LINux on MOBile - LomiriLINMOB.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.Zola2024-03-24T22:53:36+00:00https://linmob.net/tags/lomiri/feed.xmlWeekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (12/2024): GNOME 46 and other releases2024-03-24T22:53:36+00:002024-03-24T22:53:36+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-12-2024/<p>Also worth highlighting: Some Sailfish Community News, Lomiri in Alpine and Ubuntu 24.04, a video about Nix including Mobile NixOS, progress regarding rounded display corners in Phosh, upstreaming progress for PineTab 2 and other devices, bugfixes with KDE Gear 24.02.1 and more!</p>
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<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth Reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>bbence: <a href="https://bbence.me/blog/2024-03-23-pinephone_pro_2_months_in/#pinephonepro">Pinephone Pro: Two months in with a rough start</a></li>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://blog.brixit.nl/bootstrapping-alpine-linux-without-root/">Bootstrapping Alpine Linux without root</a></li>
<li>Hackaday: <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/03/21/why-x86-needs-to-die/">Why X86 Needs To Die</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth Watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Matthew Croughan: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iviTZfiLGU">Matthew Croughan - Nix The Planet - SCaLE 21x</a></li>
<li>CyberPunkEdu: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZYgnlAkYvY">Simple X Mobile (Sxmo) - PostmarketOS 23.12 on OnePlus 6t (Fajita)</a></li>
<li>Luca Weiss: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMOxarhhYuM">FOSDEM 2024 - From phone hardware to mobile Linux</a></li>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEDXUerRBKI">PINE64 Quarterly Community Q&A [Live Stream] - 2024 Q1</a></li>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rpaRqv4waM">PINE64 Quarterly Community Q&A [Live Stream]</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth Noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>r/MobileLinux: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilelinux/comments/1blutgd/kde_plasma_mobile_6_in_postmarketos_in_qemu_vm/">KDE Plasma Mobile 6 in postmarketOS in QEMU VM tutorial</a></li>
<li>PinePhone (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone/comments/1bkfw7t/how_have_these_phones_been_on_the_market_fgxor/">How have these phones been on the market for multiple years and they STILL don't reliably receive SMS messages?</a></li>
<li>PINE64official (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/1bjbhle/best_distro_for_the_pinephone_pro_in_2024/">Best Distro for the PinePhone Pro in 2024</a></li>
<li>@luana: <a href="https://tech.lgbt/@luana/112135930201610518">Do NFC Payments work on #postmarketOS? #LinuxMobile</a>. <em>Of course, First Linux Mobile Bank fully supports it. Unfortunately they are always broke, so being able to pay with it is a matter of good luck. ;-)</em></li>
<li>@justsoup: <a href="https://mstdn.social/@justsoup/112118431269170680">For those wanting to give #Lomiri a try on #postmarketOS based on my last post, I wrote a quick shell script to set up the pmaports environment for you. All you have to do is run the shell script and then run <code>pmbootstrap init</code> and make sure to select "y" when prompted "Build outdated packages during 'pmbootstrap install'?".https://codeberg.org/JustSoup321/misc-tools/src/branch/master/lomiri_bootstrap.sh#Linux #MobileLinux</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="hardware">Hardware</h3>
<ul>
<li>MrAshCreates: <a href="https://nothing.community/d/5684-the-potential-of-a-linux-powered-nothing-phone">The Potential of a Linux-Powered Nothing Phone - Nothing Community</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="gaming">Gaming</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tom's Hardware: <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/playtron-announces-self-titled-linux-os-and-gaming-handheld-with-hopes-to-unify-storefronts">Playtron announces self-titled Linux OS and gaming handheld with hopes to unify storefronts</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="more-software-news">More Software News</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">Gnome Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/03/twig-140/">#140 Forty-six!</a></li>
<li>Tobias Bernard: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2024/03/22/mini-guadec-2024-we-have-a-venue/">Mini GUADEC 2024: We have a Venue!</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="phosh">Phosh</h4>
<ul>
<li>Guido Günther: <a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/112144958910177657">While we try to find a suitable place for the clock in phosh's top bar when notches are present (since 0.29.0) we didn't take rounded corners into account as most of the time the left and right padding would be enough.With more devices like the #fairphone5 and #xiaomi daisy showing up as being used with #phosh we need to care about that too:#LinuxMobile #gtk</a></li>
<li>#phosh: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/112140290494036804">Is it maybe time to review the #postmarketOS #GNOME mobile & #phosh default apps? Plasma Mobile gives you the option to install a few default apps alongside just the desktop + browser, but the GNOME mobile versions installs a lot of unrelated, not even GNOME circle apps as the defaults & Firefox instead of GNOME web for some reason, which is not the case for Plasma 🤷♀️</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-ecosystem">Plasma Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/22/this-week-in-kde-4/">This week in KDE</a></li>
<li>KDE Announcements: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.02.1/">KDE Gear 24.02.1</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="sxmo">Sxmo</h4>
<ul>
<li>#sxmo: <a href="https://mamot.fr/@fdlamotte/112123492698274582">I've updated my home automation app for Legrand Home+Control to the Netatmo protocol (the old protocol disapears in a month and I don't have an Android phone ...). And I've added a wrapper for #sxmo ;)https://github.com/fdlamotte/LightControlThe great thing is that it did not take me long (half an hour) to have a working proto of the wrapper (more to tune it of course).</a></li>
<li>@pocketvj@fosstodon.org: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@pocketvj/112127574378018646">thanks to a nice talk with the @postmarketOS crew last night,i ditched 'nano editor' in favour of 'micro editor', crazy, after all this years, why so late? its so much more userfriendly to write code with semantic highlighting!when i was a teenager *.mp3 was the thing to safe storage on the sony walkman phones, nowadays cool kids use *.opusaudio files, it uses 10x less storage on my #op6 and frees up space for other fancy stuff...</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="sailfish-os">Sailfish OS</h4>
<ul>
<li>Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: <a href="https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-21st-march-2024-rust/18235">Sailfish Community News, 21st March 2024 - Rust</a></li>
<li>adampigg: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/112124691952280245">#SailfishOS for the @PINE64 Pinephone and PinephonePro is updated to Kernel 6.8 and Mesa 24.0.3</a> <em>Nice!</em></li>
<li>flypig's gecko log:<a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?&list_id=1046&list=gecko">24 Mar 2024 : Day 194</a></li>
<li>flypig's gecko log:<a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?&list_id=1045&list=gecko">22 Mar 2024 : Day 193</a></li>
<li>flypig's gecko log:<a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?&list_id=1044&list=gecko">21 Mar 2024 : Day 192</a></li>
<li>flypig's gecko log:<a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?&list_id=1043&list=gecko">20 Mar 2024 : Day 191</a></li>
<li>flypig's gecko log:<a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?&list_id=1042&list=gecko">19 Mar 2024 : Day 190</a></li>
<li>adampigg: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/112147613642565656">#sailfishos #ofono day 14 - hello hello testing 123https://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-14</a></li>
<li>adampigg: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/112136417113993275">#sailfishos #ofono day 13 - container breakage https://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-13</a></li>
<li>adampigg: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/112130473194813293">#sailfishos #ofono day 12 - starting to rework voicecallhttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-12</a></li>
<li>adampigg: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/112124462036784244">#SailfishOS #ofono Day 11 - Doing some other taskshttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-11</a></li>
<li>adampigg: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/112119290930648981">#SailfishOS #ofono Day 10 - working again and submitting upstreamhttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-10</a></li>
<li>adampigg: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/112113119546093919">#SailfishOS #ofono Day 9, trying to master the voidhttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-9</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://linmob.uber.space/2024-03-19-Newsletter_March_19-socials-at-ubports.com.html">Newsletter March 19</a></li>
<li>fredldotme: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@fredldotme/112145949661892356">Here's a little gem: Comparing Interpreter Mode WebAssembly execution on the iPad Pro (with M2 chip) vs JIT on the Fairphone 4 with Ubuntu Touch.JIT comes at the cost of slightly prolonged warmup before execution.Need I say more? :)</a></li>
<li>fredldotme: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@fredldotme/112117421921270626">Pocket VMs, soon available from the Snap Store!</a></li>
<li>fredldotme on twitter: <a href="https://nitter.poast.org/fredldotme/status/1771493882548637990#m">Tide running on Ubuntu Touch with full hardware acceleration, finally!</a></li>
<li>fredldotme on twitter: <a href="https://nitter.poast.org/fredldotme/status/1770411667634983093#m">Although a working build of Lomiri is going to land in Ubuntu 24.04 archives, keep in mind that this is only the beginning. Don't expect a 100% stable experience yet, this will come over time.
