LINux on MOBile - PINE64LINMOB.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.Zola2024-03-14T00:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/tags/pine64/feed.xmlUsing the PinePhone Pro daily, despite having given up on it2024-01-06T19:24:17+00:002024-03-14T00:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/using-the-pinephone-pro-daily-despite-having-given-up-on-it/<p><em>After my <a href="https://linmob.net/enter-beepy-esc/">failure with Beepy</a>, and
inspired by the <a href="https://liliputing.com/lichee-console-4a-is-a-mini-laptop-with-a-risc-v-processor-and-7-inch-display/">SiPeed Lichee Pi4a Console</a>, I figured: Let's see if a micro-laptop
is still something my aging self finds useful.</em></p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="context">Context</h3>
<p>Even with a Linux phone, I've carried my Surface Go 2 with me on most occasions -
just like around 2010, when you would rarely find me without my EeePC. I just
like the comfort of a semi-fullsized keyboard, a large enough screen. While the
Surface Go 2 is a tablet, I rarely use it without the keyboard connected, it's
very much my 2020s netbook.<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup></p>
<p>Long story short: The Surface Go 2 is almost perfect<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#2">2</a></sup>, but something, that
fits into the pants or jacket pocket would be, if still usable enough, even
more convenient.</p>
<p>Before buying the SiPeed Console, I figured: Let's try that rarely used
PinePhone Pro with the PinePhone Keyboard accessory, which had long been half-
defect (the battery part had stopped working). I fortunately had a ordered a
replacement mainboard for the keyboard months earlier, and guess what:
Exchanging the mainboard was easy enough and fixed the issue. I would finally
use two items that had seen way less use than I had hoped for when purchasing.</p>
<h3 id="the-pinephone-keyboard">The PinePhone Keyboard</h3>
<p>The Keyboard accessory was first sold on the <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/12/31/happy-new-year-the-keyboard-and-cases-are-here/">very last day of 2021</a>, and is an
i2c connected keyboard cover featuring a 6000mAh battery. It can be a bit
finicky: The PINs do not always fit perfectly on the first try, at least with
the OG AllWinner A64 powered PinePhone - I have not had any issues with my
PinePhone Pro.</p>
<p>When I first tried it, software support was still problematic: Distributions
did not ship a proper keymap yet. I can't really comment how this is right now -
DanctNIX does not seem to apply the keymap in my testing, postmarketOS, how
ever does so. There's also more than one approach to being able to type
each and every character: Ship a keymap, enable a service, and who knows what
else. </p>
<p>I also did not like the key travel and general mushiness - I also don't use a
mechanical keyboard. I had previously converted a PSION PDA into a PinePhone
keyboard<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#3">3</a></sup>, and it really spoiled me - I still prefer its firm, silent typing
experience over the clicky, mushy PinePhone keyboard - YMMV!</p>
<p>The keyboard is also not backlit, and while I am usually a touch typist, which
makes this not much of an issue on "normal" keyboards, the non-standard PinePhone Keyboard
takes a bit of time to learn and get used to in the dark. Speaking of LEDs:
an indicator for charge level of the keyboards battery or at least a charging
state LED (does it currently power the phone?) would be really helpful. </p>
<p>Then there was another issue that kept me from using the keyboard: I don't like
16:9 laptops, and PinePhones are even wider at 18:9. <a href="https://phosh.mobi/">Phosh</a>, usually my favorite
mobile shell, with its top and bottom bar takes too much of the precious
vertical space. Sure, you can somewhat mitigate this by choosing a different
scaling factor (1.5, 1.25 or even 1.0), but still - swiping up from the bottom
is not much fun with the keyboard attached.</p>
<p>IMHO, Sxmo (with Sway) is a better choice when having a phone - but more on
that later.</p>
<h3 id="the-pinephone-pro">The PinePhone Pro</h3>
<p>Let's talk PinePhone Pro. The PinePhone Pro, <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/10/15/october-update-introducing-the-pinephone-pro/">announced in October 2021</a> was
supposed to solve the performance issues of the original, AllWinner
A64-"powered" PinePhone and deliver a more mainstream compatible, mainline
Linux phone.</p>
<p>For (potentially) various reasons, it has not lived up to this promise (yet). Almost two
years in, battery life remains abysmal - standby is okay, but don't you
browse the web or do something else. I have not conducted measurements, but
I think less than two hours of active use battery life is a fair estimate -
depending on what you do it may be less - even only 45 minutes.</p>
<p>That said, it's not like there are no laudable developments. To name on
example the cameras work with Snapshot and other apps that support the
libcamera+pipewire stack.<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#4">4</a></sup> Granted, the main camera stops working after
the first wake-up from suspend, but still - it's an important achievement,
as this also means camera support in Firefox these days and thus video chat.</p>
<h3 id="the-surprise">The surprise</h3>
<p>To summarize: I had two things lying around, that both had their deficits.
Combined, however, it's a lot better - as a micro laptop, the PinePhone Pro
is surprisingly fun and useful.</p>
<p>Now how do I use it?</p>
<p>Let's start with the use-case. I don't use the device as a phone, but as a
LTE-enabled micro-laptop. I decided to use <a href="https://sxmo,org">Sxmo</a> (on <a href="https://postmarketos.org/">postmarketOS</a>, at first edge,
now v23.12), as I like having a large
number of virtual workspaces, and - due to sticking with the default 200%
scaling, mostly terminal apps.</p>
<p>Why? Many GUI apps simly don't work well with a screen height of 360 points
minus swaybar. In theory, fully adaptive apps (at least for GNOME) <a href="https://developer.gnome.org/hig/guidelines/adaptive.html">should work</a>,
but ... I totally get why many don't work on a height of 294 pixels/points.</p>
<p>Also, Sxmo is very convienient when connecting a display and keyboard to the device.
It's like your usual tiling desktop PC, only, due to hardware limitations, a tad slower.
Virtual workspaces are just nice.</p>
<p>I could go through all the apps I use, but who has the time. Beyond some nice
mobile apps, like <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/app.drey.warp/">Warp</a>, <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/dev.geopjr.tuba/">Tuba</a> and <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/com.belmoussaoui.authenticator/">Authenticator</a>, I use a bunch of terminal apps, including, but not limited to, <a href="https://tut.anv.nu/">tut</a>, <a href="https://aerc-mail.org/">aerc</a>, <a href="https://www.vim.org/">vim</a>, and <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">emacs</a> (for <a href="https://orgmode.org/">Org Mode</a>).
In fact, while I am still quite inexperienced and not super effective in emacs and Org Mode,
I consider it the killer app of this micro laptop.</p>
<p>I browse the Web with Firefox, made useful by <a href="https://codeberg.org/user0/mobile-config-firefox/src/branch/fenix">user0</a> and enhanced by <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/">uMatrix</a> and <a href="https://tridactyl.xyz/about/">Tridactyl</a>.</p>
<p>Do I need to mention that I don't use this for phone calls?</p>
<h3 id="related-video">Related Video</h3>
<p>If you prefer visual things with audio, I recorded a video for you:</p>
<iframe title="How I started using the PinePhone Pro after giving up on it + FOSDEM 2024 preview" width="560" height="315" src="https://tilvids.com/videos/embed/712c594c-2e68-4aee-9172-dd73c4131f6e" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups"></iframe>
<p>Video link: <a href="https://tilvids.com/w/eYyhq5SJcY9DzF3VSpUE5w">TilVids</a></p>
<h3 id="addition-2024-03-14">Addition, 2024-03-14</h3>
<p>I seem to have <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/112095728804344846">hardware issues with the Keyboard again</a> - likely solvable. (I write "seem to", because it might just be bad luck with seating the connector - I've had that before.)</p>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
<p>After the EeePC, a number of ARM-powered Chromebooks, mostly booting Arch
Linux ARM served that niche.</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="2"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">2</sup>
<p>I keep watching buy-stuff-used websites for an affordable variant of
the SF2 Go with 256 GB storage and LTE, and am really disappointed with the
Surface Go 4, that has dropped LTE and still is knee-capped with only 8GB
of RAM and non-user-upgradable storage, which really killed my initial
excitement about seeing the N200 Alder Lake APU instead of Amber Lake Y.</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="3"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">3</sup>
<p>See the first seconds of the mid-2021 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4RC3Miuo2A">PinePhone software progress video</a> for a visual. I bought a broken Psion MX 5, and
[this adapter on tindie], and cobbled it together. The keyboard is then being
connected to the phone via USB-C.</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="4"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">4</sup>
<p>To make flatpak apps work with the camera, you need a proper portals setup. Installing <code>xdg-desktop-portal-gtk</code>, <code>xdg-desktop-portal-wlr</code> and <code>sway-portalsconf</code> did the trick for me. For Phosh users: Installing <code>phosh-portalsconf</code>
instead of the <code>sxmo-...</code> package should do the trick for you.</p>
</div>
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (32/2023): Summer: FrOSCon slides and not much more2023-08-12T13:00:00+00:002023-08-12T13:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-32-2023/<p>Also: A soon happening PINE64 community meetup, a new GloDroid release for the OG PinePhone, an upcoming talk on mobile NixOS and more!</p>
<p><em>This one is a day early once again. As an added bonus, the next one may be delayed to Monday - but that's not set in stone, yet.</em></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/2023/08/twig-108/">#108 Sandboxed Images</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@schmiddionmobile/110860276162099060">Schmiddi on Mobile: "Hello world!We're a group dedicated to creating beautiful apps for your #mobilelinux devices.…" - Fosstodon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://h4.io/@semiprime/110859610991052289">Matt Lewis: "For anyone after a #Psion Agenda-like experience on a #MobileLinux #PDA, I've just released v0.2.9 of #Pygenda (alpha, WIP!).…" - h4.io</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="phosh">Phosh</h4>
<ul>
<li>Guido Günther: <a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/110866040030367813">Car picks up the bluetooth audio from my #Librem5 running #phosh just fine:1️⃣ /3️⃣</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-ecosystem">Plasma Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/04/this-week-in-kde-porting-dolphin-and-kwin/">This week in KDE: porting, Dolphin, and KWin</a></li>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/05/bug-fixes-are-a-good-thing-not-a-bad-thing/">Bug fixes are a good thing, not a bad thing</a></li>
<li>k3yss: <a href="https://k3yss.github.io/posts/gsoc_blog5/">GSoC'23 July Report | Further Progress on the Moderation Tools #5</a></li>
<li>Quantum Productions: <a href="https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2023-08/remote-desktop-using-rdp-protocol-plasma-wayland">Remote Desktop using the RDP protocol for Plasma Wayland</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=wiki-transition-debate">wiki-transition-debate [Mobian Wiki]</a></li>
<li>GloDroid for PinePhone: <a href="https://github.com/GloDroidCommunity/pine64-pinephone/releases/tag/2023w31">2023w31</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@droidian/110845389305193736">Droidian Linux: "#Fingerprint support for Exynos…"</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="apps">Apps</h4>
<ul>
<li>LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/me.kozec.syncthingtk/">Syncthing GTK</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="kernel">Kernel</h4>
<ul>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20230807-pxa1908-lkml-v4-0-cb387d73b452@skole.hr/">[PATCH v4 0/8] Initial Marvell PXA1908 support</a></li>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/169176724021.691796.4516185582008783101.b4-ty@kernel.org/">Re: [PATCH] clk: qcom: gcc-sm6350: Fix gcc_sdcc2_apps_clk_src</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="stack">Stack</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-VirGL-AV1-Decode">AV1 Video Decoding Added To Mesa's VirGL For QEMU/KVM Guests</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/08/11/this-week-in-matrix-2023-08-11/">This Week in Matrix 2023-08-11</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth Noting</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.online/@auspicacious/110846278757756330">Andrew Todd: "Emacs 29.1 can be built in the PGTK or "pure GTK" configuration -- which doesn't sound that interesting until you realize…"</a> <em>Wayland native!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://qoto.org/@lupyuen/110846348063641871">Lup Yuen Lee 李立源: "A tribute to Bram Moolenaar, the maestro behind Vim…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://scholar.social/@zerodivision/110843435288379864">Wolfgang Maier: "if there is at least some interest in making TB more usable on #LinuxMobile, then a few not too complicated steps would be…"</a></li>
<li>[Jarno: "This is what Linux on mobile needs to solve. Especially the "if you're lucky" part.…]"(https://mastonederland.nl/@jarno/110842261244434652</li>
<li><a href="https://social.defenestrate.it/notice/AYVdGM55ZpsPbG9DtY">@matthewcroughan: "Can your phone do this? #nixos #mobilenixos"</a>. <em>Looking forward to a recoding of the Talk at CCCamp!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://crab.garden/@alice/110850458185687436">Alice: "libadwaita update, long Last …"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.io/@tchx84/110866820804605659">Martín Abente Lahaye: "There's still a lot of work to…" - Mastodon</a> <em>GTK4/libadwaita for Portfolio!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.online/@DrewNaylor/110872772895800314">Drew Naylor: "Got tired of tiles not being moveable or even able to have four small ones next to each other in a square and I decided to start integrating TilesGrid.…" - Mastodon</a>. <em>Retiled is a nice project!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kop316/110873301255378975">Chris: "I'm really excited for the next release of geoclue: I have worked with the devs to make it functional with #mobilelinux: …"</a>. <em>Great work, Chris!</em></li>
<li>r/MobileLinux: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilelinux/comments/15jt71j/plasma_mobile_alongside_android/">Plasma Mobile alongside Android</a></li>
<li>PINE64official (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/15n92px/pine64_nixos/">Pine64 NixOs</a></li>
<li>PINE64official (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/15mjgc4/daily_driver_which_pp_should_i_get/">Daily driver: Which PP should I get?</a></li>
