LINux on MOBile - ConvergenceLINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.Zola2023-07-19T15:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/tags/convergence/feed.xmlState of the Droidian Project2023-07-19T15:00:00+00:002023-07-19T15:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/droidian-project/<div style="padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:10px;">
<strong>Droidian</strong> is a Linux distribution based on <strong>Debian</strong> that is meant to run on Android-based devices. To accomplish this, it employs technologies such as <strong>Halium</strong> and <strong>libhybris</strong>.
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There are a few Linux distributions available for Android devices right now, but they all have drawbacks that Droidian addresses. For example, <strong>Ubuntu Touch</strong> and <strong>SailfishOS</strong> feature a lot of old software in their stack. While mainline distributions like <strong>Mobian</strong> and <strong>PostmarketOS</strong> exist, they aren't very useable, with many of them lacking essential features on recent/modern consumer devices. Except for a few mainline phones, this is the current situation of mainline distributions and devices. Droidian resolves this issue by modifying the downstream linux kernel given by the device's vendor. In most circumstances, security fixes from kernel.org or other sources can still be applied to downstream kernels.
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Droidian supports <strong>Phosh Shell</strong> (made by Purism), as well as <strong>Cutie Shell</strong>, which is being developed as part of a community effort. The project has progressed to the point where most phone functions are available and operational, including capabilities such as camera support, NFC, and fingerprint readers, which are rarely functioning on mainstream Linux phones. The current stable images are built on Debian bookworm, with Trixie hosting a development branch.
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More info about the project, list of devices, update blog posts and our social media groups can be found <a href="https://droidian.org/">in our website</a>
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The project's purpose is to provide a current and useable Debian system pre-installed or user flashable on phones and tablets. While Droidian is officially available for 18 devices and another 7 unofficially, community members have booted Droidian on a large number of devices. Droidian porting is a simple yet time-consuming procedure that is primarily described by maintainers and contributors in our <strong>Telegram</strong> and <strong>Matrix</strong> communities.
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<video src="https://media.linmob.net/2023-07-19-droidian-project/droidian-fpd.mp4" alt="Droidian fingerprint" style="width:33%;height:auto;margin:0" controls></video>
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Consider joining our community and installing or porting your device! We also invite Linux desktop users to join the project.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (11/2023): Pocket Reforms and Other Improvements2023-03-19T22:10:00+00:002023-03-19T22:10:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-11-2023/<p>Libadwaita 1.3, new unofficial Ubuntu Touch builds, Matrix support in Chatty, improvements to GNOME Software on Alpine and more!</p>
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<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="hardware">Hardware</h3>
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<li><a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform">MNT Pocket Reform | Crowd Supply</a> - it's not only available for funding, it's already made the threshold!</li>
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<h3 id="software-progress">Software progress</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">GNOME ecosystem</h4>
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<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/03/twig-87/">#87 Editable Shortcuts</a></li>
<li>alexm: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2023/03/17/libadwaita-1-3/">Libadwaita 1.3</a></li>
<li>tchx84: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2023/03/15/portfolio-0-9-15/">Portfolio 0.9.15</a></li>
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<h4 id="plasma-ecosystem">Plasma ecosystem </h4>
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<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/03/17/this-week-in-kde-more-wayland-fixes/">This week in KDE: “More Wayland fixes”</a></li>
<li>KDE Announcements: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.3/">KDE Plasma 5.27.3, Bugfix Release for March</a></li>
<li>Theophile: <a href="https://theophile.gilgien.net/posts/blog-sok/">My experience taking part in Season of KDE</a></li>
<li>KDE Eco: <a href="https://eco.kde.org/blog/2023-03-15-sok23-kde-eco_be/">Adapting Standard Usage Scenario Scripts For KDE Applications: My Journey As A Season Of KDE Mentee</a></li>
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<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
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<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/ook37/pinephone-pro-debos/-/releases">Releases · Oren Klopfer / PinePhone + PinePhone Pro UBTouch Image Builder · GitLab</a> <em>Focal for both, PinePhone and PinePhone Pro!</em></li>
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<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
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<li>Breaking updates in pmOS edge: <a href="https://postmarketos.org/edge/2023/03/13/alpine-arm-builders-gone/">Alpine's ARM builders are temporarily unavailable</a></li>
<li>Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: <a href="https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/phosh/releases/tag/beta30">Beta 30</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12-Hard-Freeze">Debian 12 "Bookworm" Enters Its Hard Freeze</a></li>
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<h4 id="non-linux">Non-Linux</h4>
