when I bought my #pinephone I read all the stuff about “don’t expect the performance to be great” and thought “my current phone is a five year old budget model, I’m used to the performance not being great“. Just went to look at some CPU benchmarks comparing it with that 5 year old budget phone (Moto G5 Plus) and … well, “not great” is a level of understatement that as an Englishman I can only look at in awe.
Six months of on and off (lately mostly off, in all honesty) messing around with it trying to turn it into a usable phone and honestly, for £50 I could get something on ebay that’s four times as fast - having really strong “maybe I picked the wrong path” vibes here today
Made my first application for my #pinephone - a Maidenhead locator display based on current location. Everything made in #GTK4 and #Vala. Programming in Vala was a delight. The barrier to entry is practically nonexistent, and it was really pleasant to use. GTK, however, not so much. Making UIs in XML is a chore. Glade doesn't support GTK4, new designers seem not to be ready yet. I hope to slowly add some more features to it. Grab the source at https://sr.ht/~michalr/hamlocator/ if you want.
