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I was honestly getting really fed up with my #librem5 last week. It's been years now and it wasn't anywhere near as reliable as a phone should be. But then a few days ago a fix for modem-resume-after-suspend was pushed and the difference is night and day! I can finally pull my phone out of my pocket in a high-stress my-kid-throwing-tantrum-in-supermarket-and-I-don't-know-which-dogfood-to-buy situation and know that it will Just Work .
Battery life seems to also have taken a huge leap forward. In fact it's so reliable that it has become boring technology. Gone are the days of gambling on whether I will be able to phone someone. No more homebrew scripts to toggle the usb-bus.
Is this what it feels like to be a #normie?
@samuelnorbury Old school phones went for months! Most people I know still talk about daily charges.
@johnbessa
> Old school phones went for months!
Most didn't, a few Panasonic models with extra large batteries maybe did. On average, if you didn't talk much, you still had to charge them at least weekly.
And the secret technology that old phones used — there wasn't much you could do with them 
Nowadays most people spend hours using their phones, not necessarily for conversations.
@johnbessa
My phone has excellent battery life — it can easily last over 7 days on single charge in standby.
About 4-5 days on average usage. I still charge it every couple of days, although I don't have to, I just feel uncomfortable leaving home with battery less than half charged, and I rarely charge it up to 100%.
@m0xee @samuelnorbury
That's YOU. Not others, YOU! What part of this don't you get?
@johnbessa
What part of what did I not get?
Your statement that old phones could "go for months", implying that modern phones can't do that, is misleading, most old phones couldn't live for months off a single charge, a week sounds more realistic and modern ones can do that too if you have the same usage scenario — mine sure can. And it's not magic, usage patterns got different, devices didn't get inferior. Do we agee on that?
@samuelnorbury
@samuelnorbury what does that mean, where does Battery life stand right now?
@razze here's average usage, graphed.
@samuelnorbury @razze Here's two more examples: https://social.librem.one/@dos/110350126446253600
@samuelnorbury for my pinephone, this was the moment #sxmo switched from X to Wayland. the difference was immediate. battery sife? lasts all day. calling/texting? reliable, finally. i was having doubts about my decision to switch full time to a #pinephone, until that update. i haven't needed to re-flash my phone since
@hamblingreen
Wow! Is this the message I've been waiting for to try my #pinephone again? It has been in a box for too long. What exactly do I flash on it?
@samuelnorbury
@poleguy I hear good things about #postmarketOS on #pinehone, which allows you to install basically all mobile-linux desktop environments. #Sxmo (or swmo?) is one of the options. Maybe @hamblingreen can give better advice.
To be clear: I'm using #Phosh on #PureOS on a completely different piece of hardware.
@samuelnorbury @poleguy yes, pmOS is a great choice as is my prefelred distro arch linux arm. thanks for the clarification on which device you use, i'm super happy to see more #linuxonmobile in the world
@poleguy i currently use #danctnix arch linux ARM with #sxmo installed. it works best for me because 1. i'm already used to arch, 2. the bleeding-edge-ness isn't a problem for me 95% of the time and 3. sxmo is super fast by pinephone standards. i've heard great thing about #postmarketos as well, sxmo's native platform. the biggest draw to sxmo for me is it's minimal power consumption, speed, and simplicity. it's as customizable as any sway desktop while it still "just works" ootb
@samuelnorbury such great news for #linuxmobile which would encourage more to get into the ecosystem.
@mahmoudajawad Certainly! I finally feel like the platform is a valid option for the less technically inclined.
@samuelnorbury
Less technically inclined will likely still need their apps, but this is still a huge step forward!
@mahmoudajawad
@samuelnorbury Are you using the official Byzantium main? Because my modem fails quite often to connect to mobile data after suspend (or takes extremely long). Sometimes I have to use the kill swich to make it work again.
@zwarf I am, and have been experiencing similar behaviour to what you see since I ran updates yesterday. Might be a regression, sadly.
@samuelnorbury Thanks, I just found out that all problems disappeared after removing the SIM-lock.