<li>PINE64official (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/15ll654/external_storage/">External storage</a></li>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/my-quest-to-eliminate-passwords/21076">My quest to eliminate passwords</a></li>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-application-support/21054">Librem 5 application support</a></li>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/linux-mobile-debugging-for-everyone/21046">Linux Mobile debugging for everyone</a></li>
<li>Lemmy - postmarketOS: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/3167313">[Issue] No space left after fresh install</a></li>
<li>Lemmy - linuxphones: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/2958117">An app that notifies about people birthdays</a></li>
<li>Lemmy - linuxphones: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/2981126">Finished Portland missions in GTA 3</a></li>
<li>Lemmy - linuxphones: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/2968219">What phone would you recommend that's well supported for battery life?</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/review/downfall">Intel DOWNFALL: New Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512 With Big Performance Implications</a>. <em>Assuming you use desktop Linux, too, you should not miss this and the next one.</em></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-INCEPTION">AMD "INCEPTION" CPU Vulnerability Disclosed</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth Reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>lowendlibre: <a href="https://lowendlibre.github.io/posts/from-zero-to-kernel/">From Zero to Kernel</a></li>
<li>amosbbatto: <a href="https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2023/08/08/installing-pureos-and-mobian/">Installing PureOS in the Purism Librem 5 and Mobian in the PinePhone</a>
<ul>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/how-to-install-pureos-on-the-librem-5/21055">How to install PureOS on the Librem 5</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://programm.froscon.org/2023/events/2991.html">Lecture: Logs and backtraces: How to provide meaningful problem reports | Sunday | Schedule FrOSCon 2023</a> <em>The talk was not recorded, but make sure to read the slides.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://programm.froscon.org/2023/events/3014.html">Lecture: Supervising student projects in the FOSS Mobile space | Sunday | Schedule FrOSCon 2023</a>. <em>Dito!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://programm.froscon.org/2023/events/2989.html">Lightning talk: Lightning Talks II | Sunday | Schedule FrOSCon 2023</a> <em>The slides to the FOSS on Feature Phones talk are in German, but should be easily translatable.</em></li>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2023/08/12/quick-update-whats-going-on/">Quick update: What’s going on?</a> <em>Meetup next weekend!</em></li>
<li>Terrence Eden: <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/08/should-your-phone-be-a-webserver/">Should your phone be a webserver?</a></li>
<li>Tom Nardy for Hackaday: <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/08/07/review-beepy-a-palm-sized-linux-hacking-playground/">Review: Beepy, A Palm-sized Linux Hacking Playground</a>. <em>If it weren't for an <a href="https://myhermes.de">incompetent logistics company</a>, I could share some impressions of my own.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@devrtz/110876559592436170">devrtz: "Last week parts of the #MobileLinux community got together at #FrOSCon and, dare I say, had a great time in our "FOSS on Mobile" devroom 🌈…"</a>. <em>Nice round-up!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth Watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>mkiol: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTsM3kUxE2Q">Speech Note 4.0 on Pine Phone</a></li>
<li>熊小白: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGVUTDx-ruc">JingPad Ubuntu Touch Linux Tablet 千元价格的Linux平板电脑</a></li>
<li>devrtz: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u5uQ0UrJ8">2023 - The year of Linux On Desktop^WMobile</a>
<ul>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/froscon-2023-the-year-of-linux-on-desktop-wmobile/21026">FrOSCon 2023: The year of Linux On Desktop^WMobile</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>CyberPunkEdu: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5-TtUnIgbg">How to use Libertine / Desktop Apps on Ubuntu Touch - Pixel 3a - GIMP</a></li>
<li>mkiol: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88cdPpvBmmI">Speech Note 4.0 for Sailfish OS - Offline Machine Translator</a></li>
<li>mkiol: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTCwWwko7lU">Papago 2.0 for Sailfish OS - Offline live speech translation</a></li>
<li>Prend Workbench: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONyuFwIVY7g">My Tiny Laptop Got New Postmarket OS Upgrade!</a>. <em>Nice micro-Laptop!</em></li>
<li>xxz saga: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iijThtKpkLw">Ubuntu Touch xemu</a></li>
<li>Yura Beznos: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtGCwiasyIM">Screen Recorder test on Sailfish OS / Intex Aquafish / Jolla C</a></li>
<li>FydeOS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMIizCsAguc">Introducing FydeOS v17: "Nostalgic Reflections"</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>
My Linux Phone Setup (November 2021)2021-11-06T20:32:18+00:002021-11-12T14:31:00+00:00https://linmob.net/my-linux-phone-setup-november-2021/<p>I wrote up what I did then use in <a href="https://linmob.net/my-setup-with-danctnix-archlinuxarm/">January</a>. Back then I thought I would update this at the latest after six months, but … well, let's update it now. Back then I only wrote about the PinePhone, and as it's the Linux Phone I use most regularly (and I likely would not use different apps on another device), I'll limit my post to my PinePhone's DanctNIX install again.</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h2 id="what-changed">What changed?</h2>
<p>When I started to write this post, I thought that my setup did not change that much – writing it made me realize this is not true, and a lot of changes have accumulated. But that perception also was not entirely wrong: If I had not had a brief stint with postmarketOS Edge, it would have even still been the very same DanctNIX install, since it just does not break despite me trying hard with all the software I try for LinuxPhoneApps.org. I stopped using Flatpaks, as it had somehow started to use more than 7 Gigabytes on my phone. This did not bother me too much until I required more space to try out <a href="https://linmob.net/my-linux-phone-setup-november-2021/#waydroid">WayDroid</a>, but then I had to do something and removing Flatpaks was the easiest option.</p>
<h3 id="gnome-web-as-default-web-browser-and-as-web-app-runner">GNOME Web as default web browser (and as web app runner)</h3>
<p>Let's start with a big change, as browsers are apps I think we all use a lot: I made <strong><a href="https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Epiphany/">GNOME Web</a></strong> (epiphany) my default browser: It's still slower than Firefox (which I still have installed), but it got faster enough with the past releases<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup> so that using it is bearable, mainly because it's faster at starting up, which is a welcome benefit. Since I try to mostly use light-weight websites on my PinePhone if possible, it's good enough. Another nice benefit of GNOME Web is gesture navigation to go back and forth. </p>
<p>Also, with Firefox dropping the SSB feature, my Matrix client <strong><a href="https://hydrogen.element.io">Hydrogen</a></strong> is now running as GNOME Web web app (<a href="https://linmob.net/my-linux-phone-setup-november-2021/#matrix-hydrogen">more on that below</a>).</p>
<p><em>The following is the mostly the old post, but ordered into categories.</em></p>
<h3 id="secondary-browsers">Secondary browsers</h3>
<h4 id="angelfish">Angelfish</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Angelfish</strong> (plasma-angelfish, AUR): The Plasma Mobile browser that I use a lot.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I still have <a href="https://apps.kde.org/angelfish/">Angelfish</a> installed, but I use it less often these days. It progressed nicely though, its adblocker is great, and on Plasma Mobile it can be used to turn websites into web apps.</p>
<h4 id="firefox">Firefox</h4>
<p>Regarding Firefox, you may remember <a href="https://gitlab.com/1peter10/mobile-config-firefox/-/tree/proton-tab-hack">my adjusted configuration of mobile-config-firefox</a>, which I still use. Also, I am using two plugins in Firefox:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/">uBlock origin</a> (duh!), and</li>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/">Privacy Redirect</a>, to avoid slowly loading, JavaScript-heavy social media websites and get to the content faster.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="calendaring-tasks-and-email">Calendaring, tasks and email</h3>
<h4 id="calindori">Calindori</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Calindori</strong> (calindori-git (AUR)): Plasma Mobile calendar. I am going to <a href="https://dimitris.cc/kde/2020/12/30/Online_Calendars.html">set it up to sync</a>, but I didn't not get around to that yet.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I never got around to setting up sync, and these days Calindori is <a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/calindori/-/issues/18">looking for a new maintainer</a>.</p>
<h4 id="now-gnome-calendar-adaptive">Now: GNOME Calendar (adaptive)</h4>
<p>I switched to the <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/debs/gnome-calendar">adaptive downstream</a> build of GNOME Calendar, as that integrates seamlessly with Phosh and GNOME Online Accounts. To install it, I used <a href="https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/community/phosh/gnome-calendar-mobile">Manjaro's PKGBUILD</a> — these days it's also packaged in DanctNIX (gnome-calendar-mobile). Now, this adaptation build of GNOME Calendar is not perfect, e.g. it lacks a day view (just like upstream GNOME Calendar does, where GNOME Shell somewhat delivers a day view), which is something you'd really want on a phone. Also, it does not fit the screen perfectly without <code>scale-to-fit org.gnome.calendar on</code> yet. We'll get there, and being able to sync calendars with my Nextcloud is great! </p>
<h4 id="other-option-kalendar">Other option: Kalendar</h4>
<p>If I knew how to integrate my Nextcloud calendar set up for it (namely which settings app I have to install) or if I ran Plasma Mobile (which I will certainly give another shot once Modem Manager lands), I would likely use <a href="https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar">Kalendar</a> instead, as it has that neat day view. I have it installed (AUR: kalendar-git) and try to monitor its progression.</p>
<h4 id="evolution">Evolution</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Evolution</strong> (evolution): Mail client. This is not adjusted for the mobile form factor at all, but once a few elements are hidden, it works ok. I mainly use it, because I had serious bad luck with Geary, which sometimes would not fetch my mails.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>While Geary has since improved and Geary upstream works great on phones since GNOME 40, I am still using Evolution with scale-to-fit. I just like to have an option for plain text email and GPG.</p>
<h4 id="gnome-to-do">GNOME To Do</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>To Do</strong> (gnome-to-do-mobile, Manjaro package): This is the mobile-friendly downstream of Gnome To Do which basically is a simple To Do manager that integrates nicely with Nextcloud. I had to steal Manjaro's package here, I would have prefered to just steal their PKGBUILD but was unable to find it on their GitLab.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I still use GNOME To Do, but switched to the regular package, and made it work with <code>scale-to-fit org.gnome.Todo on</code>. </p>
<h3 id="image-viewing">Image viewing</h3>
<h4 id="image-viewer-eog">Image Viewer (eog)</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Image Viewer</strong> (eog): This really should be preinstalled.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<h4 id="now-image-roll">Now: Image Roll</h4>
<p>I am no longer using <code>eog</code>, but switched to <a href="https://github.com/weclaw1/image-roll">Image Roll</a> (AUR: image-roll) instead, as it just has a few more features that are nice to have. Also, it is written in Rust.<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#2">2</a></sup></p>
<h3 id="video">Video</h3>
<h4 id="mpv">mpv</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>mpv</strong> (mpv): Always good to have this one around.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Still true. Admittedly, I don't really watch video on my PinePhone (or any other phone), which is something that might change once I have the keyboard dock (to have better battery life) or after GStreamer 1.20 lands, which will help with hardware accelerated video playback.</p>
<h4 id="purism-stream">Purism Stream</h4>
<p>Another app I used while it worked was <a href="https://source.puri.sm/todd/Stream">Purism's work-in-progress Stream app</a>, which is a YouTube app that makes use of invidious instances to preserve user privacy. Currently, it seems to have issues in finding a suitable instance, which sounds fixable – but sadly not for me.</p>
<h3 id="music-streaming">Music streaming</h3>
<h4 id="youtube-audio-youplay">YouTube audio: YouPlay</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>YouPlay</strong> (not packaged): A simple YouTube music downloader. I rarely use it, but it was fun to try to write a stupid local installer. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I did not reinstall <a href="https://codeberg.org/ralfhersel/youplay">YouPlay</a>, since I don't listen to music often and when I do, YouTube is not typically the place I go for music. If you are looking for a YouTube app for Music, I'd still recommend it or <a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/audiotube">AudioTube</a>.</p>
<h4 id="new-spot">New: Spot</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/xou816/spot">Spot</a></strong> (AUR: spot-client) is an excellent app for Spotify Premium subscribers, built in GTK4 and libadwaita. I know, it doesn't make sense to subscribe given I rarely listen to music, but since I am currently subscribed to that service, I use Spot.</p>
<h3 id="file-sync">File sync</h3>
<h4 id="nextcloud-client">Nextcloud Client</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Nextcloud</strong> (nextcloud-client): Works terribly (scale-to-fit com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud on helps with initial setup), but I had to start using this as Notes (gnome-notes) would take ages to sync my Notes folder because it does not seem to cache locally. The good thing is: It only has to be setup once.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Still using this for an always reliable file option sync for whenever WebDAV is not working because of bad connectivity.</p>
<h3 id="note-taking">Note taking</h3>
<h4 id="notorious">Notorious</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Notorious</strong> (notorious-git(AUR)): Replaced Gnome Notes as my editor when I switched over to the above sync solution. It's fine, but I might try ThiefMD (AUR: thiefmd) as well soon.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Same here, in conjunction with Nextcloud Client this is an important tool for collecting items I might otherwise forget for LinBits or LINMOBapps.</p>
