LINux on MOBile - PinePhone KeyboardLINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.Zola2023-02-19T22:10:00+00:00https://linmob.net/tags/pinephone-keyboard/feed.xmlWeekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (7/2023): New Hardware and new PinePhone Keyboard Firmware2023-02-19T22:10:00+00:002023-02-19T22:10:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-7-2023/<p><em>Also:</em> A fix for PinePhone Mesa troubles, a new Manjaro Phosh beta, a new postmarketOS splashscreen, a guide to developing mobile apps with a nested Phosh session, a new Tokodon release and an association Peter might join._</p>
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<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="hardware">Hardware</h3>
<ul>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/auspicious-machine-is-a-modular-handheld-linux-pc-with-a-blackberry-style-keyboard-and-gaming-buttons/">Auspicious Machine is a modular handheld Linux PC with a BlackBerry-style keyboard and gaming buttons</a></li>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/volla-phone-x23-is-a-rugged-phone-that-runs-google-free-android-or-ubuntu-touch/">Volla Phone X23 is a rugged phone that runs Google-free Android or Ubuntu Touch - Liliputing</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="software-progress">Software progress</h3>
<h4 id="pinephone-keyboard-firmware">PinePhone Keyboard Firmware</h4>
<ul>
<li>megi's PinePhone Development Log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#078">Pinephone keyboard firmware update (1.3)</a>. <em>Massive improvements! Due to this, I am <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/109891673052579480">playing</a> with the keyboard again. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/109890646904069393">How do you make it work for you, which tweaks did you apply?</a></em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">GNOME ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/02/twig-83/">#83 Sharing Is Caring</a></li>
<li>Base-Art: <a href="https://base-art.net/Articles/webrtc-in-webkitgtk-and-wpe-status-updates-part-i/">WebRTC in WebKitGTK and WPE, status updates, part I</a></li>
<li><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/@alexm/109878726853369050">Alexander Mikhaylenko: "libadwaita updates So a few things happened since the last thread …" - Neurodifferent Me</a>. <em>Massive thread about new stuff coming to libadwaita!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-ecosystem">Plasma ecosystem </h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/02/17/this-week-in-kde-a-smooth-release-of-plasma-5-27/">This week in KDE: a smooth release of Plasma 5.27</a></li>
<li>KDE Announcements: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.0/">Plasma 5.27</a></li>
<li>Carl Schwan: <a href="https://carlschwan.eu/2023/02/17/tokodon-23.02.0-release/">Tokodon 23.02.0 release</a></li>
<li>KDE Eco: <a href="https://eco.kde.org/blog/2023-02-14_handbook-announcement/">KDE Eco Handbook: "Applying The Blue Angel Criteria To Free Software"</a></li>
<li>dot.KDE.org: <a href="https://dot.kde.org/2023/02/13/akademy-2023-call-proposals-now-open">Akademy 2023 Call for Proposals is Now Open!</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-5.27-Release-Week">KDE Plasma 6.0 Sees More Feature Work, Improvements For Dolphin & Plasma 5.27.1 Fixes</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports News: <a href="http://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-122-3877">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 122</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="sailfish-os">Sailfish OS</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nick Cartron: <a href="https://www.ncartron.org/jolla-and-sailfish-os-at-fosdem-23.html">Jolla and Sailfish OS at FOSDEM 23</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: <a href="https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/phosh/releases/tag/beta29">Beta 29</a></li>
<li>Strits: <a href="https://blog.strits.dk/plasma-mobile-5-27-plamo-gear-23-01-0/">Plasma Mobile 5.27 + PlaMo Gear 23.01.0</a></li>
<li>Manjaro Blog: <a href="https://blog.manjaro.org/fosdem-2023/">FOSDEM 2023</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12-Soft-Freeze">Debian 12 "Bookworm" Enters Its Soft Freeze</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-5-Year-Plan-2023">Fedora Planning Ahead For The Next 5 Years</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linux">Linux</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-Arm-SoC-Updates">Linux 6.3 Supports The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 & Other New High-End Arm SoCs</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="non-linux">Non-Linux</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lup Yuen: <a href="https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/usb2">NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Exploring USB</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/02/17/this-week-in-matrix-2023-02-17">This Week in Matrix 2023-02-17</a></li>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/02/16/synapse-1-77-released">Synapse 1.77 released</a></li>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/02/14/matrix-v-1-6-release">Matrix v1.6 release</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<h4 id="events-and-associations">Events and associations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Upcoming events: <a href="https://floss.social/@gnome/109833722419928471">Linux App Summit, April 21st - 23rd, Brno, Czech Republic.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sailfishosnews/109875439133793910">Sailfish OS News Network on Mastodon</a>: "Members of the #SailfishOS community created the "Sailmate association". Sailmate is a non-profit association aiming to support and promote free and open source mobile operating system alternatives. Among others, the association aims to provide help (financially and technically) to projects related to #SailfishOS.
