Post by @anthk@neopaquita.es

2026-03-29 11:49 UTC

@CyReVolt@mastodon.social nearly usable with bigger onscreen keyboard fonts. Also, I'd love to run fictools (frotz and the like) on that with Tristam Island :D It's impossible to chord too; most of it would have been to be redesigned with sticky menus and just use the menu items to cut/snarf/paste/send and the like. At last until a Bluetooth stack gets designed. And I'd love ath9k drivers from OBSD being ported first as I have no troubles using 9front in both a 64 bit Celeron and a 32 bit n270 netbook with physical input.

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@sirjofri@pleroma.envs.net 2026-03-30 08:19

@anthk Bigger fonts would be needed, yes, and I believe we need a completely different UI for a phone (or a touchscreen in general). Right now, we can use the physical buttons to fake MMB and RMB, but no chording. The UI is a challenge, because I don't just want to copy-paste existing UIs that resemble android or iOS. Those aren't bad designs, but there's so much potential in Plan 9's experience that I'd like to have in the UI, for example the plumber and some text based stuff. Afaik, the USB OTG works, so with some hub you can connect mouse and keyboard, but it's not reliable. If the connection breaks, you have to reboot the device. @driusan correct me if I'm wrong. The biggest issue on my device right now is probably the battery. The axp803 doesn't recognize it fully, so it can't be charged and it doesn't start the modem and a few other components. It shows a percentage, at least. @CyReVolt

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