<h3 id="passwords-and-authentication">Passwords and authentication</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-password-safe">GNOME Password Safe</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Password Safe</strong> (gnome-passwordsafe): Client to use KeePass databases. While it was dreadfully slow with my database earlier, this improved lately, so that I now longer need to use KeePassXC on my phone.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I am still happy with Password Safe. I would like it to be faster, but it works well enough.</p>
<h4 id="otpclient">OTPClient</h4>
<p>For OTP, I have added <a href="https://github.com/paolostivanin/OTPClient">OTPClient</a> (AUR: otpclient), which works well and is a decent and seemingly often overlooked app in the OTP space. Given Numberstations new import and export feature, I might switch to Numberstation eventually though for its integration with Megapixels.</p>
<h3 id="messaging">Messaging</h3>
<h4 id="multi-protocol-pidgin">Multi protocol (Pidgin)</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pidgin</strong> (pidgin): This is a piece of really old GTK2-software, but as its <em>libpurple</em> is what Chatty is building upon, I decided to add it to my setup. For it to run, Chatty has to be killed, which is why I had to add a script and a launcher to easily do this. Pidgin is interesting as it supports many services such as Discord, Signal, Threema etc. via plugin. I'll report back on this once I've set up some of these services.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Sadly, I never got to a point to share a success story - while I got Discord and Signal to a somewhat workable state, it did not work well enough: Receiving messages and finding chats was hit and miss. Therefore, I no longer have Pidgin installed.</p>
<h4 id="matrix-hydrogen">Matrix: Hydrogen</h4>
<p>While I was using <a href="https://hydrogen.element.io">Hydrogen</a> (in Firefox) in January and I am using it now again, this has not been the case for the entire time. I have dabbled with <strong><a href="https://nheko-reborn.github.io/">Nheko</a></strong>, which is pretty great since their 0.8.2 release, and <strong><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/fractal/-/tree/fractal-next">Fractal Next</a></strong>, the GTK4/libadwaita future of Fractal (which is not really ready yet), which is perfectly alright for unreleased software.
There's only one reason I switched away from Nheko and went back to Hydrogen: Nheko is only available on the AUR, and requires a (time-intensive) rebuild whenever one of its dependencies gets upgraded, which is happening quite often on Arch Linux ARM.</p>
<h4 id="new-axolotl-signal-client">New: Axolotl (Signal client)</h4>
<p>Instead of dabbling with Pidgin to obtain a working Signal client, I ended up installing <a href="https://github.com/nanu-c/axolotl">Axolotl</a> (AUR: axolotl-bin). Installing it is easy enough from the AUR, which is recycling the <a href="https://github.com/nuehm-arno/axolotl-mobian-package">excellent Debian package work done by Arno Nühm</a>. <del>Sadly, anything Electron still comes with some XWayland blurriness by default,</del>While Axolotl from 1.0.7 going forward is no longer blurry (thanks Ferenc for your <a href="https://github.com/nanu-c/axolotl/pull/619">great work</a> and telling me about it!), I opted to go with a GNOME Web based setup to interface with it. To do so I downloaded the <a href="https://github.com/nuehm-arno/axolotl-mobian-package/blob/main/axolotl-server.desktop">axolotl-server.desktop</a> file from Arno's repo and put it into <code>/etc/xdg/autostart/</code>, opened <code>127.0.0.1:9080</code> in GNOME Web and tapped "Install Site as Web Application". This way, Axolotl is always running, and I don't need to toggle Squeekboard in order to type something. Also, once I use the phone, I'll get a notification if I have new Signal messages.<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#3">3</a></sup></p>
<h4 id="new-xmpp-dino-feature-handy-branch">New: XMPP: Dino (feature/handy branch)</h4>
<p>For XMPP I am relying on the <a href="https://github.com/dino/dino/tree/feature/handy">adaptive/mobile-friendly libhandy-enabled branch of Dino</a>, which I also use on my desktop. The main reason for this is OMEMO encryption and interoperability with my other clients - while Chatty can support XMPP and also OMEMO, it did not play well with my Dino install on desktop, so that I did not see messages I wrote in Chatty on Dino and vice versa.<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#4">4</a></sup></p>
<h4 id="new-kdeltachat-deltachat-clients">New: KDeltaChat (DeltaChat clients)</h4>
<p><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~link2xt/kdeltachat">KDeltaChat</a> (kdeltachat-git) is a Kirigami client for DeltaChat, the email-based messenger, so that you don't have to use the Electron-based DeltaChat desktop app (which also works on mobile). I recommend giving it a try, I'm at delta@linmob.net.</p>
<h4 id="telegram-desktop">Telegram Desktop</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Telegram desktop</strong> (telegram-desktop): I am not a massive fan of this service, but there are activities in my life that basically require using this. While I also have Telegram set up in Chatty (and thus Pidgin, which is way more useful as an interface than Chatty currently is), I sometimes start this app to browse Telegram. With a <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/raw/master/desktop-files/fixes/telegramdesktop.desktop">modified .desktop file</a> it works just fine.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<h4 id="now-telegrand">Now: Telegrand</h4>
<p>I am no longer running Telegram desktop, but use a git-build of <a href="https://github.com/melix99/telegrand">Telegrand</a> (a GTK4/libadwaita telegram client; AUR: telegrand-git), which I would only recommend if you don't use Telegram a lot for now.</p>
<h3 id="news-and-podcasts">News and Podcasts</h3>
<h4 id="newsflash">NewsFlash</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>NewsFlash</strong> (newsflash-git (AUR)): I use this to follow the news, as I am an RSS addict since I was first told about RSS. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I removed NewsFlash (I just did not use it a lot and only realized I still had it installed during updates) and just use <a href="https://miniflux.app">Miniflux</a>'s web interface in GNOME Web these days. This does not mean that NewsFlash is not a great app, it definitely is - and you can get it from the Arch Linux ARM community repo these days, the package name is <code>newsflash</code>.</p>
<h4 id="gnome-podcasts">GNOME Podcasts</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Podcasts</strong> (gnome-podcasts): I recommend importing an OPML file you exported from your previous Podcast client for this app, as you would have to hunt for feed URLs (which for some podcasts is unacceptably hard) otherwise.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<h4 id="now-kasts">Now: Kasts</h4>
<p>These days I am using <strong><a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/kasts">Kasts</a></strong> (AUR: kasts-git) instead, as it has tons of neat features, including Podcast discovery via podcastindex.org or chapter markers. Also, it manages to inhibit PinePhone suspend, so that you can actually listen to full episodes. IMHO, Kasts is one of the best apps for the PinePhone, period.</p>
<h3 id="social-media">Social Media</h3>
<h4 id="twitter-cawbird">Twitter: Cawbird</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Cawbird</strong> (cawbird-git (AUR)): Twitter client. I switched to git when the 1.3.x release appeared.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I am now running the normal package from the community repository (currently 1.4.2), and it's still great and quite got a bit smoother.</p>
<h4 id="reddit-quickddit">Reddit: Quickddit</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Quickddit</strong> (quickddit (AUR)): Reddit client, originally developed for Ubuntu Touch. It's quite nice, and I just prefer it's wider feature set to Giara, which would be more native on Phosh.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<h4 id="now-headlines-previously-gtkeddit">Now: Headlines (previously Gtkeddit)</h4>
<p>No longer installed. For a while I went with <a href="https://giara.gabmus.org/">Giara</a>, these days I am using <strong><a href="https://gitlab.com/caveman250/Headlines">Headlines</a></strong>, a GTK4/libadwaita Reddit client written in C++, which does not match the feature set, but is smoother enough to give up on Multireddits.</p>
<h4 id="mastodon-tootle">Mastodon: Tootle</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tootle</strong> (tootle-git (AUR)): Mobile friendly Mastodon client. It's not perfect, but good enough for some light Mastodon interactions.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I am still using Tootle. For a while I was using the 2.0-alpha1 GTK4/libadwaita variant of it, but since then libadwaita development has outrun Tootle. Also, with Arch shipping Vala 0.54.3 currently, it's generally difficult to build Tootle on Arch Linux ARM.</p>
<p>I also use <a href="https://pinafore.social">Pinafore.social</a> as a GNOME Web app from time to time, as it allows to differentiate between all notifications and mentions. </p>
<h3 id="utilities">Utilities</h3>
<h4 id="backups">Backups</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Backups</strong> (deja-dup): To restore my backup and to backup my current setup. An alternative to this would be "Pika Backup", which is based on borg instead of duplicity.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I am still running deja-dup, having upgraded it to the deja-dup-git AUR package a while ago, which uses GTK4 and libadwaita and fits the screen perfectly. Once the release happens (likely around the time GNOME 42 gets release, but I am just guessing here), I'll add it to <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org">LinuxPhoneApps</a>.</p>
<h4 id="gnome-weather">GNOME Weather</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Weather</strong> (gnome-weather-git (AUR)): The mobile patches that have been available in Gnome Weather for PureOS and Mobian in a while seem to be making it upstream. The current version has issues when you install.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Still using Weather (now <code>gnome-weather</code> from the extra repo).</p>
<h4 id="new-birdie">New: Birdie</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/Dejvino/birdie">Birdie</a></strong> is a simple alarm clock.</p>
<h4 id="new-gnome-disks">New: GNOME Disks</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/">Disks</a></strong> (gnome-disk-utility) is fully mobile friendly. I rarely use it, but I keep it installed for these rare use-cases.</p>
<h4 id="new-gnome-maps">New: GNOME Maps</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Maps/">GNOME Maps</a></strong> (gnome-maps) is one of these apps, that's partially there – if I required navigation, it would not work well for me, as that part does not fit mobile screens well. I am just using it to check were I am if I ever get lost or to plan my routes manually, and for that it's more than adequate.</p>
<h4 id="new-kde-itinerary">New: KDE Itinerary</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://apps.kde.org/itinerary/">KDE Itinerary</a></strong> (itinerary) is a digital travel assistant supporting many features, including importing bookings and tickets. I used to it to travel by train in Germany successfully. It's great.</p>
<h4 id="new-ktrip">New: KTrip</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://apps.kde.org/ktrip/">KTrip</a></strong> is the matching travel companion app, that allows you to find journeys between specified locations. I used the <a href="https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/community/plamo-gear/ktrip">Manjaro PKGBUILD</a> to install it.</p>
<h4 id="new-pinephone-compass">New: PinePhone Compass</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://gitlab.com/lgtrombetta/pinephone-compass">PinePhone Compass</a></strong> is just a compass app. I mostly use it for fun.</p>
<h4 id="new-phosh-antispam-and-visual-voicemail">New: Phosh Antispam and Visual Voicemail</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://gitlab.com/kop316/phosh-antispam">Phosh Antispam</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://gitlab.com/kop316/vvmplayer">Visual Voicemail</a></strong> are two great utilities developed by <em>kop316</em> that do just what their name suggests. I have them mainly installed to check them out, as my cellular carrier does not even support Visual Voicemail. For Antispam I would like to have a Blacklist, as I am to lazy to reformat all phone numbers in my contacts to make sure white listing works - spam calls are way less of a problem in Germany and are limited to a handful of reoccuring numbers in my case.</p>
<h4 id="new-siglo-infinitime-client">New: Siglo (InfiniTime client)</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/alexr4535/siglo">Siglo</a></strong> (siglo) is an app I only use when something went wrong, or, to be more precise, when I managed to not charge my PineTime in too long, so that it turned off. Connecting it with Siglo sets the time, which is quite an important feature on a watch, right?</p>
<h3 id="no-longer-installed-and-not-replaced">No longer installed and not replaced</h3>
<h4 id="sip-and-more-jami">SIP and more: Jami</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Jami</strong> (jami-gnome): <a href="https://jami.net/">Jami</a> is an interesting service (you may know it under its previous name GNU Ring); unfortunately I don't know anyone who uses it. It can also be a SIP app, altough calls did not work out-of-the-box for me (and I did not have the time to tinker yet).</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I removed Jami after GNOME Calls shipped working SIP support.</p>
<h4 id="games-supertuxkart">Games: SuperTuxKart</h4>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>SuperTuxKart</strong> (supertuxkart): Once <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/raw/master/config/supertuxkart/config.xml"><code>~/.config/supertuxkart/config-0.10/</code></a> and the <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/raw/master/desktop-files/fixes/supertuxkart.desktop">launcher</a> are adjusted, the game works ok, at least with the less graphically challenging maps. I think it's just running on the CPU and not using the GPU, but I am not sure about that. Also, the proximity sensor interferes with it, which is annoying, but there seems to be a <a href="https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11168&pid=77588#pid77588">simple way to fix this</a>. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>No longer installed. Sorry, I just don't game.</p>
<h4 id="display-tweaks">Display tweaks</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>Also, I installed:</p>
<ul>
<li>wlr-randr and yad to use <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/easy-librem-5-app-development-scale-the-screen/">the script in this old blog post by Purism</a>. The script is quite helpful, and I look forward to doing more with yad in the future. Also, tor and tor-socks are installed, but that will follow later.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>This script is no longer necessary, as the GNOME Control Center app (settings) now has a similar feature.</p>
<h3 id="waydroid">WayDroid</h3>
<p>As mentioned above, I have <a href="https://waydro.id/">WayDroid</a> (waydroid) installed. I use it in single window mode - when I use it, which is quite rare. Aside from its startup time, WayDroid is quite fast once it's running. Sadly, it's also good at depleting the battery.