<ul>
<li>Website: <a href="https://sailmates.net/">https://sailmates.net/</a></li>
<li>Read more about it: <a href="https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/join-the-sailmates-association/14627">https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/join-th</a>"</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="software">Software</h4>
<ul>
<li>An important fix for PinePhone/AllWinner A64 users has landed in mesa: <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/enunes/mesa/-/commit/e6f8d7ede5f80e906074f09a78dbcedafb3ef0e1?action=show&controller=projects%2Fcommit&id=e6f8d7ede5f80e906074f09a78dbcedafb3ef0e1&namespace_id=enunes&project_id=mesa&w=1">lima: don't use resource_from_handle while creating scanout (e6f8d7ed) · Commits · Erico Nunes / mesa · GitLab</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS/109887055754137919">postmarketOS: "A year in the making, today we merged our new boot #splashscreen! A fancy animation, some text allowing you to show off to your friends the #mainline kernel you run, it's all included!…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pineguild/109885383760258437">Pine Guild: "Morph Browser (from @ubports Ubuntu Touch) in @mobian with #phosh? Yep. ...and it works quite snappy (even on @PINE64 PinePhone).…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dosgame.club/@thp/109870952164453340">Thomas Perl: "Introducing the Maemulator, because I'm sure you missed playing that 2009 tech demo on your modern Linux-based machine…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://social.librem.one/@dos/109864781767105179">Sebastian Krzyszkowiak: "Audio over DisplayPort over USB-C, coming soon to a #Librem5 near you.…" - Librem Social</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/109864981569473099">@linmob: "I took a few photos with Pinhole running on #Mobian on my #PinePhonePro today - great work everybody! …"</a> <em>I deployed the latest Mobian installer image today, and it includes this as a default camera app!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="hardware-hands-on">Hardware hands-on</h4>
<ul>
<li>IEEE Spectrum: <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/mnt-pocket-reform">Hardcore Hands-On: This Pocket PC Is Big on Open Source - IEEE Spectrum</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="nested-phosh-for-fun-and-development">Nested Phosh for fun and development</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phosh: <a href="https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-dev-part-0/">Developing for Mobile Linux with Phosh - Part 0: Running nested</a>. <em>Really helpful! BTW: Make sure to check out that lovely new phosh.mobi site!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-experience">PinePhone experience</h4>
<ul>
<li>Valhalla's Things: <a href="https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/02/15-my-experience-with-a-pinephone/index.html">My experience with a PinePhone</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="flatpak">Flatpak</h4>
<ul>
<li>Linux Phone Guides: <a href="https://linuxphoneguides.ovh/index.php/2023/02/18/the-flatpak-controversy-part-1-storage/">The Flatpak Controversy: Part 1 (Storage)</a></li>
<li>Linux Phone Guides: <a href="https://linuxphoneguides.ovh/index.php/2023/02/18/the-flatpak-controversy-part-2-speed/">The Flatpak Controversy: Part 2 (Speed)</a>. <em>Nice posts, I shared <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/109885237074983873">my thoughts on the fediverse</a>.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="librem-5">Librem 5</h4>
<ul>
<li>Chris Vogel: <a href="https://chrichri.ween.de/articles/00c9759/measuring-power-consumption-on-the-librem5">Measuring power consumption on the Librem5</a>. <em>Helpful!</em></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-the-lapdock-kit/">Announcing the Lapdock Kit</a>. <em>This is a good move, and Purism's addition make sense - these laptops seem to be designed for desk use only OOTB. That said, in most cases, a used laptop will be way more useful, and the only downside will be that it's yet another computer to manage.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="be-nice-people">Be nice, people!</h4>
<ul>
<li>Akselmo: <a href="https://www.akselmo.dev/2023/02/17/You-dont-need-to-yell.html">FOSS communities: You don’t need to yell</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Human Rights Tech (RTP): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB_Co3DgYzE">I2P Browser For Pinephone / Linux Devices (ready to try)</a></li>
<li>emde: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXR6hkyDF2g">Out-Of-Band with Pinephone</a></li>
<li>emde: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jBv2UXt464">Out-Of-Band Commuication with Pinephone</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>
