Posts
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (44/2024): Forking Flutter
Progress on libobscura (and, unrelated, Poco F1 camera support), Fedora's Plasma Mobile Spin, a FOSS on Mobile dev room at fosdem 2025, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, various news from postmarketOS and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (43/2024): Go and install Mobile NixOS or Android 15 (glodroid) on your PinePhone!
This past week: Jolla C2 phones arriving and unboxed, more videos on Steam gaming on postmarketOS and postmarketOS on the Pixel 3a, some RISC-V news, Phosh 0.42.1 fixing some bugs, and way more fun things! Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (42/2024): Pushy Cameras
Details on postmarketOS gitlab move, (somewhat) working back camera on Pixel 3a landing in postmarketOS, a UBports Q&A, news on Unified Push by KDE, PureOS Crimson progess, a FuriOS update, and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (41/2024): Successful moves and XMPP calling
This Week: postmarketOS moved to their own gitlab, a new app for XMPP calls, Plasma 6.2 bringing Alpine apks to Discover, improved Kirigami Addons, news from the GNOME Foundation, updates to user0's Mobile Friendly Firefox customizations and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (40/2024): Phosh 0.'Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything'.0
postmarketOS reports progress and moves to self-hosted gitlab instance, another Ubuntu Touch Q&A, a plethora of blog posts worth reading, fwupd 2.0, KDE app progress, PINE64 is still alive, a quaterly update by LinuxPhoneApps.org, and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (39/2024): ARM Gaming Edition
Another week has almost passed, here's what happened: postmarketOS shares plans for adding systemd and immutability (and what they've accomplished in September), a Sailfish OS community roundup, a Newsletter by UBports, some progress on working phone calls on the PinePhone Pro, Akademy talks uploaded on PeerTube, Valve seemingly invested in Proton on ARM platforms, and more!
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Augmenting my postmarketOS installs with my own Alpine repos
To finally have a post that isn't the weekly MobilePOSIX fun ride, let's share some experiences. This is likely quite wrong and not the right way, so don't take this as a how-to.
They say you should always learn the tools first, as it makes things easier. This is true. But in my reality I often find myself at a point where I am in a "I want to do this now" or "I've got 30 minutes, how far can I get in that time?" situation, and I have to decide between: "Can I half-ass this somehow, or is it just impossible right now?".