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<li>Lup Yuen: <a href="https://github.com/lupyuen/pinephone-nuttx-usb#power-on-the-usb-controller">GitHub - lupyuen/pinephone-nuttx-usb: PinePhone USB Driver for Apache NuttX RTOS</a></li>
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<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
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<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/03/17/this-week-in-matrix-2023-03-17">This Week in Matrix 2023-03-17</a></li>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/03/15/the-dma-stakeholder-workshop-interoperability-between-messaging-services">The DMA Stakeholder Workshop: Interoperability between messaging services</a></li>
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<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
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<li>feborg: <a href="https://feborg.es/register-for-linux-app-summit-2023/">Register for Linux App Summit 2023!</a> <em>I'll likely will only be able to attend virtually, but you should totally go if you can!</em></li>
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<li><a href="https://freeradical.zone/@craftyguy/110014942107339916">Clayton: "Hello again #postmarketOS edge users! [...] Quite often I was burning through my mobile data cap <em>much</em> quicker than normal, because a lot of traffic was being routed over mobile data... despite being connected to a perfectly fine, unmetered wifi network.…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linuxphoneapps@linuxrocks.online/110023687517501631">LinuxPhoneApps.org: "Right now, we're (cautiously) working towards moving to individual markdown files as "source of truth" for app listings (instead of .csv). Many things need to be considered. Please chime in! …"</a> <em>Especially regarding snaps and ratings!</em></li>
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<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
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<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/toward-matrix-support-in-chats-part-2/">Toward Matrix support in Chats – Part 2</a></li>
<li>Linux Phone Guides: <a href="https://linuxphoneguides.ovh/index.php/2023/03/18/librem-5-a-to-z/">Librem 5: A to Z</a></li>
<li>fossphones.com: <a href="https://fossphones.com/03-17-23.html">Linux Phone News - March 17, 2023</a></li>
<li>Pablo Yoyoista: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/pabloyoyoista/2023/03/05/gs-and-pmos-a-bumpy-road/">GNOME Software and postmarketOS: a bumpy road – GNOME adventures in mobile</a> <em>Great work!</em></li>
<li>Laoblog: <a href="https://blog.libero.it/Laoblog2/16586542.html">Pinephone review: Ubuntu Touch</a> <em>Nitpick: No need to be in denial and stick to xenial, see above!</em></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/desktop-apps-on-the-lapdock/">Desktop Apps on the Lapdock</a></li>
<li>Hamblingreen: <a href="https://hamblingreen.com/2023/03/11/nexdock-first-impressions.html">Nexdock First Impressions</a></li>
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<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
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<li>postmarketOS Podcast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/29-GNOME-Software-apk-get-your-patches-merged-pbsplash/">#29 GNOME Software + apk, get your patches merged, pbsplash</a></li>
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<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
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<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xny14NajI0">Desktop Apps on the Lapdock</a></li>
<li>Canal do Lukita: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEq3BXlr7ZE">Linux Phone - Ubuntu Touch - The best mobile OS</a></li>
<li>CyberPunked: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObKTkecPcqA">Droidian (Mobian / Debian for Android) - Google Pixel 3a (2023-03-15)</a></li>
<li>Sailfish official: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKJLQ4fQdKc">Xperia 5 droidian os and waydroid 11</a></li>
<li>Scientific Perspective: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP8D_xW3XhM">postmarketOS | Linux 6.2.0</a></li>
<li>emde: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH3LuE05lTM">Ephemeral messaging</a> <em>Impressive!</em></li>
<li>Eric Lovejoy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9j6mGfayxY">opencv4 on pinephone pro drawing circles on level and perpendicular using iio bus accelerometer.</a></li>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://tilvids.com/w/6zPrN76odWPdsj94wCJeUf">PINE64 Quarterly Community Q&A</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9_nOjAtsmw">YouTube</a></li>
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<h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>
<p>Huge thanks again to Plata for <a href="https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io/-/merge_requests/5">the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speeds up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
<h3 id="something-missing-want-to-contribute">Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
<p>If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into <a href="https://pad.hacc.space/7yCLy5a9QyOLWusIFiTt9A?edit">the hedgedoc pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) <strong>If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>
Convergent Windows for KDE Plasma2023-02-11T15:00:00+00:002023-02-11T15:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/convergent-windows-for-kde-plasma/<p>KDE Plasma windows work well on large screens and can also be tailored for mobile devices.
But what if an external screen is connected to a mobile device?</p>
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<p>When used on the desktop, Plasma windows have window decorations with titlebar buttons and can be resized and moved around.
With <a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasma-phone-settings">Plasma Phone Settings</a>, the windows do not have window
decorations and are always maximized. This makes perfect sense on small mobile screens and is exactly what you would expect in
Plasma Mobile.</p>
<p>However, if an external screen is connected to the mobile device, you will want to use it in desktop mode (i.e. convergence).
