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The EU store ships from the EU with warranty, support, etc. for quite a hefty premium. I ordered from the global store which ships from Hong Kong. Paid ~500€ a year ago (including taxes).

The display looks great and mine doesn’t have the stuck pixel or the buggy lines issue you experienced

They have since fixed that.

though I do have very noticeable ghosting artifacts

Unfortunately just the nature of the technology. If you’re just reading, DU4:3 works the best, for manga I use the full G:4 mode with screen refresh for every page flip enabled.

I wrote some custom profiles for each (Default, Book, Manga, Notes, Notes (Landscape) which I have on my desktop, I can send you the scripts if you want.

Couldn’t find a good way to use browsers on it yet since they all smooth scroll instead of jumping in fixed intervals.

I left mine running over night with KOReader open, Nextcloud in background, no suspend and it took 20 hours and 10 minutes to go from 100% to 10%.

As @poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org wrote, there is a pretty significant phantom drain where it loses about 15% per day when suspended.

I have used the same tip for a year and it’s still fine. It also comes with 2 tip replacement and all of the generic pens for EMR screens work on the Pinenote.

Can’t say much about the battery life but I’m going to leave it running once it’s fully charged and report back.

I have one, I wrote a small review for it last year: https://domistyle.gitlab.io/pinenote-2024/ (enable autoplay so the videos play).

You can test Xournal++ and KOReader on any Linux desktop, it’s what works best on the PineNote right now.

They also have an active Matrix group where the main developers are present.

2027/2032 is still some time away.

However, accessibility features provided by third-party applications may be worse in some aspects. Please open a bug report if you have any special requirements that we don’t cover yet! This is an active topic we’re very interested in improving.

Let them know what you need.

Do you use a USB bluetooth dongle?

If yes, add a small USB extension cable between the dongle and the port, a few centimeters are enough.

If no, antennas improve reliability a lot. I swapped my internal M.2 bluetooth module to a more modern one and added magnetic antennas to the side of my case. No more disconnects since then (without xpadneo).

I also think Gnome is much prettier than KDE but KDE is a fully working desktop environment that does not need extensions to get it to a working state so here I am.

(Although I would not call KDE ugly)

Did you never get a replacement by the mainboard manufacturer or AMD?

EXcept all mail programs suck to an unexpected degree, but that is literally my only complaint.

What’s wrong with Thunderbird/Betterbird?

It does work via Flatpak, you have to give Freetube the “D-Bus session bus” permission and then put the following in your external player settings (this launches the flatpak mpv):

External player

mpv

Custom External Player Executable:

flatpak-spawn

Custom External Player Arguments:

–host flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv <any mpv arguments you need>

syncing to the clown, none of that

What did that clown ever do to you?

Up until recently, there was no HDR support at all on regular desktop Linux. Now Wayland has HDR support and Kodi is getting it soon.

CoreELEC on Odroid (and many other ARM boxes) is able to switch between HDR/SDR, different resolutions and passthrough all audio codecs. All of which I need for proper media playback in my home theater.

Neat, I might finally be able to use a proper Linux PC as HTPC instead of an Odroid running CoreELEC once HDR switching works.

Bazzite has a version for legacy Nvidia GPUs (including the 10xx series). I would start there.

SteamOS, even if it releases anytime soon, most likely will not support your GPU.

I switched from Fedora KDE to Kinoite a few months ago. Both were 100% stable for me as well.

The main reason I switched to Kinoite is because I’m a digital hoarder and after 5 years or so all my systems are completely trashed with various libraries, 12 different PHP/.NET versions, custom builds and a bazillion Python packages.

In the end it always causes issues like my builds stop working because I have some ancient version of a library stashed away somewhere.

Immutable distros are really easy to return to “factory defaults”. It keeps a list of all the packages that are installed on the system and everything else now goes in Toolboxes, Distroboxes or Docker containers. If I mess up my C++ environment (again) I can just delete that toolbox and start from scratch.

I still manage to bloat my home directory but that is much easier to clean up than looking through all system files.

That’s a shame. Still very cool and much tidier than doing it directly but I thought you could actually pull windows:latest now and get going.

Wait, Docker and Podman can create Windows VMs?

I had winapps setup using QEMU quite a while ago but this seems like a much tidier setup.

But more users need Linux.

If your device supports it, you might want to encode to Opus instead. Opus produces much higher quality files at much smaller file sizes than MP3.

For example, Opus at 128kbps is considered transparent when compared to the source file. You can probably go down to 64-96kbps when its just for playback in your car.

https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended_Settings

As for transcoding them, you might want to check out ffmpegfs: https://github.com/nschlia/ffmpegfs

It can create a “virtual” drive based on your source files and automatically transcodes them when you drag & drop files from there onto your device.