With that being said, enjoy the first glimpse if you're willing to give it a go. 😉</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: <a href="https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/plasma-mobile/releases/tag/beta16">Beta 16</a></li>
<li>Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: <a href="https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/phosh/releases/tag/beta37">Beta 37</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="apps">Apps</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.online/@david_swift/112141517942659197">david-swift: "Memorize 0.2.0 for #gnome has a new app icon by @jimmac and an updated design (thanks to @bragefuglseth)! …"</a>. <em>Aside from being a fun app for learning things, this app is written in Apple's Swift programming language!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://floss.social/@rmader/112140153885410726">Robert Mader: "Friends of energy efficiency - the Light Video 0.1.0 #Flathub update is out, build with #gtk4 4.14 and #GStreamer 1.24.1. -…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://floss.social/@Tuba/112128464264500125">Tuba: "#Tuba v0.7.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!,…"</a></li>
<li>@awai: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@awai/112129132065237816">So I have now published the source code to "Birdies", my latest pet project: a digital scorecard for your #Golf games, written in #RustLang and relying on #libadwaita to make it perfectly usable on #LinuxMobile devices ⛳️🏌️It's in a very early stage (it doesn't even have an app icon yet!), but it builds and run fine: https://gitlab.gnome.org/a-wai/birdiesAnd as a bonus, here's a screenshot of Birdies used for an actual game (yes, there's room for progress on the golf skills as well ☺️ )</a></li>
<li>@chfkch: <a href="https://ruhr.social/@chfkch/112134374055605510">My first (very incomplete and WIP) iteration of my #MobileLinux #BitWarden client. It ia usually not ready for others to use, but i need to publish it to stay motivated.Works with #VaultWarden aswell. You have to build it fron source though, for the time being.https://codeberg.org/Chfkch/bitritter#LinuxMobile #Relm4 #GTK</a></li>
<li>postmarketOS Wiki Recent Changes: <a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/index.php?title=GNOME_apps&diff=57209&oldid=57121">GNOME apps</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="kernel">Kernel</h4>
<ul>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20240322-fp4-tcpm-v1-0-c5644099d57b@fairphone.com/">[PATCH 0/5] Add TCPM support for PM7250B and Fairphone 4</a></li>
<li>Pinetab 2 support merged for 6.9: <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=1b7e19448f8fbeee23111795f67a003431c40b27">arm64: dts: rockchip: Add devicetree for Pine64 PineTab2 - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree</a>, <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=420186db1483da4e16cd5d5a472f511a35dbc1b7">drm/panel: Add driver for BOE TH101MB31IG002-28A panel - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree</a>. <em>Thanks, anonymous contributor, for these and many more links!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/commit/eb7d184a0f583ff2772201a371f27ce734ca3a45">linux-postmarketos-qcom-sm8250: upgrade to 6.8.0 (MR 4910) (eb7d184a) · Commits · postmarketOS / pmaports · GitLab</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/commit/22dfc725718a25f0a5695d1de6277f3e6ec01f80">linux-postmarketos-omap: upgrade to 6.8.0 (MR 4871) (22dfc725) · Commits · postmarketOS / pmaports · GitLab</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="stack">Stack</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.34">Wayland Protocols 1.34 Introduces Better Drag & Drop, Explicit DRM Sync Objects</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="mobile-config-firefox">mobile-config-firefox</h4>
<ul>
<li>LINux on MOBile: <a href="https://linmob.net/mcf05-a-fix-and-some-planning/">MCF05: A fix and some planning</a></li>
<li>LINux on MOBile: <a href="https://linmob.net/mfc03-overdue-failures/">MCF03: Overdue failures</a></li>
<li>LINux on MOBile: <a href="https://linmob.net/mfc04-overcoming-a-hurdle/">MCF04: Overcoming a hurdle</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2024/03/22/this-week-in-matrix-2024-03-22/">This Week in Matrix 2024-03-22</a></li>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2024/03/22/matrix-v1.10-release/">Matrix v1.10 release</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>
<p>Huge thanks to Plata for <a href="https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io/-/merge_requests/5">the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed 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>
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (44/2023): Phosh 0.33.0 and postmarketOS Lomiri progress2023-11-05T23:58:53+00:002023-11-05T23:58:53+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-44-2023/<p>Also: Roundups detailing what's new in the Sailfish OS Community News and KDE Pim, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, and more! </p>
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<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="software">Software</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">Gnome Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/11/twig-120/">#120 Updated Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://floss.social/@rmader/111341284608547091">Robert Mader: "For #LinuxMobile and Linux #em…"</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="phosh">Phosh</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phosh.mobi: <a href="https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.33.0/">Phosh 0.33.0</a></li>
<li>Guido Günther: <a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/111351823200143340">phosh 0.33.0 is out 🚀📱: Allows to toggle password visibility on/off in all modal dialogs, new🔒-screen plugin to launch tasks, improved support for Indic languages ➕ UI and troubleshooting tab improvements in mobile settings.Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.33.0/#phosh #librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #gnomemobile</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-ecosystem">Plasma Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/03/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-alpha-approaches/">This week in KDE: Plasma 6 Alpha approaches</a></li>
<li>broulik: <a href="https://blog.broulik.de/2023/11/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-vol-4/">On the Road to Plasma 6, Vol. 4</a></li>
<li>Carl Schwan: <a href="https://carlschwan.eu/2023/11/02/kquickimageeditor-0.3.0-and-kirigami-adddons-0.12-alpha/">KQuickImageEditor 0.3.0 and Kirigami Adddons 0.12 alpha</a></li>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/01/plasma-6-fundraiser-update/">Plasma 6 fundraiser update</a></li>
<li>Volker Krause: <a href="https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2023/2023-11-01-kde-pim-september-october-2023/">September and October in KDE PIM</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="sailfish-os">Sailfish OS</h4>
<ul>
<li>Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: <a href="https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-2nd-november-qmf/17169">Sailfish Community News, 2nd November, QMF</a></li>
<li>adampigg: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/111351326458639566">You can now flash #sailfishos to your @PINE64 #pinetab2 using this script. Say yes to all questions, and boot using the debug dongle https://github.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevil/flash-it/blob/master/flash-it.sh</a></li>
<li>adampigg: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/111326217144294618">First boot of #SailfishOS on the @PINE64 #Pinetab2</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>Ubuntu Touch Forums News: <a href="https://forums.ubports.com/topic/9526/today-is-q-a-day">Today is Q&A Day</a></li>
<li>Ubuntu Touch Forums News: <a href="https://forums.ubports.com/topic/9521/ubuntu-touch-q-a-127-is-this-saturday-4th-nov-at-19-00-utc">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 127 is this Saturday 4th Nov at 19:00 UTC.</a></li>
<li>Ubuntu Touch Forums News: <a href="https://forums.ubports.com/topic/9509/ubuntu-touch-q-a-127-sat-4th-nov-19-00-utc">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 127 Sat 4th Nov 19:00 UTC</a></li>
<li>Ubuntu Touch Forums News: <a href="https://forums.ubports.com/topic/9503/ubuntu-touch-q-a-127-call-for-questions">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 127 call for questions</a></li>
<li>fredldotme: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@fredldotme/111320874235878563">For those who want to use Git in a restricted setup, like an all-Snap desktop or on Ubuntu Touch with Snaps enabled, I've updated git-confined to the latest upstream release.Enjoy!https://snapcraft.io/git-confined</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: <a href="https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/phosh/releases/tag/beta35">Beta 35</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-KVM">KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.7 Adds LoongArch, Up To 4096 x86 vCPUs</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="apps">Apps</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/semiprime/pygenda">Pygenda version 0.3.0</a>. New features: access to multiple calendars, now supports Evolution Data Server as a backend. Note from the author, Matt Lewis: I'd be very happy if people could try Pygenda on phones with keyboards, such as PinePhone+keyboard (it's designed for handheld keyboard devices - I use it on a Planet Computers Gemini PDA).</li>
<li><a href="https://chaos.social/@pi_crew/111336089108853072">Project Insanity: "Great update for the GTK YouTube…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://floss.social/@sonny/111351664878693318">Sonny: "@turtle contributed adaptive/m…"</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="kernel">Kernel</h4>
<ul>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20231102-pxa1908-lkml-v7-0-cabb1a0cb52b@skole.hr/">[PATCH v7 00/10] Initial Marvell PXA1908 support</a></li>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20231031140337.49291-1-newbyte@postmarketos.org/">[PATCH v5 0/4] Add samsung-matisselte and common matisse dtsi</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linaro.org/blog/upstream-linux-support-now-available-for-the-the-qualcomm-snapdragon-8-gen-3-mobile-platform/">Upstream Linux support now available for the the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform | Blog | Linaro</a>. <em>Linaro announce "Upstream Linux support now available for the the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform" (patches have been submitted).</em></li>
<li><a href="https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.6#Architectures">Linux_6.6 - Linux Kernel Newbies</a>. <em>Linux 6.6 was released. It includes support for Qualcomm SM4450 (Snapdragon 4 Gen 2) a new low-end mobile phone platform.</em></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Crypto">Linux 6.7 Reducing The Roles For Some Insecure/Obsolete Crypto Algorithms</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Networking">Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-configfs-tsm">Linux 6.7 Adds A Cross-Vendor Solution For Confidential Computing Attestation Reports</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="stack">Stack</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-cl_khr_gl_sharing">Mesa's Rusticl Adds cl_khr_gl_sharing For Advancing OpenGL/OpenCL Interoperability</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="non-linux">Non-Linux</h4>
<ul>
<li>Norman Feske: <a href="https://genodians.org/nfeske/2023-11-03-sculpt-os">What's new in Sculpt OS 23.10</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/03/this-week-in-matrix-2023-11-03/">This Week in Matrix 2023-11-03</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth Noting</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.social/@justsoup/111337585262572167">justsoup: "Some screenshots of the progre…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.social/@justsoup/111355375735665190">justsoup: "Audio works in #Lomiri on #pos…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.social/@justsoup/111355332234767463">justsoup: "#GTK apps finally work correct…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.social/@justsoup/111351806741403364">justsoup: "The #Lomiri startup wizard now…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.online/@MissBehave/111351894344150197">Miss Behave: "So, i finally tried out changing the screen.…"</a></li>
<li>PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PinePhoneOfficial/comments/17n2fd2/libreoffice_on_pine_phone_beta/">LibreOffice on Pine Phone Beta ?</a></li>
<li>PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PinePhoneOfficial/comments/17mvjfn/got_mate_image_built_for_pinephone/">Got MATE image built for PinePhone.</a></li>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/mobian-on-librem-5/21733">Mobian on Librem 5</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth Reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Caleb Connnolly: <a href="https://connolly.tech/posts/2023_10_28-all-control/">All Control</a></li>