There is an idea to add a specific setting in Plasma Mobile to <a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-mobile/-/issues/231">toggle convergence mode</a>.</p>
<p>I thought to myself "there must be a way to achieve this automatically" and here it is:</p>
<p>**drumroll**</p>
<p><a href="https://store.kde.org/p/1985909/">Convergent Windows</a> is a KWin script which</p>
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<li>removes window decorations and maximizes windows on the first screen (i.e. mobile device)</li>
<li>shows window decorations and generally uses the default behavior on all other screens (i.e. external screens)</li>
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<p>Currently, there's a known limitation with GTK apps: Some GTK apps draw the titlebar buttons inside the window. Those are still visible even if the window decorations are removed.</p>
<p>Convergent Windows can be used with both Plasma Desktop and Plasma Mobile. Note, however, that distributions which provide
Plasma Mobile images install also Plasma Phone Settings. This might overrule the desired behavior.</p>
Weekly Update (10/2022): Squeekboard gets a new look, Nheko 0.9.2, Dirty Pipes and Tow-Boot being released for PinePhone and PinePhone Pro2022-03-11T22:05:00+00:002022-03-11T22:05:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-10-2022/<p>There's some good news and some bad news. Dirty Pipe is not a fun vulnerability, and our GNU/Linux Phones have new enough kernels to be vulnerable. At least that new Spectre variant does not affect Cortex A53 phones - having in-order cores only is not always disadvantageous.</p>
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<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="hardware-enablement">Hardware enablement</h3>
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<li>Danct12 has ported postmarketOS to the original <a href="https://fosstodon.org/web/@danct12/107913613391915684">Snapdragon 835 variant of the Fxtec Pro1</a>.</li>
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<h3 id="software-news">Software news</h3>
<h4 id="security">Security</h4>
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<li>ArsTechnica: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/linux-has-been-bitten-by-its-most-high-severity-vulnerability-in-years/">Dirty Pipe - Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years</a>.</li>
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<h4 id="firmware">Firmware</h4>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/releases/tag/release-2021.10-004">Tow-Boot 2021.10-004: Now more mobile</a> has been released, supporting the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro among many other ARM devices. <em>The great thing about Tow-Boot is that it supports <a href="https://arm-software.github.io/ebbr/index.html#document-chapter2-uefi">EBBR</a>, which basically means Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and thus standardized booting on your phone.</em></li>
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<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">GNOME ecosystem</h4>
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<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/merge_requests/531">Squeekboard 1.17 has been released</a>, featuring an updated visual design among other things.</li>
<li>Marcus Lundblad: <a href="https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2022/03/maps-and-gnome-42.html">Maps and GNOME 42</a>.</li>
<li>GNOME: <a href="https://feborg.es/gsoc-2022-gnome-accepted/">GSoC 2022: GNOME Foundation has been accepted as a mentor organization!</a>.</li>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/03/twig-34/">#34 No Backup No Mercy</a>.</li>
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<h4 id="plasma-maui-ecosystem">Plasma/Maui ecosystem</h4>
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<li>KDE has been <a href="https://twitter.com/kdecommunity/status/1501165761498427394">accepted into GSoC</a>, <a href="https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2022/Ideas">these are potential projects</a>.</li>
<li>KDE Eco: <a href="https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-05-energy-conservation-day/">Celebrate Energy Conservation Day With KDE Eco</a>. <em>Preserving energy also has benefits for resource constrained mobile devices. ;-)</em></li>
<li>Tsdgeos: <a href="https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2022/03/okular-signature-support-now-works-on.html">Okular: Signature support now works on Android</a>.</li>
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<h4 id="other-app-releases">Other app releases</h4>
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<li>Nheko (Matrix client) <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@deepbluev7/107929186750640828">have released 0.9.2</a>. <em>Message bubbles!</em></li>
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<h4 id="distro-releases">Distro releases</h4>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/plasma-mobile/releases/tag/beta11">Manjaro ARM with Plasma Mobile Beta 11</a> has been released.</li>
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<h4 id="sailfish-os">Sailfish OS</h4>
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<li>flypig: <a href="https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-10-march-mwc-barcelona/10607/1">Sailfish Community News, 10 March, MWC Barcelona</a></li>
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<h4 id="ubports">UBports</h4>
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<li>UBports news: <a href="https://ubports.com/de/blog/ubports-blogs-nachrichten-1/post/your-biweekly-ubports-news-during-troubled-times-3838">Your biweekly UBports news during troubled times!</a>. <em>Ubuntu Touch OTA 22, JingPad images and more.</em></li>
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<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
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<li>If you like minimal setups, <a href="https://retro.social/@kelbot/107929432214057801.">you'll like what kelbot came up with #PineDA</a></li>
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<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="tow-boot">Tow-Boot</h4>
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<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/booting-arm-linux-the-standard-way/">Booting ARM Linux the standard way</a>.</li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Tow-Boot-2021.10-004">Tow-Boot Sees New Release As User-Friendly U-Boot Distribution</a>.</li>
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<h4 id="developer-tools">Developer Tools</h4>
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<li>Janet Blackquill: <a href="https://blog.blackquill.cc/new-tools-in-the-qml-lsp-collection-qml-dap-qml-dbg-and-qml-lint">New tools in the QML LSP collection: qml-dap, qml-dbg, and qml-lint</a>.</li>