Here's what I installed on WayDroid:</p>
<ul>
<li>FDroid,</li>
<li>Aurora Store (a front-end for Google Play),</li>
<li>Discord (I wish there Web app was somewhat responsive).</li>
</ul>
<p>I rarely use WayDroid though. Native apps are what works better, and what's necessary for an attractive platform.<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#5">5</a></sup></p>
<h2 id="further-modifications">Further modifications</h2>
<p>Let's keep this short:</p>
<ul>
<li>I am running <a href="https://github.com/Biktorgj/pinephone_modem_sdk">Biktorgj's Modem firmware</a>,</li>
<li>this <a href="https://github.com/1peter10/linuxphone-tweaks/blob/main/etc/environment">is my /etc/environment</a>, </li>
<li>and I use <a href="https://git.kescher.at/jeremy.kescher/kescher-archpp/src/branch/testing/eg25-autorestart">this</a> to make the modem more reliable. </li>
</ul>
<p>I also replaced <code>gstreamer</code> with <code>gstreamer-git</code>.</p>
<h2 id="what-s-keeping-me-from-using-the-pinephone-as-a-daily-driver">What's keeping me from using the PinePhone as a daily driver?</h2>
<p>Aside from occasional reliability issues, and a few non-essential proprietary services (but that might even work with <a href="https://microg.org/">microG</a> on WayDroid), I might miss<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#6">6</a></sup>, it's mostly three things:</p>
<ul>
<li>Battery life, and</li>
<li>Speed,<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#7">7</a></sup></li>
<li>Camera.</li>
</ul>
<p>While general PinePhone battery life is okay, screen on time is just not long enough for my use - charging throughout the day would be necessary, but is not always possible. I hope that the PinePhone Pro is going to be better with regards to battery life, but even if it does not, it will at least most likely fix my other issues. The PinePhone Keyboard accessory shows that an external battery case is possible, so a fix is nigh, if not available yet.</p>
<p>To conclude: <em>We're getting there!</em></p>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
<p>GNOME Web 40.3 powered by WebKitGTK 2.34.1 is what I am currently using.</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="2"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">2</sup>
<p><em>Please note:</em> I stopped compiling Rust apps (like image-roll, telegrand, fractal-next, spot-client or gnome-podcasts and libraries like libdeltachat on the PinePhone and instead compile them on my <a href="https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/rockchip/asus-chromebook-flip-c101pa">ARM Chromebook</a>, which also runs Arch Linux ARM. The same goes for everything Electron (mainly for disk size reasons), or large libraries like <a href="https://github.com/tdlib/td">tdlib</a>. If you want to know how to setup the Arch User Repository (AUR) and ZRAM (which is also necessary on my Chromebook), see <a href="https://linmob.net/pinephone-building-plasma-mobile-apps-from-the-aur/">this old post of mine</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="3"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">3</sup>
<p>Tapping the notification does not open the Web App, sadly - but that's okay. If you are depending on push notifications: Those are a hard challenge (just look at Google-free AOSP ROMs) and are unlikely to happen soon. That said, if you are as much as an phone addict as I am, you're looking at that screen multiple times per hour anyway, so do you really need push notifications?</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="4"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">4</sup>
<p>If you want to run Dino, you can use <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/pkgbuilds/-/tree/main/dino-mobile-git">my PKGBUILD script</a> to install it.</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="5"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">5</sup>
<p>Make no mistake, I am very happy that Waydroid is a thing - for phones and also the Linux desktop. I contributed to their fundraiser, and you should too.</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="6"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">6</sup>
<p>I acknowledge I am privileged here since I don't need MMS or banking apps to work, which many other people do need.</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="7"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">7</sup>
<p>With regard to speed: PinePhone feels faster and smoother than it did in January, and in theory I could attempt the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@PINE64/107233869420315079">eMMC hardware modification</a> by symmetrist (<a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_(pine64-pinephone)#eMMC">documented on the postmarketOS wiki</a>) that's being discussed currently.</p>
</div>
LinBits 55: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 29/30)2021-07-28T21:49:00+00:002021-07-28T21:49:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-55-weekly-linux-phone-news-week29-30/<p><em>It's Wednesday. Now what happened since last Wednesday?</em></p>
<p>Nemo Mobile and WayDroid progress further, UBports plans for VoLTE, LINMOBapps hits 300 apps and more!<span id="continue-reading"></span> <em>Commentary in italics.</em> </p>
<h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Jozef Mlich set up a place to download current <a href="https://github.com/jmlich/nemo-images">Nemo Mobile images for PinePhone (based on Manjaro)</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you are having trouble with choosing the correct icon set on a system with a mixture of GTK and Qt/Kirigami apps, and would just love to set them to a native one each, <a href="https://twitter.com/nicofeee/status/1420047088767877123">here's something quite helpful</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/maemoleste/status/1418617227209752578">Maemo Leste has been ported to the 2011 Motorola Droid 3</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="nemo-mobile-awesomeness">Nemo Mobile awesomeness</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jozef Mlich: <a href="https://blog.mlich.cz/2021/07/nemomobile-in-july-2021-part-two/">Nemomobile in July/2021 part two</a>. <em>Great to see NemoMobile progress continue!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="video-recording">Video recording</h4>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/a-clunky-but-useable-method-for-recording-video-on-a-pinephone/">A clunky (but useable) method for recording video on a PinePhone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports News: <a href="https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/first-steps-in-volte-support-for-ubuntu-touch-3768">First steps in VoLTE support for Ubuntu Touch</a>. <em>This is very important, not just for North America!</em>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/ubports-plans-to-bring-volte-and-voice-over-wifi-support-to-ubuntu-touch/">UBPorts plans to bring VoLTE and Voice over WiFi support to Ubuntu Touch</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="kalender-and-tok-progress">Kalender and Tok progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Claudio Cambra: <a href="https://claudiocambra.com/2021/07/25/ticking-this-off-the-todo-list-kalendar-week-7-gsoc-2021/">Ticking this off the todo list — Kalendar week 7 (GSoC 2021)</a>. <em>Nice progess!</em></li>
<li>Janet Blackquill: <a href="https://blog.blackquill.cc/this-week-in-tok-days-of-work-seconds-of-experience">This Week In Tok: Days Of Work, Seconds Of Experience</a>. <em>Same here!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="purism">Purism</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-file-transfer/">Librem 5 File Transfer</a>. <em>I need to try that app!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-keyboard">PinePhone keyboard</h4>
<ul>
<li>xnux.eu: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#043">The latest Pinephone keyboard prototype</a>. <em>Another great, in-depth post by Megi on the upcoming PinePhone keyboard accessory.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="waydroid-formerly-known-as-new-anbox-or-anbox-halium">WayDroid (formerly known as "new Anbox" or "anbox-halium")</h4>
<ul>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/waydroid-anbox-linux-mainline-oneplus-6-6t-postmarketos/">OnePlus 6/6T Linux port now supports lag-free Android app integration thanks to WayDroid</a>. <em>This is really great, but keep in mind: It's not quite ready for end-users yet.</em></li>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/waydroid-lets-you-run-android-apps-on-linux-phones-with-smoother-performance-than-anbox/">WayDroid lets you run Android apps on Linux phones (with smoother performance than Anbox)</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="competition">Competition ;-)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/news-roundup-jingpad-a1-linux-tablet-pinephone-keyboard-and-more/">News roundup: JingPad A1 Linux tablet, PinePhone keyboard, and more</a>. <em>Nice roundup!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="introductions">Introductions</h4>
<ul>
<li>HomebrewXS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpadcM-_deA">SupernovaOS introduction</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tutorials">Tutorials</h4>
<ul>
<li>kdlk.de: tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ddxyS6Fqk">PinePhone App Development - Successful Cross Compilation x86_64 to ARM #01 Rust + GTK</a>. <em>Nice video! The complications of cross compiling have me compiling apps just on my ARM devices ;-) - and if that takes too long, [distcc] is your friend.</em></li>
<li>SSTec Tutorials: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nA4ZJR9jdo">How To Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Your Android Phone Or Tablet!</a>. <em>Simple, right? The most annoying part will be unlocking those Xiaomi Phones :)</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="waydroid">WayDroid</h4>
<ul>
<li>Caleb Connolly: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9qaD5YIPkc">#shorts | crossy road on my Linux phone (OnePlus 6 with mainline and #postmarketOS</a>. <em>The colors are off, but it's still amazing!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="librem-5-corner">Librem 5 corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaX9L85jhuM">Librem 5 File Transfer</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="jingos">JingOS</h4>
<ul>
<li>TechHut: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6TE2nZz3M">JingPad A1 - Hands On Review - ARM Linux Tablet with JingOS (Alpha/DVT)</a>. <em>Great unboxing and first impression video! Sadly, as neofetch reveals, this tablet runs Linux 4.14, which makes me quite sure that they are using Halium (or something similar) here and not a mainline kernel to pull it off. Other than that, it's quite amazing - both hardware and the pre-release software.</em></li>
<li>Thomas Triadi: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsR5BvyVU9g">JingOS Arm64 build, running on RPi 3B. testing 01</a>. <em>Turns out: JingOS can run on a lot less powerful hardware, too! If you're interested in this, Thomas seems to have more videos on his channel for you.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="guadec-2021">Guadec 2021</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bilal Elmoussaoui: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0preyzEb-fY&t=12284s">Writing applications using GTK 4 & Rust</a>.</li>
<li>Tobias Bernard: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHqkiSd1hQQ&t=11040s">Adaptive Apps: The Future is Now</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<ul>
<li>I have not been writing something new, only added another section to my old <a href="https://linmob.net/phosh-0-12-app-drawer/">Phosh 0.12 and its App Drawer refinement</a> post. In other news, this web page has a media-query based dark mode now, and the code of <a href="https://github.com/1peter10/minimola">the theme</a> used can be found on GitHub now.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<p>My past week was all about software:</p>
<ul>
<li>I forked <a href="https://github.com/cliftonts/rokugtk">rokugtk</a> in order to modernize it a bit, and eventually needed help with that, which thanks to <a href="https://github.com/1peter10/rokugtk/commits?author=shadowwolf899">shawdowwolf899</a> happened! Because free software is simply amazing, the resulting pull request has been accepted into the upstream project by now - only the ReadMe will need a bit more help. If you have a Roku, please do me a favour and test this by cloning the repo and running <code>./rokugtk.py</code>! <em>I might look into ways to make this more packagable in the future, pull requests welcome!</em></li>
<li>I also finally got around to playing with <a href="https://modrana.org/trac">modRana</a> (<a href="https://github.com/M4rtinK/modrana">GitHub</a>), a GPS navigation/Maps app. Because the <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/modrana/">AUR PKGBUILD</a> is hopelessly outdated, I put some time into <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/pkgbuilds">creating a PKGBUILD</a> to build it straight from git - check the README for caveats! <em>Please contact me, best via Merge Request, if you have improvements!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>The number of apps surpassed a little milestone with 300 apps this week! I have continued to create some open issues to help with what to contribute with and to keep me focused - again, please feel free to add more issues, if you have some: Filing bugs/improvement requests are worthwhile contributions too! The website is also a bit lighter now, as I <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commit/d13f62798e5293892c179bebb78cca8e6992f95e">removed some unnecessary CSS</a>.</p>
<p>These apps were added in the past week, upping the App count to 301:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/flozz/yoga-image-optimizer">YOGA Image Optimizer</a>, a graphical user interface for YOGA Image that converts and optimizes the size of JPEGs, PNGs and WebP image files;</li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/baschdel/dragonstone">dragonstone</a>, another GTK Gemini and Gopher browser which fits the screen quite well;</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/paolostivanin/OTPClient">OTPClient</a>, a highly secure and easy to use OTP client written in C/GTK that supports both TOTP and HOTP that supports importing from many other OTP apps; and</li>
<li><a href="https://codeberg.org/xaviers/KMixtapez">KMixtapez</a>, a Kirigami app for listening to mixtapes, albums & songs hosted on MyMixtapez.com.</li>
</ul>
<p>I hope to focus on <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/issues/4">backlog</a> in the coming week.</p>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a>.
Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
LinBits 54: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 28/29)2021-07-21T20:38:00+00:002021-07-22T12:34:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-54-weekly-linux-phone-news-week28-29/<p><em>It's Wednesday. Now what happened since last Wednesday?</em></p>
<p>Plasma Mobile news, GUADEC, Video Recording on PinePhone and more!<span id="continue-reading"></span> <em>Commentary in italics.</em> </p>
<h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/commit/501805ee4e013470c1c9eb17e930f9fe914e3671">Chatty 0.3.3</a> was released, featuring a number of new, mostly Matrix-related features. <em>In my testing on the Librem 5 running PureOS Byzantium however, there's no option for setting up a Matrix account, so I am guessing they want to iterate once more on this feature.</em> </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/calebccff/status/1415441138555760642">Caleb has built Linux 5.14-rc1 for the OnePlus 6, which is awesome on its own. But there is more: It works with zero patches on top of Torvald's master branch, making it magnificient!</a>.</li>
<li>Thanks to Adam Pigg, good things are about to land for Sailfish on the PinePhone: <a href="https://twitter.com/adampigg/status/1417818989137436678">64bit support and the current, latest Sailfish release</a>.</li>
<li>Want accelerated video playback without compiling? <a href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.sigxcpu.Livi">µPlayer is now available on Flathub</a>.</li>
<li>If you want more UI around your accelerated video playback, maybe this pre-built <a href="https://github.com/uniformbuffer/com.github.rafostar.Clapper/releases/tag/master_pinephone_3bf636d46bfe2b0d432c762859e4ea00aa3e6412">flatpak of Clapper</a> is something for you. </li>
<li>Video recording on the PinePhone: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/olyqor/how_i_record_video_on_my_pinephone_in_tolerable/">Someone on reddit made it work!</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/106603224851595225">Emails by Purism</a> ;)</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/maemoleste/status/1416425204105064451">Maemo Leste have announced that they are working on some anonymity features powered by Tor</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ongoing-conference">Ongoing conference</h4>
<ul>
<li>GUADEC, the GNOME conference, is taking place until the 25th. I checked <a href="https://events.gnome.org/event/9/timetable/#all">the schedule</a> found two talks particularily interesting:
<ul>
<li>Bilal Elmoussaoui: <a href="https://events.gnome.org/event/9/contributions/194/">Writing applications using GTK 4 & Rust</a> and</li>
<li>Tobias Bernard: <a href="https://events.gnome.org/event/9/contributions/202/">Adaptive Apps: The Future is Now</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="pine64-community-update">PINE64 Community Update</h4>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/07/15/july-update/">July update: community developers portal</a>. <em>Looks like the PinePhone hardware accessories are inching closer and closer!</em>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/pinephone-keyboard-will-ship-with-open-source-firmware-coming-soon/">PinePhone Keyboard will ship with open source firmware (coming soon)</a> <em>Brad's take on the hardware keyboard.</em></li>
<li>PineGuild: <a href="https://pineguild.com/registration-for-the-pine64-devzone-is-now-open/">Registration for the Pine64 DevZone is now open</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="signal-compiling">Signal compiling</h4>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/signal-desktop-app-ported-to-phones-running-mobian-linux/">Signal desktop app ported to phones running Mobian Linux</a>. <em>You can also install Signal desktop easily on Arch thanks to <a href="https://privacyshark.zero-credibility.net/#packages">Privacy Shark</a>, if you want too. Sadly, it's only really usable in landscape mode, and setup without another iOS or Android device running the proper Signal app is not straightforward. I personally thus still prefer <a href="https://axolotl.chat/">Axolotl</a>, but there are more options here, e.g. <a href="https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs">gurk</a> - I recommend checking out the <a href="https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=signal&s%5B%5D=signal">instructive article on the Mobian Wiki</a>, and hope to find the time to write a blog post about this topic soon.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="open-letters">Open Letters</h4>
<ul>
<li><em>Removed.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="software-development-progress">Software development progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Plasma Mobile: <a href="https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/07/20/plasma-mobile-gear-21-07/">Plasma Mobile 21.07 is Out</a>. <em>Great roundup of how things move forward in the Plasma Mobile realm.</em></li>
<li>Claudio Cambria: <a href="https://claudiocambra.com/2021/07/18/bzzt-your-12-oclock-is-next-on-your-schedule-kalendar-week-6-gsoc-2021/">*BZZT* Your 12 o’clock is next on your schedule — Kalendar week 6 (GSoC 2021)</a>. <em>More great progress!</em> </li>
<li>Janet Blackquill: <a href="https://blog.blackquill.cc/this-week-in-tok-new-features-and-ui-improvements-and-janet-got-tired-of">This Week In Tok: New Features And UI Improvements And Janet Got Tired Of Writing A Cool Title For Every Weekly-ish Post</a>. <em>This Telegram client makes huge steps forward: Mobile Settings! Support for Secret chats!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="peaceful-project-transitions">Peaceful project transitions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/how-calls-became-a-part-of-gnome/">How Calls became a part of GNOME</a>. <em>Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote a nice post here, talking about what I really like about Purism's approach: Build software, together with the community and upstream.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="security-based-advertising">Security-based Advertising</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/defending-against-spyware-like-pegasus/">Defending Against Spyware Like Pegasus</a>. <em>Some valid points here.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>PineTalk <a href="https://www.pine64.org/podcast/013-13th-of-july/">013: 13th of July</a>. <em>Ezra and I talked about PINE64's July Community Update, tried our best to answer six community questions, to then (to my surprise both) step down. So if you're reading this and would like to continue a community podcast, step up! It's been a lot of fun to do this, thank you to everybody involved for the opportunity!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcAc0mOpVrw">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 104</a>. <em>Dalton is joined by Florian this week. They talk about OTA18, 20.04 porting progress, some PinePhone progress Dalton made and improvements to TelePorts. There's also an interesting question revolving around WayDroid (former Anbox-halium) on non-Halium 9 phones.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="software-progress">Software progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>kop316: <a href="https://matrix-client.matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/mGfajTVkiWIeEfaeDlQzZTaF">Visual Voicemail</a>. <em>Chris, who did great work on getting MMS to work, is now showing of the client part of <a href="https://gitlab.com/kop316/vvmplayer">his work that enables Visual voicemail</a>.</em> </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="because-they-can">Because they can</h4>
<ul>
<li>UJC TheGuy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjW8BBNpxx4">PinePhone video recording</a>. <em>The Reddit post is linked above.</em></li>
<li>noocsharp: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJaFkxEUWhc">mowc + oasis on the Pinephone</a>. <em>Ambitious project! If you want to follow the past progress, <a href="https://nihaljere.xyz/words.html">check out the corresponding blog posts</a>!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tutorial">Tutorial</h4>
<ul>
<li>kdlk.de: tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-5oSgjBfic">PinePhone Essentials: Change the PinePhone pin/password for login</a>. <em>passwd!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="software-reviews">Software reviews</h4>
<ul>
<li>TechHut: <a href="https://odysee.com/@TechHut:1/manjaro-plasma-mobile-on-the-linux:f">Manjaro Plasma-Mobile on the Linux PinePhone! (Beta5)</a>. <em>Personal comment: Gosh, I need to promote LINMOBapps more (or get it's replacement going and promote that)!</em></li>
<li>two: <a href="https://odysee.com/@two:66/mobianpinephoneFTW:0">Mobian on the Pinephone FTW</a>. <em>Loving the sound track. Everything is so much more exciting with a little Bond!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pine64-community-update-1">PINE64 Community update</h4>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://odysee.com/@PINE64:a/july-update-community-developers-portal:a">July Update: Community Developers Portal</a>. <em>PizzaLovingNerd did a great job once again!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="jingos">JingOS</h4>
<ul>
<li>JingOS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-i4qfKA5kQ">Sending JingPad A1 sample devices to some Youtubers, please wait for 2~4 weeks for their review~</a>. <em>Don't worry: I won't be getting one.</em></li>
<li>JingOS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru-m2P7jy4U">[DEMO] New virtual keyboard for JingOS working with the Terminal app</a>. <em>While there is no point in even pointing out which OS inspired this keyboard design, it looks very smooth and well implemented!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="current-and-somewhat-related">Current, and somewhat related</h4>
<ul>
<li>PizzaLovingNerd: <a href="https://odysee.com/@pizzalovingnerd:5/buy-this-instead-of-a-freedom-phone:c">Buy This Instead of a Freedom Phone</a>. <em>If that laughable, detail-free web site wasn't enough...</em></li>
<li>Gardiner Bryant: <a href="https://odysee.com/@TheLinuxGamer:f/steam-deck-1:d">BIGGEST LINUX GAMING NEWS IN YEARS.</a> <em>Yes, this is about the Steam Deck which is a Nintendo Switch like, AMD-powered Gaming handheld that's going to run an Arch Linux based OS featuring a KDE Plasma based user interface. Even as a non-Gamer I must say that I am intrigued.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<ul>
<li>I wrote a blog post, called <a href="https://linmob.net/phosh-0-12-app-drawer/">Phosh 0.12 and its App Drawer refinement</a>. On late Sunday, I added some feedback I received by Purism's developers – so maybe re-visit it if you were an early reader!</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<ul>
<li>I have been playing with current releases on the Ubuntu Touch kernel upgrade channel (which now is on 5.13), and things have definitely improved a lot.</li>
<li>I have been wondering on making the process of creating this update easier for me and generally better and more collaborative. This <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/haeckerfelix/2021/07/16/introducing-this-week-in-gnome/">concept</a> seems intriguing. What do you guys think?</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>A few more apps have been added, and I have started to create some open issues to help with what to contribute with - please feel free to add more issues, if you have some: Filing bugs/improvement requests are worthwhile contributions too!</p>
<p>These apps were added in the past week:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/obfuscate/">Obfuscate</a>, which lets you redact your private information from any image,</li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/armen138/gerbil">Gerbil</a>, a little gemini browser, written with mobile linux in mind,</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/arteeh/wasp-companion">Wasp Companion</a>, a Linux companion app for Wasp OS (a smartwatch operating system),</li>
<li><a href="https://source.puri.sm/guido.gunther/livi">µPlayer</a>, a minimalistic video player using GTK4 and GStreamer featuring hardware accelerated video playback,</li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/kop316/vvmplayer">Visual Voicemail</a>, a frontend for Visual Voicemail.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a>.
Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
LinBits 53: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 27/28)2021-07-14T21:54:00+00:002021-07-15T15:15:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-53-weekly-linux-phone-news-week27-28/<p><em>It's Wednesday. Now what happened since last Wednesday?</em></p>
<p>New sounds for Plasma Mobile, Phosh, Phoc, Ubuntu Touch, Manjaro and DanctNIX see new releases and more!<span id="continue-reading"></span> <em>Commentary in italics.</em> </p>
<h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://social.librem.one/@dos/106557650811135885">Phoc 0.8.0 has been released</a>, bringing a fix for idle inhibition and more. Read the <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phoc/-/releases/v0.8.0">full release notes for more</a>. </li>
<li><a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/106578916170941330">Phosh 0.12.1 has seen yet another release</a>, containing mostly bug and translation fixes. Read the <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.12.1">full release notes for more</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://botsin.space/@manjarolinux/106555866278226857">Manjaro Phosh Beta 12</a> has been released.</li>
<li>Danct12 has released <a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20210713">Arch Linux ARM 2021/07/03</a>, containing Phoc 0.8.0 and more nice new things.</li>
<li><a href="https://ubports.com/blog/1/post/3764">Ubuntu Touch OTA 18 is also out!</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="software-progress">Software progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>NxOS: <a href="https://nxos.org/maui/maui-monthly-report-13/">Maui Monthly Report 13</a>. <em>Great stuff that's coming along here, a lot to look forward to! Strike and NX Software center sound really exciting.</em></li>
<li>Plasma Mobile: <a href="https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/07/08/winners-of-kde-lmms-sound-contest/">Winners of the KDE and LMMS Plasma Mobile Sound Contest</a>. <em>Sounds nice!</em></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-13/">Purism and Linux 5.13</a>. <em>Mainlining keeps going quite well for the Librem 5!</em></li>
<li>Janet Blackquill: <a href="https://blog.blackquill.cc/approximately-two-pink-weeks-in-tok">Approximately Two Pink Weeks In Tok</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="gsoc-progress">GSoC progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Claudio Cambria: <a href="https://claudiocambra.com/2021/07/11/an-eventful-week-kalendar-week-5-gsoc-2021/">An eventful week — Kalendar week 5 (GSoC 2021)</a>. </li>
<li>Visvesh Subramanian: <a href="https://visveshs.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-new-look-for-health-app.html">A New Look for the Health app</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="metadata-nerdery">Metadata nerdery</h4>
<ul>
<li>Philip Withnall: <a href="https://tecnocode.co.uk/2021/07/12/add-metadata-to-your-app-to-say-what-inputs-and-display-sizes-it-supports/">Add metadata to your app to say what inputs and display sizes it supports</a>. <em>You may find this boring and think: Why this XML stuff? Because it matters. Specifying where an app will fit in metadata is an important step to better app stores for Linux Phones.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="foss-reporting">FOSS reporting</h4>
<ul>
<li>PineGuild: <a href="https://pineguild.com/manjaro-arm-beta12-of-phosh-for-pinephone-2/">Manjaro ARM Beta12 of Phosh for PinePhone</a>.</li>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/kobo-clara-e-book-ereader-linux-kernel-hack/">Some Kobo e-readers can now run Linux, becoming inexpensive e-ink tablets</a>. <em>Great post!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="assistive-pinephone">Assistive PinePhone</h4>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/mycroft-an-open-source-voice-assistant-works-with-linux-smartphones-like-the-pinephone/">Mycroft, an open source voice assistant works with Linux smartphones like the PinePhone</a>. <em>I have had Mycroft on PinePhone on my To Do list for months. Maybe I'll get to it one day.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-18-brings-improved-performance-for-older-devices-among-other-updates/">Ubuntu Touch OTA 18 brings improved performance for older devices, among other updates</a>. <em>Brad's take on the above Ubuntu Touch announcement.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="propaganda">Propaganda</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/proud-to-be-top-contributor-to-gtk4/">Proud to Be Top Contributor to GTK4</a>. <em>Well, 0.3%. On the other hand, that's more than Canonical or Intel contributed so far.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="postmarketos">postmarketOS</h4>
<ul>
<li>Wolf fur Programming: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PrS6Ls4A8">Plasma Mobile Oneplus 6t postmarketos</a>. <em>Nice!</em></li>
</ul>
<h5 id="ereader-extravanganza">eReader extravanganza</h5>
<ul>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/3aac1314-291f-425c-b36a-0f5b6a54e357">postmarketOS on the Kobo Clara HD</a>. <em>The comments are interesting, mentioning a software called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaBj7acHRHk">InkBox</a> for future software.</em></li>
</ul>
<h5 id="tiles">Tiles</h5>
<ul>
<li>Drew Naylor 2: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGZ3E5nqb0s">RetiledStart demo #4: Landscape All Apps List</a>. <em>If you've been missing Windows Phone, this might excite you!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="mutantc">mutantC</h4>
<ul>
<li>mutantC: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh6L0XZP86Y">Revisiting mutantC v2, BTW everything works</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tutorials">Tutorials</h4>
<ul>
<li>kdlk.de: tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hKtGKBD7YE">PinePhone Essentials: Turning off the Hardware Switches - Camera Turn Off</a>.</li>
<li>kdlk.de: tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHpOzgBgf6o">PinePhone App Development - Where to start? #01 Rust + GTK</a>. <em>Really nice!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="grumpy-stuff">Grumpy stuff</h4>
<ul>
<li>Twinntech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLpQ0Hqq5vY">Pinephone daily drive round 2</a>. <em>Admittedly, the title is not entirely fair. He's trying stuff again, and I hope it works. Also, you can see confirmation bias at work.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>Nothing. Well, we recorded another PineTalk, which will be out this weekend. I was going to publish a short post on Phosh's new app drawer feature tonight, but I just couldn't – too tired.</p>
<p>One thing I managed to actually finish, is a <a href="https://framagit.org/1peter10/flatpaks">Flatpak manifest so that you can try accelerated video playback in Clapper without tainting your /usr/local</a>.</p>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>LINMOBapps did not get much love again, but luckily Marco H. contributed one new app:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/vakzination">Vakzination</a>, a Kirigami app which manages your health certificates like vaccination, test, and recovery certificates.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a>.
Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
LinBits 52: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 26/27)2021-07-07T21:35:00+00:002021-07-07T21:35:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-52-weekly-linux-phone-news-week26-27/<p><em>It's Wednesday. Now what happened since last Wednesday?</em></p>
<p>postmarketOS 21.06, accelerated video playback with Clapper and more!<span id="continue-reading"></span> <em>Commentary in italics.</em> </p>
<h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://postmarketos.org/blog/2021/07/04/v21.06-release/">postmarketOS 21.06</a> has been released, basing on Alpine 3.14 and supporting 4 additional (15 total) devices. <em>It's awesome to see this progress.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>A few ARM specific PKGBUILD scripts have been removed from the AUR, as this <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinuxarm/comments/odx7bg/arch_linux_arm_aur_equivalent/">Reddit thread</a> points out. <em>While this makes sense with Arch Linux ARM being a seperate project from Arch Linux, it's still sad and feels slightly unnecessary.</em> </li>
<li>If you want to check out accelerated video playback without messing up your systems <code>/usr/local</code>, you can try building the <a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/106534519111169979">Flatpak of livi/µPlayer</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="long-reads">Long reads</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dalton Durst: <a href="https://daltondur.st/secure_pinephone_1/">The Endless Conundrum of creating a secure PinePhone </a>. <em>Yes, this is technically to old to be included, but it's definitely worth reading. Dalton not only is a very nice guy, he also knows what he's talking about here: There are trade-offs that go along with verified boot, making it not too desirable.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="software-progress">Software progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jozef Mlich: <a href="https://blog.mlich.cz/2021/07/advances-of-nemomobile-in-july-2021/">Advances of Nemomobile in July/2021</a>.</li>
<li>Alejandro Domínguez: <a href="https://aledomu.github.io/gnome/small-progress-update-of-my-2021-gsoc-with-fractal-next/">Small progress update of my 2021’s GSoC with Fractal-next</a>.</li>
<li>Georges Stavracas: <a href="https://feaneron.com/2021/07/02/dark-light-style-selector-in-to-do/">Dark & light style selector in To Do</a>. <em>I hope that they will work on mobile compatibility, too. GNOME To Do 40.1 almost fits the screen, the lists feature does not work right with Squeekboard — it's so close!</em></li>
<li>Claudio Cambra: <a href="https://claudiocambra.com/2021/07/04/editing-and-deleting-mistakes-and-events-too-kalendar-week-4-gsoc-2021/">Editing and deleting mistakes… and events too — Kalendar week 4 (GSoC 2021)</a>.</li>
<li>Brian Daniels: <a href="http://briandaniels.me/2021/07/06/hardware-accelerated-video-playback-on-the-pinephone-with-clapper.html">Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding on the PinePhone with Clapper</a>. <em>Last week we had an initial hack, now there's a nice, existing app adopting this. Awesome!</em>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/hardware-accelerated-video-playback-now-possible-on-the-pinephon/">Hardware accelerated video playback now possible on the PinePhon</a>. <em>Brad's take!</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="personal-progress">Personal Progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Carl Schwan: <a href="https://carlschwan.eu/2021/07/05/kde-documentation-new-job-at-nextcloud/">KDE Documentation & New Job at Nextcloud</a>. <em>I wish him all the best (and selfishly hope he still finds time for his Plasma (Mobile) apps)!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="hardware">Hardware</h4>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/volla-phone-x-rugged-phone-is-available-for-pre-order-with-ubuntu-or-android/">Volla Phone X rugged phone is available for pre-order with Ubuntu Touch or Android</a>. <em>It's basically the same as the previous Volla Phone, but more rugged and with an even larger battery.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>Pinetalk <a href="https://www.pine64.org/podcast/012-privacy-and-security-with-rtp/">012: Privacy and Security with RTP</a>. <em>Have fun listening! Aside from the title, we discuss recent community news and questions that revolve around future PINE64 devices we would like to see.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch-corner">Ubuntu Touch corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNeoHry4uk">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 103</a>. <em>Dalton and Alfred again, this time discussing 20.04 (Focal Fossa) progress, initial Open-Store support, clickable progress. Alfred build something called <a href="https://github.com/ubports/ubports-pdk">UBports PDK</a> to have a better time building software for Ubuntu Touch, which runs amazingly fast on an Apple M1 system. Questions revolve around Rust, AGPS, Morph Browser and security.</em></li>
<li>Digital Wandering: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUfPAixcdvI">Ubuntu Touch - Choosing a Device (part 2) - featuring the Nexus 5, Pixel 2, and Pixel 3a</a>.</li>
<li>AdhesionTek: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymgpLhe3yPs">Ubuntu Touch Hands-On: Your phone is your PC, or is it?</a>. <em>Ugh. I was debating whether I should include this, as it's one more video not understanding while not having 'apt' outside of the Libertine container is a good idea, and it's one more video that thinks dumping on community projects and comparing them to trillion-dollar-company-products would be at all a fair thing to do.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="jing-corner">Jing Corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>JingOS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnegDC7y_KY">JingPad Project Monthly Report | June 2021, JingPad Keyboard EVT, JingOS ARM Alpha, Android ROM...</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-palace">PinePhone Palace</h4>
<ul>
<li>RTP: <a href="https://odysee.com/@RTP:9/pinephone-improve-photos-with-gimp:1">Pinephone: Improve Photos With This GIMP</a>. <em>Yes, GIMP on the PinePhone!</em></li>
<li>RTP: <a href="https://odysee.com/@RTP:9/usb-key-+-password-luks-required-scripts:8">USB Key + Password LUKS Required Scripts (For Linux Phones and Devices)</a>.</li>
<li>Сергей Чуплыгин: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoS55Bo0fCU">Nemomobile keyboard trackpoint</a>. <em>Neat!</em></li>
<li>PizzaLovingNerd: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCO1CYvffQw">I installed Minecraft on a PinePhone</a>. <em>Spoiler: It's complicated, but not impossible.</em></li>
<li>Brian Daniels: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvmRV6IIGGo">Hardware Video Decoding on the PinePhone with Clapper</a>. <em>Same video as last week, but now with Clapper instead of gst-playbin-1.0. Awesome!</em></li>
<li>Raspberry Pi Projects and More: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahfJJ-cu5vw">A Raspberry Pi in the Form of a Phone! (Kind of) - PinePhone Setup Guide!</a> <em>Nice guide!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<p>I wrote a blog post on <a href="https://linmob.net/gnu-linux-on-tablets-hardware/">GNU/Linux on Tablets: Hardware</a>.</p>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did-1">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>Nothing. Well, PineTalk ;-)</p>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>LINMOBapps did not get any love this week. No new apps were added.</p>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a>.
Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
LinBits 51: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 25/26)2021-06-30T21:10:00+00:002021-07-01T11:11:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-51-weekly-linux-phone-news-week25-26/<p><em>It's Wednesday. Now what happened since last Wednesday?</em></p>
<p>Phosh 0.12.0, accelerated video playback on PinePhone, Nemo Mobile keyboard progress and more!<span id="continue-reading"></span> <em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.gnuhealth.org/docs/mygnuhealth/">My GNU Health</a> has seen its <a href="https://invent.kde.org/pim/mygnuhealth/-/tags/v1.0.0">1.0</a> release.</li>
<li><a href="https://gtk-rs.org/blog/2021/06/22/new-release.html">gtk-rs has seen a new release</a>, and now has a logo and a website. It's not just any release, as gtk-rs now provides Rust with GTK4 bindings. </li>
<li><a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/106499109315473158">Phosh 0.12.0 has been released</a>. Now, the proximity sensor will only be enabled during calls <em>(gamers will appreciate this)</em>, only adaptive apps will be shown in mobile mode, and more - make sure to read the <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.12.0">full release notes</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20210628">DanctNIX Arch Linux ARM</a> has seen another release, bringing all the latest software!</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/postmarketOS/status/1409880687608582148">postmarketOS reworked their Downloads pages</a>. <em>Lovely!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="video-deconding-extravaganza">Video deconding extravaganza</h4>
<ul>
<li>Brian Daniels: <a href="http://briandaniels.me/2021/06/27/hardware-accelerated-video-playback-on-the-pinephone.html">Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding on the PinePhone</a>. <em>This is really impressive! I've actually followed Brian's post to see how well this works, and his measurements check out. I really hope that gstreamer 1.20 is going to land soon and that distributions and app developers manage to make the accelerated video available to us all as soon as possible.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="software-progress-reports">Software progress reports</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jonah Brüchert: <a href="https://jbbgameich.github.io/kde/2021/06/24/audiotube-binaries.html">AudioTube nightly builds available</a>. <em>AudioTube enthusiasts rejoice!</em></li>
<li>Janet Blackquill: <a href="https://blog.blackquill.cc/an-unspecified-amount-of-time-in-tok">An Unspecified Amount Of Time In Tok</a>. <em>Further progress for our favourite Kirigami Telegram client!</em></li>
<li>Luis Falcon: <a href="https://meanmicio.org/2021/06/24/welcome-to-mygnuhealth-the-libre-personal-health-record/">Welcome to MyGNUHealth, the Libre Personal Health Record</a>. <em>This project is just amazing!</em></li>
<li>KDE neon Developers' Blog: <a href="https://blog.neon.kde.org/2021/06/24/neon-maliit-keyboard-now-available-on-wayland/">Neon: Maliit Keyboard Now Available on Wayland</a>. <em>This might be interesting for tablet users.</em></li>
<li>Claudio Cambra: <a href="https://claudiocambra.com/2021/06/27/figuring-out-recurrence-in-kalendars-week-3-gsoc-2021/">Figuring out recurrence (and bugs…) in Kalendar’s week 3 (GSoC 2021)</a>. <em>I still have not managed to build and run Kalendar on my PinePhone. I really should.</em></li>
<li>Kai A. Hiller: <a href="https://blog.kaialexhiller.de/?p=29">Search Bar of Doom</a>. <em>This is about Fractal Next.</em></li>
<li>Sophie's Blog: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2021/06/25/finally-a-new-gtk-rs-release-and-more/">New gtk-rs release and more</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="theming">Theming</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/librem-themes/">Librem Themes</a>. <em>Sadly, the Phosh Look app needs to be adjusted as it assumes a certain username.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-hardware-keyboard-news">PinePhone hardware keyboard news</h4>
<ul>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#042">Pinephone keyboard's final summary</a>. <em>It's final!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="competition">Competition ;-)</h4>
<p>LinuxSmartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/news-roundup-hardware-accelerated-video-on-the-pinephone-themes-on-the-librem-5/"> News Roundup: Hardware-accelerated video on the PinePhone, themes on the Librem 5</a>. <em>Brad's take on recent events. :-)</em></p>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="phone-reviews">Phone reviews</h4>
<ul>
<li>Chris Titus Tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neG2Z21epLI">Volla Phone | Using Linux Phone instead of Android or Apple</a>. <em>If you were looking for an English language video about the Volla Phone, here you go! (BTW, <a href="https://github.com/JamiKettunen/unity8-notch-hax">here's a notch fix</a>.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="video-playback-demoed-on-video">Video playback demoed on video</h4>
<ul>
<li>Brian Daniels: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKQNHalxFF0">Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding on the PinePhone</a>. <em>This is the amazing accelerated video playback from the post above!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tutorial-corner">Tutorial corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>kdlk.de:tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2WuyHiBItY">PinePhone Essentials: #Phosh How to Set UI Scale Settings for not optimized apps</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="sailfish-apps">Sailfish apps</h4>
<ul>
<li>ARustig View: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAu2PWWz5zQ">GPS Apps on Sailfish OS 4.1.0.24</a>. <em>This is really short, but if you ever wondered what Pure Maps looks like on current Sailfish OS, now you know!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="nemo-mobile-awesomeness">Nemo Mobile awesomeness</h4>
<ul>
<li>Сергей Чуплыгин: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LdHWEVFmrY">some progress with nemomobile keyboard</a>. <em>Yes, this does not look super finished, but let's just appreciate the progress that is happening around Nemo Mobile!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="diy-handheld-corner">DIY handheld corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>mutantC: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKknVVHY1rc">mutantC v4 compared to others</a>.</li>
<li>mutantC: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wmJ-LXRhLo">mutantC v4 working prototype</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<p>I wrote a blog post on <a href="https://linmob.net/gnu-linux-on-tablets-hardware/">GNU/Linux on Tablets: Hardware</a>. If you want a Linux tablet, make sure to read it and feel free to get in touch if you have questions or feedback.</p>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did-1">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>I wrote a blog post on <a href="https://linmob.net/gnu-linux-on-tablets-hardware/">GNU/Linux on Tablets: Hardware</a>. I hope to continue this series soon, but can't give any ETA, as I will have to test and thus use more software for this; or at least sit down and write something meaningful about the Lenovo Chromebook Duet.</p>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<p>I reworked a few aspects of this site so that it now passes the <a href="https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Flinmob.net%2F">validator</a>. Further work fixed some issues with my Atom feed I noticed in my <a href="https://miniflux.app">Miniflux</a> instance. Also I made those "Hindsight" notes I wrote while going through my old blog posts visible. You gotta catch them all! ;-)</p>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>LINMOBapps did not get much love this week, again. I only managed to add two apps: </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jakeday/LinMoTube">LinMoTube</a>, YouTube Client for Linux Mobile (Python and WxWidgets, if you like try it, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/oacmot/youtube_videomusic_app_for_pinephone_looking_for/">make sure to leave feedback</a>),</li>
<li><a href="https://source.puri.sm/david.hamner/phosh_look">Phosh Look</a>, Phosh look manages ~/.config/gtk-3.0 with preset themes.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a>.
Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
LinBits 50: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 24/25)2021-06-23T20:55:00+00:002021-06-23T20:55:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-50-weekly-linux-phone-news-week24-25/<p><em>It's Wednesday. Now what happened since last Wednesday?</em></p>
<p>A new NemoMobile image, 300 booting devices and a backup tool for postmarketOS and more!<span id="continue-reading"></span> <em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>postmarketOS has <a href="https://twitter.com/pmOS_devices/status/1407277205051301888">reached 300 booting devices</a>.</li>
<li>The Mobian Wiki has a great page on <a href="https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=japanese-ime">Japanese IME</a> now.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="software-development">Software development</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jozef Mlich: <a href="https://blog.mlich.cz/2021/06/own-nemomobile-image/">Own Nemomobile image</a>. <em>I really find Jozef's progress reports quite inspiring.</em></li>
<li>Claudio Cambria: <a href="https://claudiocambra.com/2021/06/20/week-2-on-kalendar-gsoc-2021/">Week 2 on Kalendar (GSoC 2021)</a>. <em>Nice progress! I'll need try that "Add event" dialogue on a phone, though.</em></li>
<li>Visvesh's blog: <a href="https://visveshs.blogspot.com/2021/06/an-update-on-my-gsoc-project.html">An Update on my GSoC project</a>. <em>Visvesh is working on <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/Cogitri/Health">Health</a>.</em></li>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/purism-shows-off-new-features-coming-to-pureos-for-the-librem-5-smartphone-camera-software-wireless-toggles-screen-rotation-and-more/">Purism shows off new features coming to PureOS for the Librem 5 smartphone (camera software, wireless toggles, screen rotation and more)</a>. <em>This is Brad's take on the Purism blog post we had in the last installment.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linux-phone-deatchmatch">Linux Phone Deatchmatch ;-)</h4>
<ul>
<li>ThatGeoGuy: <a href="https://thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2021/06/22/Librem-5-Evergreen-vs-Pinephone/">Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone (Part 2 of ???)</a>. <em>An interesting second part, check out the <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27605712">HN comment thread, too</a>.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-keyboard-corner">PinePhone keyboard corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>xnux.eu/log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#041">Pinephone keyboard's firmware I2C interface</a>. <em>Great post by Megi!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>PineTalk <a href="https://www.pine64.org/podcast/011-lounging-with-linux-lounge/">011: Lounging with Linux Lounge</a>. <em>Ezra interviews Linux Lounge, a Linux-centric content creator, and we discuss the PINE64 June Community Update. Also we answer a question regarding "suitable beginner software projects", which might be interesting.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch-avenue">Ubuntu Touch avenue</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQ2iuZ9oPw">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 102</a>. <em>It's Dalton and Alfred again, talking about Ubuntu Touch progress. Also, Dalton tells a story about the nightmares he endured on Android that led him to end up on and stick with Ubuntu Touch.</em></li>
<li>Low Orbit Flux: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DeOgkLbdYo">PinePhone – Linux Smart Phone Ubuntu Touch Install Test FINAL</a>, <em>Long, but with music.</em></li>
<li>anino207: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Lfj51h_0M">Ubuntu Touch Tablet Experience - Lomiri</a>. <em>Awesome explainer of Ubuntu Touch on tablets!</em></li>
<li>CyberPunked: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7KadUIj50">Ubuntu Touch - OnePlus 5 / Cheeseburger (2021-06-18)</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="app-corner">App corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4neYnrLgTy8">postmarketOS Backups 0.2.0</a>. <em>This app works with apk, the Alpine package manager, so it's really focussed on postmarketOS, but it's still awesome to see some new developments in this area.</em></li>
<li>Geotechland: <a href="https://odysee.com/@geotechland:6/foliate-linux-ebook-viewer-review:a">Foliate Linux Ebook Viewer Review</a>. <em>Included because it also works on the PinePhone.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tutorials">Tutorials</h4>
<ul>
<li>kdlk.de: tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgg8yA_avqo">PinePhone Essentials: Install a PinePhone OS on a SD-Card</a>. <em>The umpteenth video on using Balena Etcher! Just in case anyone cares: You could also use <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Disks">GNOME Disks</a> or <a href="https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/usbimager/">USBimager</a> for this.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="development-streams">Development streams</h4>
<ul>
<li>Caleb Connolly: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4pwC9NsQg">postmarketOS and Linux Mainline on the OnePlus 6: Debugging kernel driver probing for 5.13</a>,</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="foreign-languages">Foreign Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Alexander Stetyukha: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIG9MXKZj-0">Pinephone смартфон для любителей GNU/Linux (обзор)</a>. <em>This video is a demo of Megi's latest p-boot-demo image and also of GloDroid and the automatically translated subtitles are fun to read.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="grumpy-stuff">Grumpy stuff</h4>
<ul>
<li>Twinntech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-GTjMKVZaE">Pinephone the dreaded MMS stuck -no text incoming how to work around the issue.</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>None, sorry. Busy times :( I have started writing something though, so there's hope for some content later this week.</p>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>LINMOBapps did not get much love this week, either. I have added a few apps: </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnote">Gnote</a>, a Tomboy inspired notes app, that scales well (reviewed release 40.1), only the settings menu does not fit the screen properly. But: Opening notes is tedious and requires the use of the enter key on the software keyboard,</li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos-backup">postmarketOS Backup</a>, a backup application that integrates with apk to quickly backup and restore your system state in postmarketOS and</li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/lgtrombetta/pinephone-compass">Pinephone Compass</a>, a proof of concept of a simple compass app for the Pine64 Pinephone.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a>.
Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
LinBits 49: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 23/24)2021-06-16T21:10:00+00:002021-06-16T21:10:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-49-weekly-linux-phone-news-week23-24/<p><em>It's Wednesday. Now what happened since last Wednesday?</em></p>
<p>Plasma Mobile, PureOS and postmarketOS progess, DanctNIX with Plasma Mobile, PinePhone keyboard firmware and more!<span id="continue-reading"></span> <em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/calls/-/releases#v0.3.4">Calls 0.3.4 has been released</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phoc/-/releases/v0.7.1">Phoc 0.7.1 has been released</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20210613">DanctNIX Mobile</a> has seen a new release, for the first time featuring Plasma Mobile images. <em>Great work, Danct12!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/maemoleste/status/1402959691853058049">Maemo Leste Translation progress</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/maemoleste/status/1404825056493158403">Maemo Leste in an Android chroot</a>. <em>The video linked is too old and I sadly missed it. BTW, if you should watch it: Mute it, the music might mess you up!</em></li>
<li>u/ppafin: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/embeddedlinux/comments/ny2unw/our_weekend_project_buildroot_environment_for/">Our Weekend project: buildroot environment for pinephone</a>. <em>Definitely something I need to take a look at!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Vice Motherboard: <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e77y/the-dollar149-smartphone-that-could-bring-the-linux-mobile-ecosystem-to-life">The $149 Smartphone That Could Bring The Linux Mobile Ecosystem to Life</a>. <em>This essentially a re-post of the excellent <a href="https://tedium.co/2021/05/26/pinephone-mobile-linux-review/">Tedium post</a> we had in <a href="https://linmob.net/linbits-47-weekly-linux-phone-news-week21-22/">LinBits 47</a>, but it definitely hit a wider audience here, which is great, especially for such a nice article. The only issue I have is that my Sxmo video is definitely not the best video on the topic — <a href="https://diode.zone/videos/watch/b52e7c40-87cb-4479-a4cc-c11b1bfa8806">this video is</a> ;-)</em></li>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#039">Hints on debugging HDMI output on Pinephone</a>. <em>If you have problems with HDMI out on your PinePhone, this might help.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="software-progress">Software Progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>NxOS: <a href="https://nxos.org/maui/maui-weekly-report-12/">Maui Weekly Report 12</a>. <em>I like this!</em></li>
<li>Plasma Mobile: <a href="https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/06/10/plasma-mobile-update-june/">Plasma Mobile: More Applications and an Improved Homescreen</a>. <em>Nice update! The only thing I miss progress on is the work on an email client for Plasma Mobile, but then many people likely use (hopefully friendly) webmail, that can be dealt with with Angelfish's web app feature.</em>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/plasma-mobile-gains-shell-and-home-screen-improvements-app-updates-and-new-apps/">Plasma Mobile gains shell and home screen improvements, app updates and new apps</a>. <em>Brad's take on this update.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/making-a-platform-adaptive-for-everyone/">Making a Platform Adaptive for Everyone</a>. <em>This is truly a great effort. Make sure to watch those videos on what's coming for libadwaita.</em></li>
<li>Janet Blackquill: <a href="https://blog.blackquill.cc/yet-another-week-in-tok">Yet Another Week In Tok</a>. <em>Tok is really coming along nicely!</em></li>
<li>Claudio Cambra: <a href="https://claudiocambra.com/2021/06/14/first-week-of-google-summer-of-code-2021/">First week of Google Summer of Code 2021</a>. <em><a href="https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/kalendar">Kalendar</a> now definitely is a project to watch.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="hardware-news">Hardware news</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-news-summary-may-2021/">Librem 5 News Summary: May 2021</a>. <em>One note regarding the Products and Availability Chart: Given that there are people with orders from late 2017 waiting for the non-USA Librem 5, I would not exactly bet on this.</em></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/toward-a-respectful-hardware-production/">Toward a Respectful Hardware Production</a>. </li>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/linux-tablet-jingling-jingpad-a1-startup-10m-funding-crowdfunding-pricing-indiegogo/">Linux tablet maker JingLing secures $10M funding, starts JingPad crowdfunding campaign</a>. <em>Except for the displays aspect ratio which I like a lot, I really don't think this is for me.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="slightly-unrelated-but-worth-reading">Slightly unrelated, but worth reading</h4>
<ul>
<li>pointiestick.com: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2021/06/15/bug-triaging-is-the-foundation-of-quality-and-we-need-more-of-it/">Bug triaging is the foundation of quality and we need more of it</a></li>
<li>scarpino.dev: <a href="https://scarpino.dev/posts/im-back-in-the-boat.html">I'm back in the boat</a>. <em>A blog post about Sailfish OS with a few app recommendations that may be helpful.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distro-news">Distro news</h4>
<ul>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/postmarketos-2021-linux-300-phones-glacier-powervr/">postmarketOS in 2021: over 300 devices, growing technical basis and extensive "mainline" support</a>. <em>Great post about the massive progress postmarketOS has been making lately.</em></li>
<li>PineGuild: <a href="https://pineguild.com/arch-linux-arm-20210613-kernel-5-12-7-phosh-0-11-and-plasma-mobile-images/">Arch Linux ARM 20210613 – Kernel 5.12.7, Phosh 0.11 and Plasma Mobile images</a>.</li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-10-byzantium-snapshot-june-2021/">Pureos 10 (Byzantium) Snapshot: June 2021</a>. <em>The progress is noteworthy. I really look forward to a properly working version of Megapixels being packaged!</em>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/purism-shows-off-new-features-coming-to-pureos-for-the-librem-5-smartphone-camera-software-wireless-toggles-screen-rotation-and-more/">Purism shows off new features coming to PureOS for the Librem 5 smartphone (camera software, wireless toggles, screen rotation and more)</a>. <em>Brad's take.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="akademy-kde-conference-previews">Akademy (KDE Conference) previews</h4>
<ul>
<li>Volker Krause: <a href="https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2021/06/12/kde-akademy-2021.html">KDE Akademy 2021</a></li>
<li>Kevin Ottens: <a href="https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2021/06/15/akademy-2021-at-home/">Akademy 2021 at Home</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linbits-competition">LinBits competition</h4>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/news-roundup-hacking-the-pinephone-keyboard-accessory-phoc-updates-and-a-new-convergent-web-browser/">News roundup: Hacking the PinePhone keyboard accessory, Phoc updates, and a new convergent web browser</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pine64-community-update">PINE64 Community Update</h4>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/06/15/june-update-new-hardware-and-more-on-the-way/">June update: new hardware and more on the way</a>. <em>Another nice update by PINE64. SoQuartz really interests me.</em>
<ul>
<li>Linux Smartphones: <a href="https://linuxsmartphones.com/the-pinephone-keyboard-case-will-support-hardware-add-ons-for-wireless-charging-lora-and-more/">The PinePhone keyboard case will support hardware add-ons for wireless charging, LoRa,GNOME on Mobile and more</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-keyboard-development">PinePhone Keyboard development</h4>
<ul>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#036">PinePhone keyboard - HW testing</a></li>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#037">Pinephone keyboard firmware</a>. <em>Make sure to also check the video section below.</em></li>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#040">Pinephone keyboard input daemon released</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>postmarketOS Podcast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/06.1-AlpineConf-MMS-Lomiri-PureMaps-pmOStweaks/">#6.1 Alpineconf, MMS, Lomiri, PureMaps, postmarketOS-tweaks</a>.</li>
<li>postmarketOS Podcast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/06.2-AsteroidOS-PinePhone-Battery-RAM-RetroArch-Firefox/">#6.2 AsteroidOS, PinePhone Battery/RAM Freq, RetroArch, Firefox</a>. <em>Two great episodes at once!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="pine64-community-update-1">PINE64 Community Update</h4>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzCIhq17b78">June update: new hardware and more on the way</a>. <em>Great video by PizzaLovingNerd!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="software-news">Software news</h4>
<ul>
<li>Camilo Higuita: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS8qZwKoMFk">Maui Weekly Report</a>. <em>Impressive progress. I really need to use these apps more – not just on the phone.</em></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPrGF5ML-qI">Pureos 10 (Byzantium) Snapshot: June 2021</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="video-review">Video Review</h4>
<ul>
<li>LearnLinuxTV: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqWLbjov-bQ">Pinephone Review (and why we NEED this phone!)</a>. <em>Good, thoughtful review.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="impressions-of-postmarketos">Impressions of postmarketOS</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tamás Vándorffy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92IRhkiyTCE">postmarketOS is booting on my N900</a>.</li>
<li>VegaData: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSfkrDtDaV4">Conhecendo o postmarketOS com o Phosh</a>. <em>Nice video about postmarketOS with Phosh running on the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 - in Portuguese.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tutorial-corner">Tutorial corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>(RTP) Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq3nL2ZWqUg">Linux Class: Create Backup Image Files + Copy w/the dd Command- Here's How (Pinephone Backing up Ex)</a>. <em>Great tutorial!</em></li>
<li>kdlk.de: tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyIiu0LKtfU">PinePhone Essentials: How to open a pinephone</a>. <em>If you didn't know, now you know!</em></li>
<li>kdlk.de: tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrm0LFHdi8">PinePhone Essentials: Samsung Battery in your PinePhone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="convergence-fun">Convergence fun</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nat Tuck: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqCWy2gDukk">Librem 5 Convergence</a>. <em>Fun video!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-keyboard-development-1">PinePhone keyboard development</h4>
<ul>
<li>sadfwesv: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj8DIqD74IM">Pinephone keybaord - Free Firmware Project</a>.</li>
<li>sadfwesv: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx6B_OL4OJ4">PinePhone keyboard demo</a>. <em>Lukasz says that they are likely to ship the keyboard case with Megi's firmware.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="jingos-corner">JingOS corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>JingOS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhJ10dsslQU">JingPad A1 Tablet Mode running GIMP, LibreOffice, Chromium, Firefox...</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>None, sorry. Busy times :(</p>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<ul>
<li>I've been having no luck with relisting this blog on Bing (a search engine only relevant because of DuckDuckGo), and both their tools and communication are rather opaque. Apparently, this blog is accidentally doing something listed in "Things to avoid", if only I knew what it is.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>LINMOBapps got much love this week, either. I have added a few apps: </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/TomBebb/Baconer">Baconer</a>, a Kirigami/Qt Reddit Client,</li>
<li><a href="https://invent.kde.org/maui/sol">Sol</a>, a convergent web browser,</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/weclaw1/image-roll">Image Roll</a>, a simple and fast GTK image viewer with basic image manipulation tools, written in Rust,</li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/rpdev/opentodolist">OpenTodoList</a>, a Todo List and Note Taking Application, and</li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/seahorse">Seahorse</a>, a password and encryption key manager for GNOME.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a>.
Please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>