Re: [PLUG] FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread Jason Barbier
> On Feb 12, 2020, at 09:22, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 02/12/2020 09:35 AM, Jason Barbier wrote: >> I know both these miss the disable the wifi point, unless you unload >> the kernel module but the gdp pocket and the Gemini both ship versions >> without cellular modems. > > No cell modem

Re: [PLUG] FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread Brian Stanaland
I'm not sure what the current status is but Purism has a phone that has kill switches for the cell radio. https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:22 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/12/2020 09:35 AM, Jason Barbier wrote: > > I know both these miss the disable the wifi

Re: [PLUG] FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/12/2020 09:35 AM, Jason Barbier wrote: I know both these miss the disable the wifi point, unless you unload the kernel module but the gdp pocket and the Gemini both ship versions without cellular modems. No cell modem would be the minimum. Learning to modify kernel to disable the WiFi

Re: [PLUG] FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: I'll never be called "the great communicator". But my first sentence did specify "...in current production" ;}! And "...standard Linux" was specified to have it adjust to me, *NOT* me adjust to it. Just for giggles I decided to test whether storing

Re: [PLUG] FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/12/2020 08:58 AM, Michael Barnes wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:56 AM Richard Owlett wrote: I've explored this issue in the past without finding something: in current production. meeting my non-negotiable specifications. satisfy enough of my preferences to be a good fit to

Re: [PLUG] FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread Michael Barnes
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:56 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I've explored this issue in the past without finding something: >in current production. >meeting my non-negotiable specifications. >satisfy enough of my preferences to be a good fit to how I do things. > > This is a rewrite of

Re: [PLUG] FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/12/2020 07:59 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to enter/store data while away from home. The data will then be transferred to my laptop via a USB cable. [think a Palm Pilot in a smartphone physical form factor] There are Palm TX and Tungsten E

Re: [PLUG] FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to enter/store data while away from home. The data will then be transferred to my laptop via a USB cable. [think a Palm Pilot in a smartphone physical form factor] There are Palm TX and Tungsten E available on eBay. You can use the pilot-link

[PLUG] FOSS friendly PDA?

2020-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
I've explored this issue in the past without finding something: in current production. meeting my non-negotiable specifications. satisfy enough of my preferences to be a good fit to how I do things. This is a rewrite of some multiple posts to debian-user and adjusting phrasing that caused