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<h4 id="convergence">Convergence</h4>
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<li>Kyle Rankin for Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/">My First Year of Librem 5 Convergence</a>. <em>Nice report! I wish Purism would enable zram by default.</em></li>
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<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
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<li>PineTalk: <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2022/03/06/s02e06-pinetalk-the-community-has-been-active/">Episode 6: The Community has been ACTIVE!</a></li>
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<h3 id="potentially-worth-watching">Potentially Worth watching<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup></h3>
<h4 id="pinephone-pro-initial-impressions">PinePhone Pro Initial Impressions</h4>
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<li>Jacob David Cunningham: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUS52Lfekdo">Pinephone Pro Explorer Edition first couple of days</a>.</li>
<li>Bitter Epic Skits: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-ma7lTIc0">PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition UNBOXING. I finally have it!</a>.</li>
<li>Canadian Bitcoiners: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aA5atAgzmM">PinePhone Pro Unboxing - The Ultimate Privacy Phone Is Here?</a>. <em>Just a word regarding the title: It's a phone meant to run Linux, that's still in the process of hardware enablement. Yes, GNU/Linux is less spyware ridden than other operating systems, but does this make the PinePhone Pro a "privacy smartphone"? You can probably make it one, but we're not there yet.</em></li>
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<h4 id="security-tutorial">Security Tutorial</h4>
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<li>(RTP) Privacy Tech Tips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMGYtgPvwYI">🔒 Lynis Scanner: Linux Hardening</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
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<li>CyberPunked: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4WkjUkHUzw">Ubuntu Touch Installation - OnePlus 3 - Android 9 Downgrade</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="something-missing">Something missing?</h3>
<p>If your projects' cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please get in touch via social media or email!</p>
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<p>Sadly I did not have time to watch any of the longer videos in here this week. So... have fun!</p>
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LinBits 40: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 14)2021-04-11T21:36:00+00:002021-04-11T21:36:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits40-weekly-linux-phone-news-week14/<p><em>It's sunday. Now what happened since last sunday?</em></p>
<p>A new postmarketOS Tweak tool, Shortwave 2.0, JingOS on Smartphones and more! <em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="software-development-and-releases">Software development and releases</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos-tweaks">postmarketOS Tweaks</a> has been <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS/106038361436651318">unveiled</a>, a GNOME Tweaks like app for postmarketOS. <em>This is great, and I hope that other distributions follow and add a few more features like e.g. scaling.</em></li>
<li>Felix Häcker: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/haeckerfelix/2021/04/09/new-shortwave-release/">New Shortwave release</a>. <em>I already updated the LINMOBapps listing.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>FOSS2go: <a href="https://foss2go.com/lg-will-open-the-source-code-of-their-phones-petition/">LG will open the source code of their phones? [Petition]</a>. <em>LG have announced that they will be leaving the smartphone market, this petition asks them to not turn their phones into e-waste.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Mobian blog: <a href="https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2021/04/08/road-to-mobian-1/">The road to the Mobian Community Edition (part 1)</a>. <em>Looking forward to part 2!</em></li>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/video-linux-based-tablet-operating-system-jingos-is-coming-to-phones/">Video: Linux-based tablet operating system JingOS is coming to phones</a>. <em>This is, as JingOS in general, quite interesting. It's still early days, no portrait mode yet. If you're interested in more on JingOS, make sure to watch this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_RVVTMzKYE">great video</a>.</em>
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<li>OMG!Ubuntu: <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/04/jingos-linux-phone-video-demo">Is a JingOS Linux Phone Coming? This Video Hints at the Possibility</a>. <em>Joey's take.</em></li>
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</li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-news-summary-march-2021/">Librem 5 News Summary: March 2021</a>. <em>A lot of progress. Sadly nothing definitive on future deliveries, yet.</em></li>
<li>Gamey: <a href="https://odysee.com/@gamey:c/5-best-pinephone-apps:3">5 amazing PINEPHONE& Librem5 Apps [DanctNIX Arch ARM]</a>. <em>Nice post about 5 actually great apps!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>PineTalk <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/04/10/006-pine-for-you/">006: Pine for You</a> <em>Ezra and I made another one of these. I hope listening is as much fun as is making it. And please ask a few questions or give us other food for thought we can discuss!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qB_5g2ZJYk">The Simplicity of Making Librem 5 Apps</a>. <em>This is why I am so excited for Linux phones.</em></li>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_QuQKhEVRA">postmarketOS tweaks GTK app</a>. <em>Nifty app!</em></li>
<li>Calling All Platforms Tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l6f5Sngk58">PinePhone Review</a>. <em>Nice review.</em></li>
<li>Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://odysee.com/@RTP:9/pinephone-demo-create-a-hidden-encrypted:1">Pinephone/Linux Security: Create A Hidden Encrypted Volume Inside A Video File Using ZuluCrypt</a>. <em>Nice idea! Now the PinePhone only needs proper video recording, so that this is more plausible. ;-)</em></li>
<li>Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/e1de5c42-e7c6-4b7d-aaf7-d7a3f415f085">Linux Lesson: Bash Scripting: Taking Input/Output, Variables, Pipes, Background + Automatic Upgrades</a>. <em>Not super phone related, but totally warranted and a great resource.</em></li>