<li>The Privacy Dad: <a href="https://theprivacydad.com/trying-pinephone-in-2023/">Trying Out the PinePhone in 2023</a></li>
<li>chrichri: <a href="https://chrichri.ween.de/articles/a248ad8/nitrokey-3-usb-c">Nitrokey 3 usb-c</a></li>
<li>Drew DeVaults blog: <a href="https://drewdevault.com/2023/10/31/On-real-names.html">On "real name" policies</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth Watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Continuum Gaming: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEQDGTrIQfA">Continuum Gaming E389: Sailfish OS app Paketti</a></li>
<li>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7l8yd3KaRU">test stream</a></li>
<li>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwV0zyLh68I">Ubuntu Touch on OnePlus 6 and 6T: Everything You Need to Know</a></li>
<li>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFmvNRdL2gY">Ubuntu Touch, Mobian, Manjaro Mobile, Descubra se o seu Smartphone é compatível com Linux Mobile</a></li>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlumkGZRnRY">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 127</a>. <em>Live from Ubuntu Summit, it seems!</em></li>
<li>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZaukjsqwXM">How To Install Ubuntu Touch On Your Phone in 1 Minute (English)</a></li>
<li>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FlpD-SIhrM">System Ubuntu Touch - Team Gohan</a></li>
<li>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvObsCG-Cqo">Running FOSS on a Thermal Camera (Sebastian Reichel, Collabora)</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>
<p>Huge thanks to Plata for <a href="https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io/-/merge_requests/5">the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed 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>
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (43/2023): Nemo Mobile Progress and Genode Sculpt OS 23.102023-10-29T19:40:09+00:002023-10-29T19:40:09+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-43-2023/<p>Two podcast episodes to listen to, an interesting hack on Droidian, and more!</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span>
<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="software">Software</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">Gnome Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/10/twig-119/">#119 Stylish Websites</a></li>
<li>GNOME a11y: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/">A new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops</a></li>
<li>Jakub Steiner: <a href="https://blog.jimmac.eu/2023/colorful-hig/">Colorful HIG</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="phosh">Phosh</h4>
<ul>
<li>Guido Günther: <a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/111308697225667786">We hit bug number #1000 in #phosh: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/issues/1000(and it's surprisingly not phone related)</a></li>
<li>Guido Günther: <a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/111285779498668900">I ever so often close the 🎵- player and when grabbing the 📱 I'd have to unlock it to just start the 🎵 player and then 🔒 the 📱 right away again (as there's #mpris controls on the 🔒-screen then anyway). Hence I wrote a small #phosh plugin to add arbitrary "launchers" to the 🔒-screen via a desktop file.This is very simplistic atm (as we e.g. don't track app-state) but gets the job done initially.I only used it for that purpose but there's other potential use cases:</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-ecosystem">Plasma Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/27/these-past-2-weeks-in-kde-wayland-color-management-the-desktop-cube-returns-and-optional-shadows-in-spectacle/">These past 2 weeks in KDE: Wayland color management, the desktop cube returns, and optional shadows in Spectacle</a></li>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/24/its-time-to-port-your-widgets-to-plasma-6/">It’s time to port your widgets to Plasma 6</a></li>
<li>KDE Announcement: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.9/">KDE Plasma 5.27.9, Bugfix Release for October</a></li>
<li>redstrate: <a href="https://redstrate.com/blog/2023/10/my-work-in-kde-for-october-2023/">My work in KDE for October 2023</a></li>
<li>Planet KDE: <a href="http://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2023/10/28/unfinished-projects.html">Unfinished projects</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="sailfish-os">Sailfish OS</h4>
<ul>
<li>flypigs Gecko log: <a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?list_id=912&list=gecko">Day 73</a></li>
<li>flypigs Gecko log: <a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?list_id=911&list=gecko">Day 72</a></li>
<li>flypigs Gecko log: <a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?list_id=910&list=gecko">Day 71</a></li>
<li>flypigs Gecko log: <a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?list_id=909&list=gecko">Day 70</a></li>
<li>flypigs Gecko log: <a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?list_id=908&list=gecko">Day 69</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports News: <a href="http://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-125-3900">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 125</a></li>
<li>Ubuntu Touch Forums News: <a href="https://forums.ubports.com/topic/9477/q-a-125-blog-and-audio-available-now">Q&A 125 Blog and Audio available now.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@lk108/111318866474734364">Lothar: "DeltaTouch: New release v1.2.0, now in OpenStore…"</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Noble-Numbat">Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" Opens For Development</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="nemo-mobile">Nemo Mobile</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jozef Mlich: <a href="https://blog.mlich.cz/2023/10/nemomobile-in-october-2023/">Nemomobile in October 2023</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="apps">Apps</h4>
<ul>
<li>LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/dev.bragefuglseth.fretboard/">Fretboard</a></li>
<li>LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/noappid.semiprime.pygenda/">Pygenda</a></li>
<li>LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/net.sf.metronomek/">Metronomek</a></li>
<li>LinuxPhoneApps.org: <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/@linuxphoneapps/111291805171539855">"Televido (https://flathub.org/apps/de.k_bo.Televido), a new app to watch german TV, is just a few pixels too wide for #MobileLinux phones, it seems.…"</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="non-linux">Non-Linux</h4>
<ul>
<li>Genode: <a href="https://genode.org/news/sculpt-os-release-23.10">Sculpt OS release 23.10</a>. <em>Quote: "[...]PinePhone version received several usability improvements[...]"</em> </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="kernel">Kernel</h4>
<ul>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20231027-ath11k-rproc-defer-v1-1-f6b6a812cd18@fairphone.com/">[PATCH] wifi: ath11k: Defer on rproc_get failure</a></li>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20231026132521.38575-1-newbyte@postmarketos.org/">[PATCH v4 0/4] Add samsung-matisselte and common matisse dtsi</a> <em>In case you are wondering: <a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_4_10.1_LTE_(samsung-matisselte)">This is a tablet released in 2014</a>.</em></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Great-Features">Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Expected-Features">Some Of The Features You Can Expect With Linux 6.7</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-RISC-V-Vector-Crypto">Linux Patches Speed-Up Kernel Crypto Functions With RISC-V Vector Extensions</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="stack">Stack</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Hawkmoth-Docs">Mesa Turns To Hawkmoth For Improving Documentation</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-Wayland-Progress">Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not Fully Ready Until 2026</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Feature-Starts">Mesa 24.0 Enters Feature Development For Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-October-2023">Servo Web Engine Made Some Nice Progress In October</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/10/27/this-week-in-matrix-2023-10-27/">This Week in Matrix 2023-10-27</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth Noting</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://layer8.space/@vacuumbeef/111285854325308060">vacuumbeef: "I've been wanting to do something like this for years and now, with my #Droidian port, I finally can. Hacked up some additional buttons that overlay #Phosh, using #EWW and #Rofi…"</a>. <em>This is great! If you are a Phosh user and only have time to click on link in this update, click this one!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@pocketvj/111316876973279410">PocketVJ: "it looks like there is finally a solution to get real gps working on oneplus6. people report that android 9.0.8 has to be flashed on both slots before installing linux…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@cas/111319292128256504">caleb: "would anyone be interested in remote access to any of the following devices for the purposes of #Linux mainline development and testing? …"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://freeradical.zone/@craftyguy/111315198793909110">Clayton: "Doing some #postmarketOS development on a laptop running #postmarketOS.…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@bradlinder/111313547013279673">Brad Linder: "LanguageBreak Jailbreak released for recent Kindle devices running software versions 5.16.2.1.1 or lower…"</a>. <em>If you happen to have such a device, make sure to attempt this and give the excellent KOreader a try!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.social/@justsoup/111310978686065298">justsoup: "…I wrote a small #Rustlang program to convert postmarketOS deviceinfo files to #Lomiri deviceinfo files. That way, scaling and convergence should work!…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@rolandlo/111305186472077876">Roland Lötscher: "@GTK I'm working on Xournal++…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@z3ntu/111305938835034586">Luca Weiss: "I'm attending #UbuntuSummit this year again, and I'll have a talk titled "Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones" there, talking about #Fairphone and other great topics!…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.social/@skirtreter187/111299338750547119">kebab: "Hey #MobileLinux community, #Postmarketos community, #PinePhone community, etc, I've found that pmOS doesn't seem to have an APKBUILD for signal-desktop, so I've gone ahead and tried to make one.…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@bragefuglseth/111296459762213932">Brage Fuglseth: "I'm working with @fkinoshita on improving the #OpenStreetMap editing experience in #GNOME Maps!…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://pleroma.popolon.org/notice/Ab8e8zyVp6fygxqxiS">Popolon: "The Great open source #OrganicMaps (using #OSM datas) just works fine on a #Pinephone Pro with #Manjaro #Phosh dev version.…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@hoanga/111319321981920878">hoanga: "while toying with an #emacs install on the #beepy. i found labeling what the buttons above the keyboarûd made emacs much easier to navigate…"</a></li>
<li>@linmob@fosstodon.org: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/111307852795893023">Finally repaired my #PinePhoneKeyboard (months after receiving the new keyboard board) - the external battery charges again, yay!,</a></li>
<li>PINE64official (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/17h3kvf/is_the_pinetab2_good_for_reading_pdfs/">Is the PINETAB2 good for reading PDFs?</a></li>
<li>PINE64official (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/17f7zv5/pinephone_4g_reconnect_not_happening_and_need_for/">Pinephone 4G Reconnect not happening and need for a spare battery.</a></li>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-record-a-gps-track/21695">Librem 5 - Record a GPS track</a></li>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/why-i-stopped-using-my-librem-5-after-two-weeks-of-hassle/21687">Why I stopped using my Librem 5 after two weeks of hassle</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth Reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/23/david-edmundson-on-wayland-and-quake-for-blind-people/">David Edmundson on Wayland and Quake for blind people</a></li>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://blog.brixit.nl/making-a-usb-ethernet-adapter-work-sr9700/">Making an USB Ethernet adapter work [SR9700]</a></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/the-real-speed-of-the-librem-5/">The Real Speed of the Librem 5</a>
