Zworf@beehaw.org 7 months ago
To be honest I don’t really care about this at all.
I also owned an S8 which I used for years until they dropped support way too early. It’s been my best phone ever. I have an S23 now (which was a unique chance to get a real Snapdragon in a Samsung here in Europe). It’s smoother but I’m not sure if it will be acceptable to you.
I still loved my S8 more though. With its 3,5mm jack, Notification LED, flat camera (nothing sticking out), curved display and higher resolution than the S23 has today.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I have an S22 ultra and still miss my S8+. I like having a stylus, but I don’t use it a ton. My S8 still runs, but the screen is pretty jacked and the battery life is non-existent. Thinking about turning it into an Octoprint server so I can use my Pi for something else
Zworf@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Yeah there was actually a Samsung reuse-for-IoT program for old hardware.
Unfortunately it was really dumb and you could only use your phone for a few usecases blessed by our Samsung overlords. As far as I remember you could use the phone as a light sensor or something which was terrible overkill.
It wasn’t anything like postmarketos. It’s been deprecated or killed off silently too in the last few years.
Unfortunately the S8 are hardly supported by AOSP distros. Lineage only supported the S7, S9 and S10 (the latter two it supports still) but the S8 was never on the radar somehow. Postmarket doesn’t support it either. The only distros I found were a few once-off images (so no updates whatsoever) on XDA-Developers, with lots of things non-working.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Ah, that sucks. Fortunately for my use, Octoprint runs on the stock phone just fine. It can even use the phone camera for print monitoring.
Zworf@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Oh octoprint is available as an Android app? Sorry I wasn’t aware.