<li>E. Matt Armstrong: PinePhone Arch Distro Spin <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mif8Pco96w">Part 2 Apps and Usage</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUsABNqy5Xk">Part 3 yay the AUR helper</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE-tm8XwZbQ">Part 4 Installing from the AUR</a>. <em>Great to see <a href="https://linmob.net/2020/09/05/pinephone-building-plasma-mobile-apps-from-the-aur.html">old tutorial posts</a> being used!</em> </li>
<li>Sk4zZi0uS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT4FWoV5U2E">PinePhone Challenge 1 week update (software I use, tricks and fanboying) - 2021-04-08</a>. <em>I did not manage to watch the entirety of this, but I must say that it's brave to choose Plasma Mobile at this point in my most honest opinion. I guess I need to go back to it and see how it is these days.</em></li>
<li>JingOS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsEd3-O8fR8">Developer Update | JingOS v0.6 first boot demo on a smartphone</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MIjCV1VU4E">Developer Update | First Multimedia demo on JingOS ARM smartphone</a>. <em>That device reminds me a lot of the Gigaset GS290 I have, but I've seen plenty other devices using similar looking screens. Most likely they are using a Unisoc SoC here, too, which likely is a clear hint at a vendor kernel/libhybris based stack.</em></li>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCpma7A-TjI">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 98</a>. <em>Another Q&A, I bet it's interesting—sadly I did not manage to watch it yet.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>None, sorry. </p>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<ul>
<li>I switched back to DanctNIX, this time <a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/archarm-mobile-fde-installer">full disk encrypted</a>, after managing to blow up my pmOS distribution on an upgrade.</li>
<li>I've played with <a href="https://social.librem.one/@dos/106047622392779252">Librem 5 convergence running PureOS Byzantium</a>, and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/106047443542616337">had to fool around with Plasma</a>.</li>
<li>I've also started working on migrating this blog over to <a href="https://getzola.org">Zola</a>, another static site generator. I hope to be done with that before May.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>I added three apps to LINMOBapps, so that we have a total of 249 apps right now: postmarketOS Tweaks (see above); Public Transport, a public transport companion for Germany; and Simple Diary, a markdown-supporting diary app. <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">See here what (else) happened</a>. Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/tasks.md">do contribute</a>! </p>
LinBits 19: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 46)2020-11-15T10:30:00+00:002020-11-15T10:30:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits19-weekly-linux-phone-news-week46/<p><em>It's sunday. Now what happened since last sunday?</em></p>
<p>New distribution releases, JumpDrive 0.6, a bigger battery for the Librem 5, Linux App Summit talks, Plasma Mobile's October Update and more. <em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="software-releases-and-improvements">Software releases and improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases">Arch Linux ARM/DanctNIX Mobile has seen another release</a>. Most notable is that they clock the RAM lower now by default, so if you have had crashes previously while trying this distribution, you can now try it again.</li>
<li><a href="https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-beta2-with-phosh-pinephone/36766">Manjaro have released Phosh beta 2</a>, <a href="https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/storage/pinephone/phosh/">downloads</a>. </li>
<li>Also, if you have not been updating your <a href="https://www.mobian-project.org/">Mobian</a> install in a while, because you <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mobian/105148135200374744">read about possible breakage</a>: [You can apparently upgrade it now again(https://social.librem.one/@chrichri/105204574174115135). If you broke your install, current builds should be fine for starting over.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="hardware-announcements">Hardware announcements</h3>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>FOSSphones: <a href="https://fossphones.com/why-are-linux-phones-so-important/">Why Are Linux Phones So Important</a>. <em>Nice read!</em></li>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/pine64-flashing-tool-jumpdrive-adds-support-for-pinetab-and-3gb-pinephone/">JumpDrive OS flashing tool now supports PineTab and 3GB PinePhone</a>. <em>It kind of did before, but now there is a new release.</em></li>
<li>Plasma Mobile: <a href="https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/11/12/plasma-mobile-update-october.html">Plasma Mobile update: October 2020</a>. <em>Impressive update. I am really looking forward to all this to stabilize.</em>
<ul>
<li>Tux Phones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/plasma-mobile-linux-mobile-desktop-status-end-2020/">⚡ Plasma Mobile gets major UI improvements, several bugfixes</a>. <em>Raffaele's summary of the above.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-4500mah-battery-upgrade/">Librem 5 4500mAh Battery Upgrade</a>. <em>This is great news. The phone can allegedly now last a work day in idle, not in suspend, which solves all these “Does it wake up fast enough when a call comes in” <a href="https://twitter.com/ManjaroLinux/status/1327614609826648066#m">problems that exist with suspend on the PinePhone</a>. Sure, in a way it’s a hack, but it’s a good one in my opinion.</em>
<ul>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/purism-upgrades-the-librem-5-linux-phone-battery-to-4500-mah-ahead-of-shipping/">Purism upgrades the Librem 5 Linux phone battery to 4,500 mAh ahead of shipping</a>. <em>Brad's take on the topic mentioned above.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Gamey: <a href="https://lbry.tv/@gamey:c/Pinephone-Liri-Apps:c">Pinephone: Liri App Collection. Browser, Text, Terminal, Files / ArchLinux ARM PhoshPinephone: Liri App Collection. Browser, Text, Terminal, Files / ArchLinux ARM Phosh</a>. <em>Interesting post if you ever wondered about using Liri apps on your PinePhone.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Avisando: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of2I3cRY3VI">PinePhone "Desktop mode" Phosh Manjaro</a>. <em>Awesome video!</em></li>
<li>Avisando: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geQf_CUlZzI">PinePhone - Pogo Pins</a>. <em>If you ever wondered about the Pogo Pins, maybe this video helps.</em></li>
<li>BitBooger: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H-AIH0i1qY">How to install (flash) Mobian on (to) your PinePhone!</a>. <em>Great video, glad that someone takes on the "How to" business for everyday PinePhone chores. Unfortunately, there are few mistakes made, but I tried to point those out in the comments.</em></li>