<ul>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/new-post-the-real-speed-of-the-librem-5/21662">New Post: The Real Speed of the Librem 5</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth Listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>postmarketOS Podcast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/35-Interview-a-wai-devrtz-kop316-Mobian/">#35 INTERVIEW: a-wai, devrtz, kop316 (of Mobian Fame)</a>. <em>Great episode!</em>
<ul>
<li>Lemmy - postmarketOS: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/7023641?scrollToComments=true">#35 INTERVIEW: a-wai, devrtz, kop316 (of Mobian Fame)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Linux Lads: <a href="https://linuxlads.com/episodes/112/">Episode 112: Four Cs Thick</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8TuRQGlGZ8">YouTube</a> <em>(Did not manage to listen to it yet, YMMV ;-)</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth Watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un1hu919aNA">The Real Speed of the Librem 5</a> <em>If you're thinking, "This looks to good to be true": You're correct. Performance is fine, way better than the OG PinePhone, but it's does not match contemporary flagship devices - there software stacks are very bloated, but the very performant SoCs still outperform the Librem 5.</em></li>
<li>neochapay: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGZr90iaqBk">swipe back nemomobile</a></li>
<li>Johan Vandegriff: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Gd2HHeSHc">streaming from my new Linux Phone! embrace the jank with me</a></li>
<li>kajuz6: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0xX42k8y0k">Ubuntu Touch on the Pixel 3A: a Quick demostration of the OS</a></li>
<li>channel48: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUW5bu3FB4o">Upgrade Ubuntu touch 2 Android 14 ROM Derpfest 14 for Xiaomi Redmi Note 7</a></li>
<li>Suraj Kumar Mahto at DebConf 23: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPPwczXoR2I">Forming a SSH Cluster using old smartphones (Mobian and other OSes) - Sustainable Computing</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>
<p>Huge thanks to Plata for <a href="https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io/-/merge_requests/5">the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed 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 - especially this week! (Vacationing, with hopefully less mindless scrolling.)</strong></p>
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (41/2023): PinePhone Video Recording2023-10-15T19:15:37+00:002023-10-15T19:15:37+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-41-2023/<p>Also: A blog post about the difficulties of supporting the original PinePhone as a distribution, BananUI and Lomiri packaging progress for postmarketOS, PipeWire 1.0 coming closer, and a guide to proper MetaInfo for mobile apps.</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span>
<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="software">Software</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">Gnome Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/10/twig-117/">#117 Queued Fixes</a></li>
<li>Ximion: <a href="https://blog.tenstral.net/2023/10/how-to-indicate-device-compatibility-for-your-app-in-metainfo-data.html">How to indicate device compatibility for your app in MetaInfo data</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-ecosystem">Plasma Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/13/this-week-in-kde-colorblindness-correction-filters/?utm_source=atom_feed">This week in KDE: colorblindness correction filters</a></li>
<li>Carl Schwan: <a href="https://carlschwan.eu/2023/10/14/doxyqml-0.5.3-release/?utm_source=atom_feed">Doxyqml 0.5.3 release</a></li>
<li>Volker Krause: <a href="https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2023/10/14/kde-knotification-android-13.html?utm_source=atom_feed">KNotifications on Android 13</a></li>
<li>KDE Announcements: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.08.2/?utm_source=atom_feed">KDE Gear 23.08.2</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="sailfish-os">Sailfish OS</h4>
<ul>
<li>adampigg: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/111207136674525630">Waydroid on the #PinephonePro on #sailfishos</a></li>
<li>flypig's Gecko log: <a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?list_id=898&list=gecko">Day 59</a></li>
<li>flypig's Gecko log: <a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?list_id=897&list=gecko">Day 58</a></li>
<li>flypig's Gecko log: <a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?list_id=896&list=gecko">Day 57</a></li>
<li>flypig's Gecko log: <a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?list_id=895&list=gecko">Day 56</a></li>
<li>flypig's Gecko log: <a href="https://www.flypig.co.uk/list?list_id=894&list=gecko">Day 55</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="apps">Apps</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism forums: List of Apps that fit and function well: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/list-of-apps-that-fit-and-function-well-post-them-here/11361/370">MUST HAVE APP: geeqie</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="kernel">Kernel</h4>
<ul>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20231013-bq_leds-v1-0-cc374369fc56@apitzsch.eu/">[PATCH 0/2] arm64: dts: qcom: longcheer l8910 and l9100: Enable RGB LED</a></li>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20231013-ptn36502-v1-0-98109a430efc@fairphone.com/">[PATCH 0/2] Add driver for NXP PTN36502 Type-C redriver</a></li>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20231013-glink-altmode-ret-v1-1-77941537a35b@fairphone.com/">[PATCH] soc: qcom: pmic_glink_altmode: Print error when retimer setup fails</a></li>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20231013-fsa4480-swap-v1-0-b877f62046cc@fairphone.com/">[PATCH 0/3] Handle reversed SBU orientation for FSA4480</a></li>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20231013-fp5-thermals-v1-2-f14df01922e6@fairphone.com/">[PATCH 2/4] arm64: dts: qcom: qcm6490-fairphone-fp5: Add PM7250B thermals</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="stack">Stack</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-RPi-5-VideoCore-7.1.x">Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5's GPU</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-Rusticl-On-Zink">Mesa 23.3 Lands Support For Rusticl On Zink To Have OpenCL Atop Vulkan Drivers</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Wayland-Possibly-Soon">Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-1.0-RC2-Released">PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/10/13/this-week-in-matrix-2023-10-13/">This Week in Matrix 2023-10-13</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth Noting</h3>
<p>-<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@alaraajavamma/111183535498991759">alaraajavamma: "Want to record videos with OG …" - Fosstodon</a>,
<a href="https://gitlab.com/Alaraajavamma/pinephone-gui-for-video-recording">Alaraajavamma / Pinephone GUI for video recording · GitLab</a> You can now record videos super easy with OG PP (lot of contributors because most of the scripts are borrowed but luigi311 and alaraajavamma glued them together - testers and help would be appreciated)</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://floss.social/@VolkerKrause/111239292380102684">Volker Krause: "Direct #OSM editing of the selected element in #KDE Itinerary's indoor map, offering iD, JOSM and Vespucci so far, depending on what's installed.…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@capyloon/111236477474468268">Capyloon: "Right on the heels of Firefox Nightly, you can enable Global Privacy Protection in Capyloon! …"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.social/@justsoup/111202488329655126">justsoup: "I finally got #Lomiri to compile…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.social/@justsoup/111237259792785285">justsoup: "To give you an idea of how confusing it is to package Lomiri, here is the state of the dependencies:…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/111220335961844570">LINux on MOBile: "I've been pondering to write a 'PinePhone Pro: Two Years In' post, but I don't really feel up for it.…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@schmiddionmobile/111198520801027942">Schmiddi on Mobile: "A new release of Railway is here…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.science/@dryak/111206152840991288">DrYak: "Testing a few photos on my #pine64 #pinephonepro running #sailfishos , using the application Shutter by @piggz …"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.online/@DrewNaylor/111232941328413184">Drew Naylor: "Just improved the All Apps lis…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://freeradical.zone/@craftyguy/111226502408358923">Clayton: "#postmarketOS just gained support for a new feature phone UI, #bananui from @affe_null !…"</a></li>
<li>PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PinePhoneOfficial/comments/175tm87/should_i_still_think_of_this_as_an_explorer/">Should I Still Think Of This As An "Explorer" Edition?</a></li>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/when-will-firefox-esr-be-fixed-and-when-will-gnome-browser-work-properly/21574">When will firefox-esr be fixed? And when will Gnome browser work properly?</a> <em>If only newer flatpak to install Angelfish or newer GNOME Web would be a thing... ;-)</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth Reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/androids-monolithic-and-bloated-upgrades-vs-purisms-rolling-upgrades/">Android’s Monolithic and Bloated Upgrades vs Purism’s Rolling Upgrades</a></li>
<li>The KosmosGhost: <a href="https://kosmosghost.github.io/posts/a-picture-book-of-some-of-the-apps-on-mobile-linux/">A Picture Book of some of the Apps on Mobile Linux</a></li>
<li>LaoBlog: <a href="https://blog.libero.it/Laoblog2/16712437.html">Pinephone review: Sailfish OS</a></li>
<li>Mobian Blog: <a href="https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30/paperweight-dilemma/">The Paperweight Dilemma</a>
<ul>
<li>Mobian (Mastodon): <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mobian/111214556314577389">To give you a sense of what we talk about: all patches in these folders are those we carry in Mobian. https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team/devices/kernels/sunxi64-linux/-/tree/mobian-6.1/debian/patches</a></li>
<li>Lemmy - linuxphones: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/6330855?scrollToComments=true">The Paperweight Dilemma // Mobian's Blog</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Jozef Mlich: <a href="https://blog.mlich.cz/2023/10/pinetime-experience/">PineTime experience</a></li>
<li>Cassidy James: <a href="https://cassidyjames.com/blog/mastodon-verification/">How and Why to Get Verified on Mastodon</a></li>
<li>Ximion: <a href="https://blog.tenstral.net/2023/10/how-to-indicate-device-compatibility-for-your-app-in-metainfo-data.html">How to indicate device compatibility for your app in MetaInfo data</a></li>
<li>mjg59: <a href="https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/68004.html">Defending abuse does not defend free software</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth Watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Free Software Foundation Europe: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbLPii_M7ts">Flashing OnePlus 6T with postmarketOS</a></li>
<li>Prend Workbench: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAovHMIu63k">Testing | PostmarketOS Mini Laptop Rebuild</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wSEva1Z5fs">Membangun Ulang dan Merubah Instalasi Baterai | PostmarketOS Mini Laptop</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9YTbkWfdsE">Mengerjakan Panel Layar | PostmarketOS Mini Laptop</a></li>
<li>kajuz6: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyPm9p6zzFM">Debian sul telefono? Droidian su Google Pixel 3a!</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>
<p>Huge thanks to Plata for <a href="https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io/-/merge_requests/5">the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed 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>
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (6/2023): Work on dozing support for GNOME Settings daemon and more FOSDEM 2023 talk recordings2023-02-13T23:08:00+00:002023-02-13T23:08:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-6-2023/<p><em>Also:</em> Purism shipping a better WiFi card in future Librem 5 units, Lomiri now all packaged up in Debian unstable, more Sailfish 4.5 release content, Mobian shipping a working PinePhone Pro camera and "generic" Snapdragon 845 images + an image for the Fairphone 4. <em>And do listen to that podcast!</em></p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span>
<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="software-progress">Software progress</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">GNOME ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/02/twig-82/">#82 Software Performance</a></li>
<li>Dino blog <a href="https://dino.im/blog/2023/02/dino-0.4-release/">Dino 0.4 Release</a></li>
