably buy it pretty quickly. Doubly so if it has EFI.
They already sell the Pinetab RISC-V so quite feasible. I’m not sure I’d buy one as I already have a Banana-Pi (SpacemiT K1 8 so not exactly “next-gen”) so my next purchase on that would probably be something that would be relatively powerful enough to “forget” it’s not ARM/AMD64 for daily usage (which we might not be very far from, not really sure).
The moment I can get a laptop-style RISC-V device with virtualisation support I’m doing it. Double bonus if I can actually use it as my daily driver.
https://pine64.org/2024/03/17/march-update-making-waves/
Doesn’t look dead to me.
Are you wanting monthly updates or something?
I don’t get why people freak out if they don’t see constant updates. Is this the result of Fortinite updates on one’s brain?
They had monthly updates almost 2 years straight. They weren’t big but they had the latest news. The fact they suddenly went quite with little community engagement is concerning to me
To me that just signifies the company has stabilized and no longer needs to put out statements constantly to keep eyes on them for marketing reasons.