<li>GeoTech Land: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nETF1jrxOP4">Ubuntu Touch OTA-14 & Pinephone Update</a>. <em>Nice update!</em></li>
<li>Liliputing/Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBtYVE6k_-s">PinePhone: KDE Neon with Plasma UI</a>. <em>It's rough.</em></li>
<li>Jaquen hgar: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccnaPEokZUg">PinePhone Ubuntu Touch - Hands On</a>. <em>This a german video detailing the current state of Ubuntu Touch on the PinePhone.</em></li>
<li>Pako St: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6eL1_RBqk">OBS on Manjaro ARM from Pinebook Pro test capture of PinePhone</a>. <em>ARM Linux in action!</em></li>
<li>Prawnboy SG: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ja9LGd3X4">Running Arch Phosh on Pinephone</a>. <em>I am glad that ArchLinuxARM comes with less apps preinstalled. Still, nice to see how well it performs if you really decide install everything you can think of.</em></li>
<li>Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf64kPxs2Tk">Pinephone Signal Messenger Clone: Axolotl- What Works + Screenshots</a>. <em>A follow up to last weeks video, sadly without video of Axolotl running.</em></li>
<li>Tech Show MX: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuLV6JiJjGg">Manjaro ARM Beta 2 con Phosh en PinePhone</a>. <em>If you speak spanish, you are going to enjoy this one.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="manjaro-pinephone-unboxings">Manjaro PinePhone Unboxings</h4>
<ul>
<li>Elatronion: <a href="https://lbry.tv/@Elatronion:a/pinephone-manjaro:2">Pinephone Manjaro Edition: The Perfect Phone for Nerds</a>. <em>This is a really nice video, watch it, even if you usually don't care about unboxings.</em></li>
<li>Bitbooger: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2zBBbjdxRY">Unboxing the Pinephone Manjaro CE and checking out basic things</a>.</li>
<li>MTS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yvn0sHH1co">PinePhone64 smartphone - unboxing and first thoughts (aka Part 1)</a>.</li>
<li>Terminal_Heat_Sink: <a href="https://youtu.be/YbEI2hvzCKk">Unboxing and First Look at PinePhone Manjaro Convergence Package Limited Edition Linux Smartphone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linux-app-summit">Linux App Summit</h4>
<ul>
<li>Umang Jain: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm66MPVwec4">Libcamera: Making complex cameras easy!</a>, <a href="https://conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/1/contributions/6/attachments/1/2/Libcamera-umang-jain.pdf">Slides</a>. <em>If you care about reducing camera complexity on Linux systems, you are going to like this.</em></li>
<li>Dalton Durst: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt1U677h5kY">Brickless battery saving with Ubuntu Touch</a>, <a href="https://daltondur.st/las2020/">blog post</a>. <em>Great talk by Dalton that really <strong>everyone</strong> who cares about Linux Phones should watch!</em></li>
<li>Also check their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjSsbz2TDxIxBEarbDzNQ4w">YouTube channel</a> many more videos on App Stream, Flatpak and Flutter that may be interesting.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<p>I made three videos:</p>
<ul>
<li>Manjaro Plasma Mobile on the PinePhone: Convergence (Dev build 201107): <a href="https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/1d7249d4-e577-4c8c-9f64-74855792f019">PeerTube</a>, <a href="https://lbry.tv/@linmob:3/manjaro-plasma-mobile-on-the-pinephone:e">LBRY</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgEnSd5w4cQ">YouTube</a>. I am going to make a similar video with Plasma Mobile running on postmarketOS Edge next week.</li>
<li>Sxmo: Simple X Mobile on PinePhone: <a href="https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/91c96859-0a65-401a-bc11-8aa0645ea676">PeerTube</a>, <a href="https://lbry.tv/@linmob:3/sxmo-simple-x-mobile-on-pinephone:5">LBRY</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0-JatWCDuo">YouTube</a>. </li>
<li>slem.os: OpenSUSE on the PinePhone: <a href="https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/ee924f40-b82e-435d-ac4a-70dd7e6bdfc2">PeerTube</a>, <a href="https://lbry.tv/@linmob:3/slem-os-opensuse-on-the-pinephone:a">LBRY</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8mR52ulDvw">YouTube</a>. Bad timing here, I will definitely follow up once more works.</li>
</ul>
<p>Unfortunately, that was basically all I managed to do.</p>
LinBits 12: Weekly PinePhone news / media roundup (week 39)2020-09-27T13:00:00+00:002020-09-27T13:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits12-weekly-pinephone-news-week39/<p><em>It's sunday. Now what happened since last sunday?</em></p>
<p>A new release of #HuongTramLinux, GloDroid 0.5.1, Camera Adventures and much more. <em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="software-releases-and-improvements">Software releases and improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20200927">Arch Linux ARM/Huong Tram Linux</a> has had a new release, replacing Pinhole with Megapixels (which is now in version 0.9.0 and working better than ever) and fixing the GNOME Software app listings among other things. If you already have this distribution installed, a full upgrade should bring you all these new features without reinstalling. Also, <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDanct12/status/1307718376354054146">danct12 played a bit with Nemo Mobile's Glacier UX</a> this week.</li>
<li><a href="https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-developer-release-with-plasma-mobile-pinephone/26733">Manjaro Phosh Alpha 4 has been released</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.plasma-mobile.org/">Plasma Mobile</a> have rebased on Ubuntu 20.04, at least initially causing some regressions. Work on <a href="https://matrix-client.matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/thumbnail/kde.modular.im/037c9b106f933a229f8220f544650205dbb84958?width=800&height=600">working keyboard input in GTK apps</a> is also progressing, which is great news!</li>
<li><a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/104901905763931217">Phosh 0.4.4 has been released</a> with minor improvements.</li>
<li>GloDroid, the Android <del>10</del><ins>11</ins> distribution for the PinePhone and several ARM single board computers, have <a href="https://github.com/GloDroid/glodroid_manifest/releases/tag/v0.5.1">released version 0.5.1</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-13-released-with-browser-improvements-new-features-support-for-more-phones/">Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 released with browser improvements, new features, support for more phones</a>. <em>Great write up by Brad.</em></li>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/pinephone-news-roundup-9-25-2020/">PinePhone news roundup (9-25-2020)</a>. <em>If I should get hit by a bus or loose interest, here is a more than capable backup ...</em></li>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/google-nexus-5-as-linux-phone-2020-ubports-postmarketos/">Using a Google Nexus 5 as a Linux phone, in 2020</a>. <em>An excellent post on using the Nexus 5 with "true Linux" distributions.</em></li>