<li>GTK Blog: <a href="https://blog.gtk.org/2023/02/09/updates-from-inside-gtk/">Updates from inside GTK</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@azymohliad/109845051410034195">Andrii Zymohliad 🇺🇦🦀: "Just released #WatchMate v0.4.1…"</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-ecosystem">Plasma ecosystem </h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/02/10/this-week-in-kde-the-best-plasma-5-version-ever-2/">This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever… again!</a></li>
<li>KDE Announcements: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.103.0/">KDE Ships Frameworks 5.103.0</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fredldotme/109843166337548547">Codemaster Freders: "Fresh out of the lab: Intel Discord Linux app running on Ubuntu Touch aarch64, powered by box64"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mariogrip/109843421683519637">Marius Gripsgard: "#Lomiri on debian is now fully my daily driver 🥰 it's coming together and it's finally in the official archive, but some minor changes needed to get this stability"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@sunweaver/109828351339862872">sunweaver: "Celebration time: All #Lomiri packages we need for #Debian 12 have landed in Debian unstable. Now we'll need to make sure that all pkgs migrate to Debian testing. Then comes the fine-polishing and then Debian will have a new Operating Environment highly suitable for touch based devices such as tablets and phones. Cudos to all the developers and contributors over at the #UBports Foundation."</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="sailfish-os">Sailfish OS</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-9th-february-yrityspaivat/014466">Sailfish Community News, 9th February, Yrityspäivät</a></li>
<li>Jolla Blog: <a href="https://blog.jolla.com/struven-ketju/">Sailfish OS 4.5 Struven Ketju</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mobian/109851915093343974">Mobian: "Good news everyone! We've officially switched to "generic" SDM845 images with firmware being extracted by droid-juicer at runtime! Tested on both devices, GPU, wifi and modem seem to work just fine. We're also shipping a SM7225 image for the Fairphone 4. …"</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="stack">Stack</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Hangover-2023-Open-Source">Hangover Project Restarted To Run Windows 32-bit/64-bit Apps On ARM64/PPC64 & More</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linux">Linux</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.2-rc8-Released">Linux 6.2-rc8 Released - Stable Kernel Release Next Week</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/02/10/this-week-in-matrix-2023-02-10">This Week in Matrix 2023-02-10</a></li>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/02/09/finally-a-hybrid-conference-that-worked">FOSDEM 2023: Matrix’s first physical devroom</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://floss.social/@gnumdk/109841335519249387">Cédric Bellegarde: "I'm working on adding Dozing support to gnome-settings-daemon. Made some progress today, here we can see Geary (patched for this task) pulling emails in 12 seconds, allowing system to sleep again.…"</a>. <em>This is the most important news of the week, I think.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@awai/109853464619416132">A-wai: "Using a selection of patches from linux-next, a few ones from the linux-media list, @libcamera 0.0.4 and @rmader patches for libaperture and gnome-camera, I was finally able to get a cat picture out of the @PINE64 #PinePhonePro on @mobian 📷 …"</a> <em>And the best part is: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@awai/109856871978811760">You can try this at home, easily!</a></em></li>
<li><a href="https://social.kernel.org/notice/ASXjXY33rUh9mfZ0z2">Jacopo Mondi: "@libcamera has recently received an implementation proposal of an auto-focus algorithm for Rockchip RK3399. A great occasion to continue the work done at @fosdem to support the @PINE64 PinephonePro cameras."</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilelinux/comments/10v4ya9/comment/j7ffl83/">Best phone that doesn't use the Android kernel? - r/mobilelinux</a>. <em>Join the discussion!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>wongkee's Blog: <a href="https://wongkee.ca/2023/02/13/pinephone-pro-and-libcamera-on-mobian/">Pinephone Pro and libcamera on mobian</a>.</li>
<li>LINux on MOBile: <a href="https://linmob.net/convergent-windows-for-kde-plasma/">Convergent Windows for KDE Plasma</a>. <em>Great post, thanks plata!</em></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/shipping-new-sparklan-wifi-cards-with-librem-5/">Shipping new SparkLAN Wifi cards with Librem 5</a> <em>Frankly, this is a really good decision. To quote from a draft for an unfinished Librem 5 review: "Two obvious problems of the Librem 5 both contain the word 'pine' - one is PINE64, whose devices are way more affordable, and the other one is the Redpine Wifi/BT chip, which gets hot and really hurts battery life". I tried this card when it was first discussed in the Librem 5 Matrix room, and even without proper software support and without me connecting both antennas, it was better in many ways - while I can't find my Sparklan card right now, I still am sure that this is a good move by Purism.</em>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://chrichri.ween.de/o/d8105239154d41a0b28a3588c190df6e">Chris Vogel: "My #Librem5 had been delivered with a Redpine..."</a></li>
<li>Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/new-post-shipping-new-sparklan-wifi-cards-with-librem-5/19424">New Post: Shipping new SparkLAN Wifi cards with Librem 5</a> <em>Related forum thread.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/new-librem-5-usa-phone-customers-can-opt-in-for-30-days-of-free-awesim-purisms-privacy-first-prepaid-cellular-plan/">New Librem 5 USA Phone Customers Can Opt-in for 30-days of free AweSIM, Purism’s Privacy-First Prepaid Cellular Plan</a></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/expand-the-librem-5-hardware-with-the-breakout-board/">Expand the Librem 5 Hardware with The Breakout Board</a></li>
<li>Switzer et al.: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3575693.3575710">Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon</a>.</li>
<li>Felipe Borges: <a href="https://feborg.es/fosdem-with-gnome-was-a-blast/">FOSDEM with GNOME was a blast!</a></li>
<li>Volker Krause: <a href="https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2023/02/11/fosdem-2023-recap.html">FOSDEM 2023</a></li>
<li>LINux on MOBile: <a href="https://linmob.net/attending-fosdem-2023/">Attending FOSDEM 2023 for fun and profit</a>. <em>Boring!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>postmarketOS Podcast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/28-FOSDEM-2023-special/">#28 FOSDEM 2023 Special</a>
<ul>
<li>Lemmy - postmarketOS: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/753317">#28 FOSDEM 2023 Special</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>RTP: <a href="https://tube.tchncs.de/w/3374fd95-2291-4eb9-890e-3007d4b716d8">I2P Browser For Pinephone / Linux Devices (ready to try)</a></li>
<li>Włodzimierz Ciesielski: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBbWgDu4ahM">Samsung Galaxy A3 (2015) with postmarketOS: ssh session</a></li>
<li>Włodzimierz Ciesielski: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcgywfQdHEc">Samsung Galaxy A3 (2015) with postmarketOS: Phosh performence</a></li>
<li>Lup Yuen Lee: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGI_0yK1vws">Apache NuttX Real-Time Operating System for PINE64 PinePhone</a></li>
<li>Equareo: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=074lcFKloLw">Ubuntu Touch 20.04 beta on Fairphone 4, waydroid</a></li>
<li>Continuum Gaming: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vBZlLyN-9c">Microsoft Continuum Gaming E351: Sailfish OS 4.5 – Update Walkthrough in real time</a></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0gXfxCKEA">Expand the Librem 5 Hardware with The Breakout Board</a></li>
<li>Nicco Loves Linux: <a href="https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/7e5cae8f-1977-4026-b2f1-6911bf55e3c5">Can a GNOME Linux Phone be Daily Driven?</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lHH9yb75qc">YouTube</a>. <em>I'd recommend another distro and visiting LinuxPhoneApps.org, but that's just me, I guess :-)</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="fosdem-2023">FOSDEM 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/lomiri/">FOSDEM 2023 - Lomiri Mobile Linux in Desktop mode</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/sharp_photos/">FOSDEM 2023 - AMENDMENT Sharp photos and short movies on a mobile phone</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/mobian_to_stable_and_beyond/">FOSDEM 2023 - Mobian: to stable... and beyond!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/phosh/">FOSDEM 2023 - What's new in the world of phosh?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/ondev2_installer/">FOSDEM 2023 - Ondev2: Distro-Independent Installer For Linux Mobile</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/sailfish/">FOSDEM 2023 - Sailing into the Linux port with Sony Open Devices </a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/convergent_kirigami_apps/">FOSDEM 2023 - AMENDMENT Writing a convergent application in 2023 with Kirigami</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/future_of_mobile/">FOSDEM 2023 - Where do we go from here?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/bt_pipewire/">FOSDEM 2023 - Bluetooth state in PipeWire and WirePlumber</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/om_chromium/">FOSDEM 2023 - Modern Camera Handling in Chromium</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/publiccode_dpg_covid_exposure/">FOSDEM 2023 - Covid Exposure Notification Out in the Open</a></li>
</ul>
<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! <strong>If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>
<p>PS: I'm looking for feedback - <a href="mailto:weekly-update@linmob.net?subject=Feedback%20on%20Weekly%20Update">what do you think?</a></p>
Weekly #LinuxPhone Update (19/2022): OpenSUSE on Volla Phone, Phone calls on Nemo Mobile with a caveat, and another Modem Firmware release!2022-05-15T14:20:00+00:002022-05-15T14:20:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-19-2022/<p>It's the 15th, but <a href="https://twitter.com/LukaszErecinsk1/status/1523952982118834176">PINE64 had to delay their community update</a>. So let's at least get this weekly roundup out! <em>It's a bit boring though.</em></p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span>
<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h4 id="firmware">Firmware</h4>
<ul>
<li>biktorgj published <a href="https://github.com/biktorgj/pinephone_modem_sdk/releases/tag/0.6.5">release 0.6.5</a> of their open source firmware for the PinePhone (Pro) modem! <em>Call +22 33 44 55 66 77 now to talk to your modem! On a more serious note: Do read the release notes, there have been more changes than the small version bump may suggest!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="software-progress">Software progress</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">GNOME ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/05/twig-43/">#44 Foundation News</a>. </li>
<li>chergert: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2022/05/14/builder-gtk-4-porting-part-iv/">Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part IV</a>.</li>
<li>Marcus Lundblad: <a href="http://ml4711.blogspot.com/2022/05/maps-spring-cleaning.html">Maps Spring Cleaning</a>.</li>
<li>oleaamot: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/oleaamot/2022/05/14/gnome-voice/">Voice</a>. <em>No, I don't know what a Voicegram is either.</em></li>
<li>Sophie Herold: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2022/05/15/pika-backup-0-4-released-with-schedule-support/">Pika Backup 0.4 Released with Schedule Support</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-maui-ecosystem">Plasma/Maui ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2022/05/13/this-week-in-kde-something-for-everyone/">This week in KDE: something for everyone</a>.</li>
<li>Volker Krause: <a href="https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2022/05/14/kf6-plasma-build-progress.html">Building Plasma for KDE Frameworks 6</a>.</li>
<li>KDE Announcements: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.04.1/">KDE Gear 22.04.1</a>. <em>Just a bugfix release for KDE's apps!</em></li>
<li>KDE Announcements: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.94.0/">KDE Ships Frameworks 5.94.0</a>. </li>
<li>Albert Astals Cid: <a href="https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-kde-qt5-patch-collection-has-been.html">The KDE Qt5 Patch Collection has been rebased on top of Qt 5.15.4</a>. <em>Thanking the Commercial users for beta testing is a nice touch!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distro-news">Distro news</h4>
<ul>
<li>Having audio issues on DanctNIX? <a href="https://fosstodon.org/web/@danctnix/108298691019946344">They've posted instructions that solved the issue for me</a>.</li>
