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Riding horses, hacking computers, phones and smartwatch.
So... megapixels now record video and audio. That's not quite same as movie, but we'll get there.
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@sesivany @RezzaBuh Is there video recording somewhere?
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@neil @cas Closed and undocumented is part of a problem. That each phone is very different. PCs are, well, IBM PC clones, which means they are rather compatible with each other. Phones are not :-(.
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@dcz That's actually a nice hack :-).
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@neil @cas Unfortunately, PCs have working hw abstraction (you can just pretend it is VGA+IDE) and working BIOS/EC (so your battery charges even with no OS). Phones are just different :-(.
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@neil @cas The goalposts are moving :-(. First it was cellphone, than it had to take photos, and now I'd like fingerrint reader, too...
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@geert @bontchev What if your backdoor improves performance? Well... that happened in about Pentium Pro era. And we still don't know what to do with that. Its called "caches" and "speculation" and it leads to very hard to fix information leaks, aka Spectre and Meltdown (and others yet to be discovered) :-(. Too bad it probably was not intentional backdoor.
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Ok, so now I have something that could allow video recording in Megapixels 2... in future :-).
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After two-rounds of fighting, got Megapixels 2 to work. I already ported my video changes to v1.6.1, so now lets do it again ;-).
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@ljs @oleksandr @ptesarik Sure there's a lot more. Plus, you need to deliver the payloads, and launching ICBMs is, literally, rocket science :-).
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@cas Give me reliable calls/sms in device of about 100g, and I'll be very happy. Or give me camera and I'll carry op6 ... as a camera :-).
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@ptesarik @oleksandr @ljs Plutium in the cores needs to be taken out every few years and reprocessed. That's not a two-week task, AFAIK.

And in the scenarios we are thinking about (and that would be very bad even if they worked out "good"), they would have 30 minutes of warning, not two weeks :-).
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@cas I got oneplus 6 because it looks like it will be very useful in future. I broke the android (still would like to recover the recovery and possibly android distro, too; plus the two red warnings during boot are annoying), tried Mobian and found Droidian was way better then expected.

My daily driver is Motorola Droid 4 with triple-boot. OnePlus is just physically too big ("incompatible with my horse").

I'd really like to see at least one camera to work. Fingerprint reader would be interesting. I'd really like to be able to power it down for storage (currently that does not work).

I still won't daily drive it -- would need bigger horse for that :-).
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@jlcrawf @techsaviours @lolgzs @Lioh @justin Ok, so that is a big difference to PinePhone. Its battery life is not great, but I estimate it can do 48 hours in such a light use.
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@Natasha_Jay I take that back. This is highway=track, tracktype=4, IIRC.
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@Natasha_Jay Everyone knows this should be highway=path :-).
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@martijnbraam So... I'm trying to get megapixels to work. 1.6.1 works for me, latest 2.x does not. I have made issue on gitlab. Eventually, my goal is to get video recording to work.
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@oleksandr @lkundrak @ljs Yes, playing mad (or being mad) has advantages. But giving madman what he wants is also not a solution... Basically ignore Putler's words, they are lies, anyway.
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@ljs @oleksandr (Oh and for the record -- and this is quite dangerous thought -- it is unclear if Russia's nukes are still working. You know, they are quite hard to maintain. I would not be surprised if they had 50% failure rate or more. But... this is probably better left untested).
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@ljs @oleksandr Yes, any military target should be ok. Rules of war should still be respected.
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