<li>BrixIT Blog: <a href="https://blog.brixit.nl/pinephone-camera-adventures-part-3/">PinePhone camera adventures, part 3</a>. <em>Martijn Braam, developer of <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels">megapixels</a> has written his third post on the PinePhone cameras. If you want to learn about the difficulties of camera stuff, this is a must read!</em></li>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#018">Some ways to improve Pinephone safety</a> and <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#017">Let's talk about safety of Pinephone</a> (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24596248">hacker news comments</a>. <em>The second post is older and is decidedly inflamatory – as if there is not enough hardship. That said, safety matters, although I am not aware of any house burning down because of badly configured PinePhone kernels. Also, if you look at the world as a whole, you'll find much larger health/life risks that no one seems to care about enough to effect change.</em></li>
<li>David Field: <a href="https://tech.davidfield.co.uk/the-pinephone-is-a-world-of-possibility-thats-not-ready-for-you-just-yet/">The PinePhone is a world of possibility thats not ready for you just yet</a>. <em>If you are not sure whether to get a PinePhone or not, this post might help making a decision.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Avisando: [PinePhone - run without battery])(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Urbu1Wb9CU). <em>A new channel that makes videos that are very much to my liking (as they focus on the device and not a talking head). I managed to become the second subscriber!</em></li>
<li>PineTime: <a href="https://video.codingfield.com/videos/watch/2989c888-6c3c-4e0a-8428-4d5af3e03f21">BLE HID mouse with the Pinephone running Mobian</a>. <em>I was not going to buy a PineTime, but projects like this one...</em></li>
<li>Fabrixxm's things: <a href="https://peertube.uno/videos/watch/032cc2f4-8afd-46c7-aa74-91fdcf03fa6f">PinePhone + BangleJS Experiment</a>.</li>
<li>Howto: Privacy & Security:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDP1-D8Ys4">Megapixel: Dramatic Pinephone Camera Software Improvements</a>. <em>Megapixels is making impressive progress.</em></li>
<li>GeoTechLand: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2HQwoE8N7U">What’s New In Ubuntu Touch OTA-13</a>.</li>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kRM_8Wvjs">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 85</a>. <em>I like watching these sessions, although I never made it live, yet.</em></li>
<li>QtCon Brasil 2020: <a href="https://youtu.be/l7Rrx74W1fA">Convergence with Qt</a>. <em>If you want to know more about <a href="https://mauikit.org/">MauiKit</a>, this is a must watch!</em></li>
<li>Bits inside by René Rebe: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSY7N3jIB8E">The USB-C complexities: But I found a Pinephone USB dock charging workaround!</a> <em>René's streams are quite informative and technical.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<ul>
<li>I published two videos that cover <a href="https://forum.manjaro.org/tag/pinephone">Manjaro ARM</a> on the PinePhone with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOinLw0xP3c">Lomiri</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VefFyTF3c-I">Phosh</a>, and a <a href="https://linmob.net/2020/09/25/gnome-3.38-and-linux-smartphones.html">blog post on the new features GNOME 3.38 brings</a>. Also, I started uploading my videos to <a href="https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/0c0929a2-ed18-4aa4-bfbe-2b13a1ea6d5b">a platform that is not YouTube</a>, adjusting loudness on the way. This process can hopefully be finished in the next week.</li>
<li>Back to Manjaro Lomiri: After making that video, I managed to get Plasma Mobile apps to work by installing breeze and editing their .desktop files (in /usr/share/applications): Adding <code>env QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2 QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=breeze</code> between <code>Exec=</code> and the command to execute the app <a href="https://twitter.com/linmobblog/status/1309377856972165121#m">made them work just fine</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/linmobblog/status/1308073587534946304#m">short video</a>). Also, the terminal can be fixed by just choosing the <code>monospace</code> font in the settings of the app.</li>
<li>Another thing that can hopefully be (initially) finished next week is a new "How to …" page that explains basic stuff for the PinePhone by linking to helpful content on this blog and elsewhere. </li>
<li>Back to last week: On Tuesday I listened live to <a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20200927">Linux Unplugged</a> and took part in the Mumble room before and after the show. I did so on my PinePhone (running Arch Linux ARM by danct12) using the "convergence dongle", my Thinkpad USB keyboard and my USB audio interface. Phosh is not really great at convergence yet and there is at least <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/issues/365">one known issue</a> that is being worked on. I hope I can find the time to write about how to get to "convergence" and also try <a href="https://swaywm.org/">sway</a> instead of phosh for convergence soon. Other people have had good results with GNOME shell, but that might be a bit heavy for the limited hardware.</li>
<li>Three apps have been added to the <a href="https://linmobapps.frama.io">LINMOBapps list</a>: Social, Workflow and hackgregator.</li>
</ul>
LinBits 1: Weekly PinePhone news / media roundup (week 28)2020-07-12T00:45:18+00:002020-07-12T00:45:18+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits1-weekly-pinephone-news-week28/<p><em>One day late, sorry!</em></p>
<p>This is some the best stuff that happened around the PinePhone this week. <span id="continue-reading"></span><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="software-releases-and-improvements">Software: releases and improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>postmarketOS developer Martijn Braam made a <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/python-pinecamera">Camera script</a> for the Pinephone, and <a href="https://blog.brixit.nl/camera-on-the-pinephone/">wrote about it on his blog</a> <a href="https://blog.brixit.nl/pinephone-camera-part-2/">twice</a>. <em>(This should have been in linbits 0, sorry.)</em></li>