<li>If all you ever wanted is to run Plasma Mobile on Mobian, <a href="https://wiki.mobian.org/doku.php?id=desktopenvironments#plasma">have at it</a>!</li>
<li>OpenSUSE's mobile effort supports an additional, halium based device: <a href="https://twitter.com/hadrianweb/status/1524449265103245312">The Volla Phone</a>. (via <a href="https://gnulinux.ch/opensuse-tumbleweed-v20220511-fuer-das-volla-phone">gnulinux.ch</a>) <em>Too bad I handed my compatible device to my brother! Although, considering my full schedule... it's alright. Let me know how it's going if you've tried this!</em> </li>
<li>As you all know, postmarketOS <a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Interface">support many UIs</a>. <a href="https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/3123">Now, it looks like Lomiri (of Ubuntu Touch fame) is going to be another option soon!</a> (<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@calebccff/108289639207111454">Thanks, caleb</a>!)</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="kernel">Kernel</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rockchip-VOP2-Linux-5.19">Rockchip VOP2 DRM Driver Coming To Linux 5.19 For Display Support With Newer SoCs</a>. <em>While this does not affect the chips in current Linux Phones, it's good news for future Linux Phones!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="non-linux">Non-Linux</h4>
<ul>
<li>Genodians: <a href="https://genodians.org/ssumpf/2022-05-09-telephony">Pine fun - Telephony (Roger, Roger?)</a>. <em>Fun read!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h4>
<ul>
<li>According <a href="https://teddit.net/r/PINE64official/comments/ums0z3/psa_the_lora_pinephone_case_seems_to_drain/">to reddit user /u/The01player using the LoRaWAN backcover can badly drain the PinePhone's battery</a>.</li>
<li>Use Manjaro? Want Waydroid on your PinePhone Pro? Check out <a href="https://github.com/MadameMalady/Manjaro-Waydroid-Manager">Manjaro Waydroid Manager</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/FOSSingularity">@FOSSingularity</a>!</li>
<li>Also, by the same developer: <a href="https://github.com/MadameMalady/PinePhone-Pro-Manjaro-Maui-Shell-Installer-MMSI">A script to try Maui Shell on Manjaro</a>!</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="password-management">Password management</h4>
<ul>
<li>hamblinggreen: <a href="https://hamblingreen.gitlab.io/2022/05/07/my-love-hate-relationship-with-bitwarden.html">My Love-Hate Relationship With Bitwarden</a>. <em>This would have been one for last week, but I did not skim it carefully enough. See also: <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org/backends/pass/">Pass UIs</a>.</em> </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="librem-5">Librem 5</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/improved-delivery-time-for-librem-5-usa-may-2022-update/">Improved Delivery Time for Librem 5 USA: May 2022 Update</a>. _The <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/new-post-improved-delivery-time-for-librem-5-usa-may-2022-update/17236">comment thread</a> on Purism's forums is the usual.</li>
<li>The Arcology Garden: <a href="https://arcology.garden/librem5-first-impressions">First Impression of the Purism Librem5</a>. <em>Great write up!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>Linux Lads: <a href="https://linuxlads.com/episodes/season-7-episode-8/">Season 7 - Episode 8: Sailing New Waters</a>. <em>Featuring Adam Pigg, Sailfish OS enthusiast and porter (e.g. PINE64 devices).</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="sxmo">Sxmo</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bosco Vallejo-Nágera: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KWHSp41BY">Pinephone with sxmo (wayland) - thoughts after ~1 month of usage</a>. <em>Awesome in-depth video of Sxmo!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="nemo-mobile">Nemo Mobile</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jozef Mlich: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7z-WVSs0Rg">Nemomobile: phone call with PinePhone</a>. <em>Ok, audio does not work yet, but it's still an achievement!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phonez Pop: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaoHBBLMups">Poco X3 Pro Running UBUNTU Touch 🔥 🔥 🔥 Features, First looks</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="keyboarded-handhelds">Keyboarded handhelds</h4>
<ul>
<li>mutantC: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFnMh2CevHU">Sony Vaio UX UMPC review with Debian Linux</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="shorts">Shorts</h4>
<ul>
<li>Baonks81: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/it-JM-GkJxw">Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS Nexus 7 2012 grouper mainline kernel-5.15.0-rc4-postmarketOS-grate</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="something-missing">Something missing?</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 get in touch via social media or email!</p>
LinBits 34: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 8)2021-02-28T20:42:00+00:002021-02-28T20:42:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits34-weekly-linux-phone-news-week8/<p><em>It's sunday. Now what happened since last sunday?</em></p>
<p>A new Manjaro release, Plasma Mobile tarballs, Sailfish 4.0 on the PinePhone 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://carlschwan.eu/2021/02/23/neochat-1.1/">NeoChat 1.1</a> has been released. <em>No E2EE yet.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/phosh/releases/tag/beta6">Manjaro Phosh Beta 6</a> has been released, featuring all the new releases. Read more <a href="https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-beta6-with-phosh-pinephone/55679">on their forums</a>.</li>
<li>Plasma Mobile blog: <a href="https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/02/23/Plasma-Mobile-applications-tarball-release.html">Plasma Mobile applications tarball releases</a>. <em>Not much to read, but I hope that this will help Plasma Mobile get packaged in more distributions.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>/u/mrtiger69: <a href="https://www.teddit.net/r/PINE64official/comments/lszxrv/spotify_on_the_pinephone/">Spotify on the PinePhone!</a>. <em>I added this to LINMOBapps last week, and now it even scales properly. Spotify Premium only.</em></li>
<li>@adampigg: <a href="https://twitter.com/adampigg/status/1365328542117093378">SailfishOS 4.0 now works on the PinePhone with video playback in the default Gecko-based browser.</a>. <em>I am going to look at this in the coming week.</em></li>
<li>@drago_senpai: <a href="https://twitter.com/drago_senpai/status/1364091065834164225">ExpidusOS now has a six months roadmap.</a> <em>Roadmaps are always confidence-inspiring.</em></li>
<li>@Fivnex: <a href="https://twitter.com/Fivnex/status/1365105202806710272">Potabi is going to be based on FreeBSD, and will be using Lomiri.</a> <em>Keep in mind: There is no FreeBSD working on the PinePhone just yet (although it works on the <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/pine64">Pine A64</a>), and I don't recall that Lomiri has ever been run on FreeBSD. Now that's what I call a gigantic endeavour.</em></li>
<li>/u/realSpaetz: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/lt2fdg/i_received_my_l5_and_it_is_heavy_beautiful_and/goz36if/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Librem 5 vs PinePhone eMMC benchmarking</a>. <em>That's why apps launch faster on the Librem 5.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-11/">Purism and Linux 5.11</a>. <em>An overview of Purism's contributions to the most recent Linux release.</em></li>
<li>StealthGun's blog: <a href="https://stealthgun.tweakblogs.net/blog/19336/gentoo-on-a-pinephone">Gentoo on a PinePhone</a>. <em>Nice guide to getting started with Gentoo on the PinePhone.</em></li>
<li>MoukTech: <a href="https://mouktech.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/season-of-kde-project-update-1/">Season Of KDE – Project Update 1</a>. <em>foKus seems to be an interesting app.</em></li>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://ubports.com/de/blog/ubports-blogs-nachrichten-1/post/call-for-testing-ubuntu-touch-ota-16-3742">Call for Testing: Ubuntu Touch OTA-16</a>.</li>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/open-source-phone-news-roundup-freebsd-google-free-android-and-ubuntu-touch/">Open Source phone news roundup: FreeBSD, Google-free Android, and Ubuntu Touch</a>. <em>Open source, not Linux, because of Potabi — see above.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>PineTalk <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/02/26/003-quartzy-keyboards/">003: Quartzy Keyboards</a>. <em>Another Episode of <a href="https://elatronion.com">Ezra</a> and me talking about a few things. I already have some ideas for the next episode, but please keep feedback and questions coming!</em></li>
<li>Nephitejnf: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkR0KbcioPo">More Thoughts on the Current State of the Pinephone and Her Linux Distros</a>. <em>Yes, this is a YouTube video, but there's nothing to see, so just listen.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Сергей Чуплыгин: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-jHFa8YOpI">QtQuickControls-Nemo: Compare Spiner in QML and C++</a>. <em>New Nemo PinePhone image when?</em></li>
<li>Peter Hazenberg: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wMlACfEO0A">PinePhone - WoWLAN - Wake on Wireless LAN</a>. <em>Really cool work!</em></li>
<li>Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q57Nj6Az3U">Sandbox Apps With Firejail: Protecting Pinephone/Pinetab/Linux Box (Firefox Example)</a>. <em>Great to see Firejail in action, I haven't been using it lately.</em></li>
<li>TalkNTech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Nn7wJhr0s">What I think of the Pine64 Pinephone KDE CE</a>. <em>Good thoughts.</em></li>
<li>IziacNix: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYWe6L4hGNQ">Ubuntu Touch on the Pinephone</a>. <em>Two devices running Ubuntu Touch.</em></li>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AWxWgs0CN0">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 95</a>. <em>Highlights include: News on Anbox, Xperia X mainline and a lot more. Do watch it!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="mobian-unboxings">Mobian unboxings</h4>
<ul>
<li>TechHut: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqzAjEWfrAc">Unboxing the PinePhone by Pine64! - First look at Mobian (Debian Mobile)</a>. <em>Nice video, looking forward to more!</em></li>
<li>Kevin Veroneau: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLq9qINIybg">Unboxing the PinePhone Mobian community edition</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV02IK-1UMM">Mobian first boot on the PinePhone</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinetab-corner">PineTab corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/f5e41da9-3d95-4c5d-b2d0-2c96d165105e">Pinetab/Pinephone Arch (DanctNIX) Full D Encryption Install Script + Bonus (Option) BlackArch Linux</a>. <em>Nice to see that FDE script demoed.</em></li>
<li>LinuxLounge: <a href="https://odysee.com/@LinuxLounge:b/pinetab-unboxing-and-first-impressions:6">PineTab Unboxing and First Impressions!</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>I published no video and no blog post this week. I did not even manage to do much on social media or improve a previous blog post. <em>I hope to do better next week!</em></p>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<p>With <code>--ssb</code> being removed in Firefox 86, I <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commit/9cffb330b5dc50d37d1372597e7f6d61703cc4ba">updated my launcher file</a> to use <code>--kiosk</code> instead. It works ok once you have one more app open in Phosh.</p>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>This week I added two apps to LINMOBapps, siglo (a WIP GTK client for connecting to InfiniTime), and Craw Translate, a Kirigami translation frontend. I also updated the rating of Spot, the GTK/Rust Spotify frontend, which now works great on mobile. <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">A little more maintenance happened</a>. Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/tasks.md">do contribute</a>! </p>
LinBits 33: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 7)2021-02-21T22:58:00+00:002021-02-21T22:58:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits33-weekly-linux-phone-news-week7/<p><em>It's sunday. Now what happened since last sunday?</em></p>
<p>Megapixels scans QR code, Plasma 5.21, the new default PinePhone OS and more! <em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="software-development-and-releases">Software development and releases</h3>
<h4 id="apps">Apps</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases/tag/0.7">Jumpdrive 0.7</a> has been released, adding support for the Librem 5.</li>
<li><a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.0/">Plasma Mobile 5.21</a> is out.</li>
