This is a real concern in today’s day and age, where corporations are encroaching on third spaces, both online and in person.

I’ve had some luck searching for coding clubs on meetup or other group event sites. For example: https://www.meetup.com/code-and-coffee-chicago/ , https://codeandcoffee.org/ , https://www.meetup.com/dearborn-coding-club/ , https://www.meetup.com/nyc-coders/

There are usually developers looking for work who you can talk to in person at these clubs, its a great way to network and get connected with people in the community who are trying to avoid the beaten path!

Weird to put quotes around a word I did not use. Additionally I have not made any presumptions about you or your intelligence. But my post about a project (again, the main point of my post being a project that is not mine) is not a support forum for you not being able to see the bodies of crossposts. Or would you have preferred I copy pasted the post body into a comment for you?

Maybe you didn’t see what the actual problem causing the misunderstanding was but let me clarify it for you:

Alternatively if you don’t prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.

Once you do that, you’ll have the info you were asking for in your initial comment, or, more importantly, you won’t have this misunderstanding with others in the future.

Also, I don’t know how many times I have to type it, my project is ending. I didn’t post this to talk about my project, the goal of this post to raise awareness for a project I have nothing to do with. Your imagined issues with me causing you to not look at the project is only detrimental for you.

Sorry you don’t like how I type I guess?

I found this closed issue: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/1409

Here is an excerpt from that link

This is intentional. In this case, you should tap the crosspost to view full text.

Alternatively if you don’t prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.

Seems like its a setting in the FE, with an, in my opinion, non-sensible default. Might be worth submitting an issue and asking for the default for that setting to be flipped, since it seems to be causing confusion.

Not sure how my comment was at all passive. From my perspective using the default lemmy.zip frontend, I can see the post body, which answered the question you were asking before you had asked it. I clearly stated what I thought you were asking for, mentioned how to find the info and that it was already provided, and then provided the link again. If anything, my comment was aggressive, there was no passivity about it.

Now that I’m aware that some frontends for federated social media do not show the body of crossposts, which I verified by checking the voyager frontend for myself, I went ahead and checked the github for the FE. I found this closed issue: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/1409

Here is an excerpt from that link

This is intentional. In this case, you should tap the crosspost to view full text.

Alternatively if you don’t prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.

Hope that addresses your concerns, which are unrelated to the actual post.

Regardless as I mentioned in the post body, my project is ending, so the main image of the post is just an attention grabber to funnel people towards this project led by a different team. https://github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT

To be slightly more accurate, I wrote “I continued to mess around with a mobile broadband modem, and got it working! With a caveat… it only works when plugged into wall power.”, “it” referring to the mobile broadband modem. Only the usb connected broadband modem requires “wall” power to function, technically it only requires 25W consistently to be provided to the pi5, or some other direct power.

The device is a great little handheld that functions as a full linux computer that works completely on battery power! I bet your landline can’t do that!

But, that’s besides the point! Give the SPIRIT phone project a look on github! https://github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT

If you’re looking for additional context, it would likely be found by reading the previous post which I linked in the post body. Here is the link again: https://lemmy.zip/post/53113975

Edit: But, that’s besides the point! Give the SPIRIT phone project a look on github! https://github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT

Yes, someone from the Linux community asked something similar. Not to steal their comment but they suggested the use of this board to pair with the CM5 https://www.pi-shop.ch/nano-base-board-a-for-raspberry-pi-compute-module-5 In terms of space saving, that would be a big help. But I do like the pi5 for the micro hdmi plugs, it allows the device to be used as both a “phone” and a desktop. So I’ve gotta think about it some more. Thanks for the suggestion!

See that comment here: https://lemmy.zip/post/53113975/22778634

That was actually one of the things I was interested in as well. The pi 5 comes with two micro hdmi ports, which allows the device to be plugged into a monitor and used “as a desktop”. You can even have the device propped up next to the monitor for a dual monitor experience. Some people already use a pi 5 for web browsing or document editing. I can easily imagine people using a single device for both personal home PC use as well as on the go computing and calling, and only having a dedicated device at home for heavy gaming or potentially home server use.

50mmx130mmx82mm I measured it in freeCAD, so it might be a few millimeters off the real thing

I don’t necessarily disagree with you. And people do seem excited about the concept. I’m not even sure I’m far enough along to justify taking in donations though. So far I feel like all I’ve done is compile information that’s already available online into one document. I appreciate your perspective

Sorta copying my comment from another response, but it may answer your question as well: Right now I’m using this “Gravity: CAT1 A7670G Global 4G IoT Communication Module”, connected through USB-C https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2802.html I am able to text reliably using a chat software (it came preinstalled with gnome or KDE, not sure which), and connect to mobile data unreliably using ModemManager and mmcli. I haven’t been able to make a call yet, but I think this is due to a software issue, I’m still trying to get everything working reliably. Once I figure out how to do all of these things reliably, I will add it to the guide in the repo https://codeberg.org/muhammadmanwar/cheaphone

Right now I’m using this “Gravity: CAT1 A7670G Global 4G IoT Communication Module”, connected through USB-C https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2802.html I am able to text reliably using a chat software, and connect to mobile data unreliably using ModemManager and mmcli. I haven’t been able to make a call yet, but I think this is due to a software issue, I’m still trying to get everything working reliably. Once I figure out how to do all of these things, I will add it to the guide in the repo https://codeberg.org/muhammadmanwar/cheaphone

Thanks for the suggestions! I’m not actually looking for any donations though. It probably sounds weird, but I don’t want to derive value from this, or even assign value to it, in the interest of keeping the information as freely accessible as possible. Not too get too ideological, seeking money often causes people to make a good idea bad, or to make a simple process inefficient, to make more money from it. I’m thankfully in a position where I can keep (slowly) working on this project in my free time, while still keeping my head above water.

That isn’t to say that no one else should make money from this idea. I just don’t want to personally.

I do like the idea of a copyleft license. I’ll have to look into it a bit more. Thanks again for your suggestions!

I’m not sure how to add more images to the post, sorry. But I uploaded images to a repo, in the pictures directory. There are also step by step instructions to make one yourself! https://github.com/muhammadmanwar/cheaphone OR https://codeberg.org/muhammadmanwar/cheaphone

I’m not sure how to add more images to the post, sorry. But I uploaded images to a repo, in the pictures directory https://github.com/muhammadmanwar/cheaphone OR https://codeberg.org/muhammadmanwar/cheaphone

This is definitely the angle I’m trying to work. The more people who know how to build these sorts of devices, the more software and hardware will be supported, and standard custom software/hardware pairings can be documented. But we won’t know what works till we try it

This is very much in line with what I was thinking, but I have not had the time to test the theory yet. I’ve also considered potentially adding some sort of clock limited state using a GPIO connected switch, but that definitely sounds harder.

Wow! That does seem really similar to what I’m doing. And they seem further along than I am. I’ll have to look into this project some more. Thank you!

This is a very helpful suggestion, thank you! I have been having some issues figuring out spacing, the battery sticks out like a sore thumb right now, so if this can save me some space I may end up moving in this direction for further prototyping. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestion, I mirrored the repo here: https://codeberg.org/muhammadmanwar/cheaphone

I may end up switching entirely to code berg, but I’ll see how bothersome it is to push changes to both before I fully migrate. Thanks again!