<li><a href="https://www.mobian-project.org">Mobian</a> has integrated a new, working <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/jwestman/camera">Gnome Camera app</a>. It's available in the current nightly images and works. The developer <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@flyingpimonster/104476040503554037">attributes</a> the slowness to the app, not the sensor. <em>The camera is slow, but it is great to have a camera app now. If it does not work on your Mobian install yet, check out this <a href="https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10578">thread</a>.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20200711">Huang Tram Linux, the Arch Linux ARM</a> build for the Pinephone, has made some progress and comes with an <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDanct12/status/1282022262455930881#m">adjusted keyboard layout</a> for terminal usage. <em>I really look forward to trying this keyboard. It should be relatively trivial to bring it to other Phosh-based distributions if I am not completely mistaken.</em></li>
<li>In other Arch/Manjaro news, there are efforts to port over Lomiri (which used to be called Unity 8 and is well known from Ubuntu Touch) to <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDanct12/status/1281576483610189829">Arch</a>/<a href="https://twitter.com/DMConstantino/status/1279797058334048257">Manjaro</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Slashdot: <a href="https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/07/03/2133201/linus-torvalds-i-do-no-coding-any-more">Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'</a></li>
<li>omg!ubuntu!: <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/flutter-sdk-linux-desktop">Google & Ubuntu Team Up to Bring Flutter Apps to Linux</a>. <em>This might proove useful for the PinePhone, Librem5 and similar projects. If Flutter should be supported on Linux Desktops with Touch interfaces in mind, easy ports of existing flutter apps might become a thing and help with app availability.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3.37.3-Released">Phoronix: GNOME 3.37.3 Released With More Features, Code Improvements</a> <em>GNOME 3.37 is the development branch that is going to become GNOME 3.38 in September. What's notable is the progress on GTK 4, and the new features Epiphany/Gnome Web is going to get, most notably the 'running in the background' feature for web apps which will certainly come in handy on the PinePhone. Eye of Gnome improvements for phone form factors are certainly welcome, too.</em></li>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/cutiepi-shell-sidekick-linux-convergent-dual-screen-touchpad-keyboard/">New CutiePi Shell "Sidekick" mode brings Linux convergence to the next level</a> <em>Convergent computing on Raspberry Pi 3 powered hardware? I am not getting my hopes up, but it is interesting nontheless.</em></li>
<li>Purism has posted two blog posts this week. The <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/mobile-app-stores-and-the-power-of-incentives/">first one by CSO Kyle Rankin</a> is an interesting read about the incentives on mobile app stores. The <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-dogwood-update-3/">second one</a> shares some details about their forthcoming fourth Librem 5 production batch, which is the last one before the Evergreen batch, which will be the real, high number production run the majority of backers are going to receive. <em>I like that they decided to include a larger battery compared to their previous iterations. This should really help with getting decent enough battery life.</em></li>
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<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Дмитрий Куртуков: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1XQ5Hv0sZo">Keyboard for PinePhone</a>. <em>This is a weird one, but you are going to see a (rare!) Nokia N950 being used as a PinePhone keyboard which is quite cool.</em></li>
<li>PizzaLovingNerd: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seLfbIIAycc">PinePhone OSes: Mobian</a>. <em>Better than my video, PizzaLovingNerd actually prepare their videos and it shows. Also: The Pure Maps suggestion is a good one.</em></li>
<li>PizzaLovingNerd: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbAkoRTHl-U">Taking Photos on the PinePhone</a>. <em>Good video. Minor nitpick: Upgrading Mobian generally works, if you are stuck on an old kernel, run</em> <code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-5.7-pinephone</code> <em>, as the <a href="https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=troubleshooting">Mobian Wiki</a> suggests. Worked for me!</em></li>
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<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<p><em>This really was a busy week for me. Aside from <a href="https://linmob.net/2020/07/09/pinephone-daily-driver-challenge-part0.html">thursdays blog post</a>, I did not really manage to do anyting at all.</em></p>
Ubuntu Edge2013-07-24T11:37:00+00:002013-07-24T11:37:00+00:00https://linmob.net/ubuntu-edge/<p>Marc Shuttleworth, the guy who created Ubuntu, announced a new project: A Smartphone that runs Ubuntu. It is a high-end smartphone, and is <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge">crowd-funded</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eQLe3iIMN7k">Watch the video on YouTube</a></p>
<p>This project is really interesting, but also quite expensive—I just can't spend USD 830,00 right now to get a new phone in May of 2014. That said, I appreciate the idea of Convergence. Motorola's <a href="https://linmob.net/tags/lapdock">Lapdock</a> approach may have been to early in terms of SoC performance (additionally it did not help, that Android's no fun, when used with a trackpad)—but my ARM <a href="https://linmob.net/tags/chromebook/">Chromebook</a> is (also running a light spin of Ubuntu (using LXDE as main UI) capable enough for my everyday tasks. The Ubuntu Edge is supposed to ship with 4GB of RAM and the best ship, that is going to available at the point in time when the design is going to be finished. Therefore, it's save to say, that these USD 830 buy more than just a smartphone.
If that happens: Collecting USD 32,000,000 via crowd funding would be a first. <em>Currently it's looking good though.</em></p>
<p><strong>More:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYM7tCjp0Go">A first Hands-On Video</a></li>
<li><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57595055-94/ubuntu-edge-3-things-to-think-about/">Jason Hiner for cnet.com with thoughts on three aspects of the Ubuntu Edge</a></li>
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Ubuntu for Android2012-05-06T21:17:00+00:002012-05-06T21:17:00+00:00https://linmob.net/ubuntu-on-android/<p>Ubuntu for Android - Two Kinds of Linux On Your Phone (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzc0uMXGFBY">webmink</a>)</p>