<li><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels/refs/0.15.0">Megapixels 0.15.0 has been released</a>. <em>Features include graphicsmagick and QR code support.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Some new OpenSUSE images for the PinePhone <a href="https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/PinePhone/images/?C=N;O=D">are available</a>. </li>
<li><a href="https://expidusos.com">ExpidusOS</a> have released <a href="https://build.expidusos.com">initial images</a> of their Xfce based distribution.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>In some way <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22291324/linux-perseverance-mars-curiosity-ingenuity">Linux on mobile devices dominates planet Mars now</a>.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://twitter.com/adampigg/status/1362725713649029120">Sailfish Browser is working on Mesa now</a>, meaning it can work on the PinePhone (and other possible mainline Linux devices) now.</li>
<li>Initial Librem5 <a href="https://social.librem.one/@dos/105751707781287952">front-camera enablement is happening</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/02/15/february-update-show-and-tell/">February Update: Show and Tell</a>. <em>This is a monster update, as always. If you don't have the time to read it all, just watch PizzaLovingNerds awesome video, linked below. The most important announcements for this blog are Manjaro Plasma Mobile as a default OS and more details on the keyboard cover, which looks really nice.</em></li>
<li>OMG!Ubuntu: <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/02/pinephone-picks-manjaro-with-plasma-mobile-as-default-os">PinePhone Picks a Default OS — But Not the One I Expected</a>. <em>Joey's take.</em></li>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/future-pinephones-will-ship-with-manjaro-and-plasma-mobile-and-other-updates-on-the-keyboard-modem-firmware-and-more/">Future PinePhones will ship with Manjaro and Plasma Mobile (and other updates on the keyboard, modem firmware, and more)</a>. <em>Brad's take.</em></li>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/diy-smartphone-keyboard-made-from-salvaged-psion-5-pda-parts/">DIY smartphone keyboard made from salvaged Psion 5 PDA parts</a>. <em>Nice! Remember my <a href="https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/70e4e4bb-291e-42eb-aca7-804763e839ff">stupid simple version</a> of this?</em></li>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/fxtec-pro1-x-will-ship-in-august-with-a-snapdragon-662-processor-rather-than-march-with-an-sd835-chip/">F(x)tec Pro1-X will ship in August with a Snapdragon 662 processor rather than March with an SD835 chip</a>. <em>Sad to see this delay. I expect this to change the mainline Linux story for the worse.</em></li>
<li>Mobian Blog: <a href="https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2021/02/18/what_is_mobian/">What is Mobian</a>. <em>Great overview!</em></li>
<li>Official Jolla Blog: <a href="https://blog.jolla.com/sailfish4/">Fourth generation of Sailfish OS is here!</a>. <em>This is the official announcement of Koli, the new release of Sailfish OS.</em></li>
<li>Jason Santa: <a href="https://jasonsanta.xyz/blog/applications-that-i-use-on-my-pinephone/">Applications that I use on my pinephone</a>. <em>This is mostly a list, but he's going to follow up on this by explaining how this works.</em></li>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/manjaro-mobile-initial-setup-ui-plasma-mobile-5-21-pinephone/">Manjaro ships Plasma Mobile 5.21, adds initial setup for PinePhone</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<p>postmarketOS Podcast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/03-Librem5-Mainlining-Feedbackd-Plasma521/">#3 Librem 5, Mainlining, Feedbackd, Plasma 5.21</a>. <em>Great episode. Give it a listen!</em></p>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://odysee.com/@PINE64:a/february-update-show-and-tell:a">February Update: Show and Tell</a>. <em>Great video by PizzaLovingNerd!</em></li>
<li>Charbax: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-HzESA-n0c">Secure Linux Messenger: Arma Instruments G1 Secure Communicator</a>. <em>This is an interesting device.</em></li>
<li>Elatronion: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u65dofYFAPY">How To Install Different OSes On The PinePhone! + Mobian Overview</a>. <em>Nice, helpful video by my buddy Ezra.</em></li>
<li>Linux Lounge: <a href="https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/daa97d7b-1d51-44a6-8cc9-726f1b5aacb3">Gaming on the PinePhone Using Ubuntu Touch!</a>. <em>Great one for everybody who has time for gaming!</em></li>
<li>PizzaLovingNerd: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26AzFbFRXYE">Plasma Mobile is Maturing Well (PinePhone OSes: Manjaro Plasma)</a>. <em>Nice video by PizzaLovingNerd!</em></li>
<li>HomebrewXS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCQLSGh2eDE">Manjaro Plasma Mobile Overview</a>. <em>Nice overview of Manjaro Plasma Mobile.</em></li>
<li>HomebrewXS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Xe-r3WHLE">XFCE on the PinePhone, ExpidusOS</a>. <em>Great first look at ExpidusOS, a Void Linux fork with Xfce for the PinePhone. I tried it too, and once it feels like it's actually close to being usable, I am going to make a video about this.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="postmarketos-corner">postmarketOS corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>Felix Pojtinger: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NpS1uqTjlQ">Installing postmarketOS on the BQ Aquaris X5</a>. <em>Awesome explanatory video on how to get postmarketOS to run the bq Aquaris X5. Keep in mind that neither sound nor the battery indicator work out of the box though on the bq Aquaris X5.</em></li>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV1iovdFaDs">Megapixels 0.15.0, QR support</a>. <em>Short video demoing the new QR code scanning feature on Megapixels.</em></li>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFPl2Sabj38">Hammerhead running smoother with new GPU patches</a>. <em>This is a Nexus 5 running postmarketOS fairly nicely! Awesome!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="security-corner">Security corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/9e9e577e-2ed8-4866-9d1c-e7066a0274c3">MAC/SSID Location Tracker Functional On Pinephone + Other Uses + Dev Reconnects Give Away Handshakes</a>.</li>
<li>Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/8550c86f-472c-4f61-ae2a-f35359ee061c">Phone WiFi On? = Identifies GPS/Home Address; Py Mactrack Monitor Logging & Location Identification</a>.</li>
<li>Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr-tTC5nQKE">Identify Masked Burglar With Button On Your Linux Phone (Pinephone Shown)</a>. <em>All of these are really interesting. I learnt a lot — I roughly knew that this is all possible, but these videos show how to do it.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>I published one video this week. It's called "Manjaro Daily Dev Builds for PinePhone — a look at Lomiri, Phosh and Plasma Mobile", and you can watch it on</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/95834c0c-7416-46cf-ac7f-46677a92acc2">PeerTube</a></li>
<li><a href="https://odysee.com/@linmob:3/manjaro-daily-dev-builds-for-pinephone-a:1">Odysee</a> or</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW224e-4ZYE">YouTube</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>I also did a live stream on YouTube sharing some early impressions of the Librem 5. If you want to watch it now, you can do so on <a href="https://odysee.com/@linmob:3/linmoblive3-librem5-and-pinephone:4">Odysee</a>. You'll need an account though and it costs 2 fantasy crypto coins. <em>Some people have been upset about this. My reasoning behind this is that I don't want my streams to get to many views after the fact, as they are basically unedited impressions. That said, while the video was not private on YouTube, it got (stream and slight edit combined) 380 views (I was waiting for the video to sync over to Odysee, until comments complaining about "silent audio" led to me taking it private), so I think my reasoning is not totally absurd.</em></p>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<p>I <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/105764335621702976">played with Expidus OS for a bit</a>. It needs time, but I like the idea a lot.</p>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>This week I added three apps to LINMOBapps, <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">and some maintenance happened</a>. I also added some more <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/tree/master/PKGBUILDs">PKGBUILDs</a>. Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/tasks.md">do contribute</a>! </p>
LinBits 29: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 3)2021-01-24T22:42:00+00:002021-01-24T22:42:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits29-weekly-linux-phone-news-week3/<p><em>It's sunday. Now what happened since last sunday?</em></p>
<p>Plenty distro releases, a new PinePhone accessory, Phosh 0.8.0 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>Phosh 0.8.0 <a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/105582300169436480">has been released</a>. Go read the full <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.8.0">release notes</a>. <em>The scaling feature in Settings > Display is really nice. I hope that we'll see fractional scaling there next.</em></li>
<li>Squeekboard 1.12.0 "Convolution" has been released, check out the <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/-/blob/5b3c185a16daccb73cb3c870c677404215ceafd6/debian/changelog">changelog</a> for which new layouts have been added.</li>
<li><a href="https://postmarketos.org/blog/2021/01/22/v20.05.1-is-released/">postmarketOS have released a Service Pack</a> for their stable v20.05 release. <em>This is going to help everybody who decided to stick with stable and is going to improve the experience a lot. Still: You're using not the latest software on a nascent platform. Why?</em></li>
<li>openSUSE have released <a href="https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/PinePhone/images/">new images</a> — read the <a href="https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/U6SKQJFFRAXKP7CEEHXSYTPBCNPGXSL2/">mailing list post</a> <em>Quite interesting, they are going to publish Plasma Mobile images soon (or I just did not find them yet)!</em></li>
<li>Manjaro have pushed out three releases this week:
<ul>
<li>Phosh has been bumped to <a href="https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-beta5-with-phosh-pinephone/49917">Beta 5</a>,</li>
<li><a href="https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-beta2-with-plasma-mobile-pinephone/49949">Plasma Mobile Beta 2</a> is out,</li>
<li>and <a href="https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-alpha3-with-lomiri-pinephone/49923">Lomiri is now at Alpha 3</a>. <em>It bugs me a bit that they ship their beta images with ssh enabled and root (password root) active.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>DanctNIX/Arch Linux ARM <a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20210124">have released new images</a>. If you already have it installed, upgrading packages it enough.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>librefree.me: <a href="https://librefree.me/goodbye-addictive-spy-brick-hello-freedom">Goodbye Addictive Spy Brick, Hello Freedom!</a> <em>I believe the headline should rather read: "Hello, addictive Linux Phone!"</em></li>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/the-first-postmarketos-service-pack-release-brings-major-pinephone-improvements/">First postmarketOS service pack brings major PinePhone improvements</a>. <em>If you are running the pre-installed postmarketOS (or for another option opted for postmarketOS stable instead of edge, you'll have an update now that will improve things.</em></li>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/1-pinephone-pogo-pin-breakout-board-lets-you-connect-add-ons-without-removing-the-back-cover/">$1 PinePhone pogo pin breakout board lets you connect add-ons without removing the back cover</a>. <em>PINE64 silently launched something nice for makers and tinkerers!</em></li>
<li>/u/zschroeder6212: <a href="https://teddit.net/r/PINE64official/comments/l40esv/fingerprint_scanner_update_the_new_prototype_is/">Fingerprint scanner update: The new prototype is complete, and it is <em>MUCH</em> slimmer!</a>. <em>Awesome progress!</em></li>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/pinephone-news-roundup-1-24-2021/">PinePhone news roundup (1-24-2021)</a>. <em>Another PinePhone roundup from today, lol.</em></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/reflashing-the-librem-5/">Reflashing the Librem 5</a>. <em>If you have your Librem 5 and want to give it to someone else, this might help. I am still waiting for that email to confirm my address, though.</em></li>
<li>Gamey: <a href="https://lbry.tv/@gamey:c/Fractal-on-the-Pinephone:5">Fractal on the Pinephone + Encryption and Keyring workaround</a>. <em>Nice write-up on how to properly run Fractal, the GTK-native matrix client.</em></li>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/linux-distro-jingos-phone-qt-touch-friendly-jingotab/">New project aims to bring Linux mobile devices back to the mainstream market</a>. <em>Nice article on JingOS, the iPadOS-like Linux. It's an admirable effort, and I hope it'll go well!</em></li>
<li>FOSS2go: <a href="https://foss2go.com/mobian-community-edition-ce-pinephone-is-available-for-pre-order-in-the-pine-store/">Mobian Community Edition (CE) PinePhone is available for pre-order in the Pine Store</a>. <em>You can buy this now!</em>
<ul>
<li>DebugPoint: <a href="https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/01/pinephone-mobian-edition-review-1/">Debian based PinePhone Mobian Edition Review. Spec, Price, and More.</a>. <em>Isn't it wonderful to review things before they have even been produced?</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Nico's blog: <a href="https://www.ncartron.org/pinetime-on-sailfishos.html">PineTime on SailfishOS</a>. <em>The awesome thing is: You can use Amazfish on other PinePhone distributions too, Manjaro even has it packaged up.</em></li>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://ubports.com/blog/ubport-blogs-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-92-3738">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 92</a>. <em>The written and audio equivalents of last weeks stream.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>postmarketOS Podcast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/02-Roadmap-daily-driving-and-how-to-help/">#2 Roadmap, daily driving and how to help</a>. <em>Give it a listen, it's awesome!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>ShortCircuit: <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=BH8DRyKUZDg">Is Linux always the answer? - Librem 5 Smartphone</a>. <em>Of course Linux is always the answer!</em></li>
<li>Tech Pills: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geiHgB5cJcA">My experience with the PinePhone</a>. <em>Awesome video that explains the PinePhone from start to finish. The guy really knows what he is talking about, you may have used one of his apps, e.g. Giara, the Reddit client.</em></li>
<li>Tech Show MX: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LOCMUfuHB4">Probando un sensor térmico en el PinePhone</a>. <em>Pogo pins in use!</em></li>
<li>Prawnboy SG: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixtrByju3cU">Pinephone - Continuous music with no cuts off even on spotify running inside anbox.</a>. <em>You may ask: Why is this worth a video? Well, it was broken for quite a while, and now it works again.</em></li>
<li>Elatronion: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8piUTA2HMs">PinePhone Manjaro Lomiri: The User Friendly Nerdy OS</a>. <em>Awesome video on the same Manjaro Lomiri release I "showcased" last week.</em></li>
<li>Dark1 Linux, Tech, Gaming: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DilhflSH4pY">BEST Ubuntu Touch Apps for the PinePhone are …</a>. <em>It would have been lovely to see the apps in use on the Phone, too, but since I did not know all the apps he talks about in this video, it might be a worth a watch for you, too.</em></li>
<li>Linux Lounge: <a href="https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/9ac64445-eb1e-4cc1-a1d3-4c00d72e02cc">A Look At Sailfish OS On The PinePhone</a>. <em>A nice video on SailfishOS!</em></li>
<li>Leszek Lesner: <a href="https://youtu.be/k6io9J2bPDQ">SailfishOS for Laptops (x86-64)</a>. <em>If you want to run Sailfish on your laptop, watch this video to find out more!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>I made one new video: "Getting started with the KDE Community Edition Smartphone"</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/e32832c3-55e5-4483-b906-5164be4c7839">PeerTube</a>,</li>
<li><a href="https://lbry.tv/@linmob:3/getting-started-with-the-kde-community:1">LBRY</a>,</li>
<li>and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uUMiNS5rlw">YouTube</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>I also published a matching <a href="https://linmob.net/2021/01/23/getting-started-with-the-kde-ce-pinephone.html">blog post</a>, that tries to cover the parts that I did not cover in the video. <em>I have also tried to use Plasma Mobile in the past two days for all my PinePhone needs, and while it has made a lot of progress (text input in GTK apps works reliably now), I would not recommend it for daily driving yet — not only was I unable to get mobile data to work, but receiving and placing calls hasn't exactly been seemless either and Firefox still flickers. I start to think that now that Plasma Mobile made the PinePhone their primary device and dropped libhybris devices, it might be time to drop Ofono in favour of Modem Manager to get more reliable phone calls and more the easy way by following upstream.</em></p>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<p>I also played with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/105606361446961877">USB-C hardware</a>. I will try to add my findings to the Pine64 Wiki and finally publish my long drafted blog post on convergence.</p>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p><strong>Poll results:</strong> I count a total of 20 votes and got overwhelming acceptance for every proposal. This means that further integration of blog and app list are going to happen as soon as I get to it — my schedule is packed, so more than links in the navigation are unlikely to happen for now. Also, I'll likely add ways to donate cryptocurrencies by simply setting up wallets and providing addresses to donate to. I'll also need to read up on mirroring Git repos properly in order to increase visibility of the list and maybe obtaining drive-by contributions, especially on GitHub. <em>Stay tuned and remember that your ideas are always very welcome!</em></p>
<p>That aside, <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">a few additions and some maintenance happened</a>. Thanks to The3DmaN for his awesome mail-in contribution of 4 apps! Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/tasks.md">do contribute</a>!</p>
LinBits 27: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 1)2021-01-10T21:30:00+00:002021-01-10T21:30:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits27-weekly-linux-phone-news-week1/<p><em>It's sunday. Now what happened since last sunday?</em></p>
<p>KWin improvements, new Manjaro Lomiri dev builds, Linux 5.10 on the PinePhone's Quectel EG25-G 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>Phoc 0.6.0 <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phoc/-/releases/v0.6.0">has been released</a>. </li>
<li>The Quectel EG25-G Modem <a href="https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/1346582145557524488">can run Linux 5.10 now</a>.</li>
<li>Plasma Mobile: <a href="https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/1347241731801178113">KWin improvements make quite the difference</a>. <em>See also Nate Grahams article below.</em></li>
<li>Manjaro Lomiri <a href="https://twitter.com/ManjaroLinux/status/1347568314692861957">seems to get going again</a>, as two dev images where released in the past week. <em><a href="https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/storage/pinephone/lomiri/dev-20210110/">Click this link</a> to get to the latest image.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://freeradical.zone/@craftyguy/105522734134837770">postmarketOS is switching to eg25-manager</a>, which should improve the PinePhones reliability as a phone considerably.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>FOSS2go: <a href="https://foss2go.com/pinephone-modem-can-now-run-linux-kernel-5-10/">PinePhone modem can now run Linux kernel 5.10</a>.</li>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/linux-phone-news-roundup-1-06-2020/">Linux phone news roundup (1-06-2020)</a>.
<ul>
<li>FOSS2go: <a href="https://foss2go.com/manjaro-arm-developer-build-of-lomiri-for-pinephone-is-out/">Manjaro ARM developer build of Lomiri for PinePhone is out</a>. <em>FOSS2go's take on the same issue.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>FOSS2go: <a href="https://foss2go.com/manjaro-arm-developer-build-of-lomiri-for-pinephone-is-out/">Manjaro ARM developer build of Lomiri for PinePhone is out</a>. <em>I am going to try this soon.</em>
<ul>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/theres-a-new-manjaro-arm-lomiri-dev-build-for-the-pinephone/">There’s a new Manjaro ARM Lomiri dev build for the PinePhone</a>. <em>Brad's take.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/can-a-linux-phone-replace-my-iphone-or-android-device/">Can a Linux phone replace my iPhone or Android device?</a>. <em>Nice write-up!</em></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-5.15-LTS-Commercial-Phase">The Qt Company Is Tomorrow Moving Qt 5.15 To Its Commercial-Only LTS Phase</a>. <em>I don't know if and how this is going to affect Plasma Desktop and Mobile, but it's definitely worth noting.</em></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-8/">Purism and Linux 5.8</a>. <em>Boy, that post is late! 5.10 is already released, but it's still interresting.</em></li>
<li>Purism App Spotlight:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://puri.sm/posts/app-showcase-weather/">Weather</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://puri.sm/posts/app-spotlight-sound-recorder/">Sound Recorder</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>/u/bloggerdan: Pinephone as a daily driver? A Non-predetermined Amount of Time* with Mobian: <a href="https://teddit.net/r/PINE64official/comments/krdx2p/pinephone_as_a_daily_driver_a_week_with_mobian/">Day 8</a>, <a href="https://teddit.net/r/PINE64official/comments/ktbaud/pinephone_as_a_daily_driver_a_nonpredetermined/">Day 9</a>, <a href="https://teddit.net/r/PINE64official/comments/ktvcny/pinephone_as_a_daily_driver_a_nonpredetermined/">Day 10</a>. <em>Interesting series.</em></li>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2021/01/08/this-week-in-kde-new-kwin-compositing-new-kickoff-new-recording-level-visualization/">This week in KDE: new KWin compositing, new Kickoff, new recording level visualization!</a>. <em>This is the backstory to the compositor improvement that helped with Plasma Mobiles' overall performance.</em></li>
<li>GNOME Shell and Mutter development blog: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/01/07/a-shell-ux-update/">A shell UX update</a>. <em>This is also relevant for the PinePhone and Librem 5, as it could be handy when connected to a larger screen or for those who insist on running full GNOME on their PinePhone.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>As <a href="https://twitter.com/whatsmieasms/status/1346569435625230337">@whatsmieasms points out on Twitter</a>, Galaxy S20 Ultra Battery cases almost fit the PinePhone. <em>I'd recommend waiting for PINE64's official keyboard case which is going to have an integrated battery, but if you can't wait and need more battery life, this might be worth considering.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>LinuxLounge: <a href="https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/14b78b66-b7bd-41c4-b245-bc87eb89b545">PinePhone Accessories Unboxing! (Clear Case, Glass Screen Protector and Plain Back Cover)</a>. <em>If you have wondered what the official PinePhone accessories are like, this video should be helpful.</em></li>
<li>Pedro Francisco: <a href="https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/9044d105-bfb1-4e42-9d55-190fb0107b52">Sailfish, Manjaro Phosh y Manjaro Plasma Mobile en el PinePhone</a>. <em>Spanish video about three different PinePhone OS.</em></li>
<li>Terminal_Heat_Sink: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgdAMhqSeA">PinePhone Pine64 Screen Repair / Replacement / Fix Display Artifacts</a>. <em>If you wanted to know how you could replace a broken PinePhone display, this is how you would do it.</em></li>
<li>UltimatePisman: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkHFAnmBxA">【その他】PinephoneというLinuxスマホをパソコンに化してみたww</a>. <em>A japanese video showing GIMP and PinePhone convergence.</em></li>
<li>Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://lbry.tv/@RTP:9/howto-portsentry-on-linux-pinephone-to:3">Howto: Portsentry On Linux/Pinephone Detect Stealth Portscans, Have Attacker IP Emailed To Us</a>. <em>I actually learned something when I watched this video.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>I wrote a <a href="https://linmob.net/2021/01/09/my-setup-with-danctnix-archlinuxarm.html">blog post</a> about my setup, which ended up being surprisingly long one.
I have uploaded one new video about "Firefox Profiles and Site Specific Browsers on the PinePhone". As always, you can watch it on </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/165ca7c9-aa35-4b07-867f-74064542c9fd">PeerTube</a>,</li>
<li><a href="https://lbry.tv/@linmob:3/firefox-profiles-and-site-specific:c">LBRY</a>,</li>
<li>and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7aLE8jBOPc">YouTube</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>I added some scripts, .desktop files and my config.xml for SuperTuxKart <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io">to the repository</a>. That aside, just <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">a few additions and some maintenance happened</a>. Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/tasks.md">do contribute</a>!</p>