<p>Huge thanks again to Plata for <a href="https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io/-/merge_requests/5">the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speeds up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
<h3 id="something-missing-want-to-contribute">Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
<p>If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into <a href="https://pad.hacc.space/7yCLy5a9QyOLWusIFiTt9A?edit">the hedgedoc pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) <strong>If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (39/2022): Plasma Mobile Gear 22.09, Akademy and an Update on Nemo Mobile2022-10-03T20:00:00+00:002022-10-04T11:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-39-2022/<p>This iteration of the Weekly Update contains less headlines than usually. </p>
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<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="hardware">Hardware</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fydetabduo.com/">Fydetab Duo - First consumer-grade Chromium OS tablet</a>. <em>Chrome OS, without Google.</em>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5lihbVbNQA">We have made something for you: Introducing Fydetab Duo - YouTube</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="software-progress">Software progress</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">GNOME ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/09/twig-63/">#63 Experiments and Prototypes</a>. <em>Good news about News Flash, Komikku and Fractal, and look into Workbench if you develop apps!</em></li>
<li>Julian Sparber: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/jsparber/2022/09/27/fractal-security-audit/">Fractal security audit</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Desktop-Iced-Toolkit">System76's Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop To Make Use Of Iced Rust Toolkit Rather Than GTK</a></li>
</ul>
<h5 id="gnome-os">GNOME OS</h5>
<ul>
<li>Gnome OS test images now being built for
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/merge_requests/1750">Pinephone Pro</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/merge_requests/1727">Pinephone</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/issues/338">Original issue</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-maui-ecosystem">Plasma/Maui ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Plasma Mobile: <a href="https://plasma-mobile.org/2022/09/27/plasma-mobile-gear-22-09/">Plasma Mobile Gear ⚙ 22.09 is Out</a>. <em>5.26 is going to be great on mobile, and that mail app looks promising!</em></li>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2022/10/01/no-blog-post-this-week/">No blog post this week</a></li>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2022/09/28/making-it-easier-to-submit-bug-reports/">Making it easier to submit bug reports</a></li>
<li>Volker Krause: <a href="https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2022/09/30/kde-itinerary-august-september-2022.html">August/September in KDE Itinerary</a></li>
<li>jriddell.org: <a href="https://jriddell.org/2022/10/02/akademy-2022-in-barcelona-day-1-talks/">Akademy 2022 in Barcelona Day 1 Talks</a></li>
<li>Qt blog: <a href="https://www.qt.io/blog/dialogs-in-qt-quick">Dialogs in Qt Quick</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="nemo-mobile">Nemo Mobile</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nemo Mobile UX team: <a href="https://nemomobile.net/pages/nemomobile-in-september-2022/">Nemomobile in September 2022</a> <em>Nemo Mobile is looking for a postmarketOS maintainer.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="capyloon">Capyloon</h4>
<ul>
<li>Capyloon: <a href="https://capyloon.org/releases.html#sept-27">Tue 27 September 2022</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lemmy - linuxphones: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/503528">early-stage bootable version of Ubuntu Touch based on 20.04 available</a></li>
<li>Lemmy - linuxphones: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/503535">Fairphone 4 Ubuntu Touch (official port)</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Kupfer Blog: <a href="https://kupfer.gitlab.io/blog/2022-10-02_v0-1-3_two_for_one.html">v0.1.3: Two For One</a></li>
<li>Manjaro Blog: <a href="http://blog.manjaro.org/2022/09/27/september-2022-in-manjaro-arm/">September 2022 in Manjaro ARM</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Non-Free-Firmware-Result">Debian Chooses A Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware</a></li>
<li>postmarketOS wiki:<a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Gnome_Shell_for_Mobile">Gnome Mobile Shell is now documented!</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="kernel">Kernel</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-For-Linux-6.1-Pull-Request">Rust Infrastructure Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.1!</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/PinePhone-Keyboard-Linux-6.1">PinePhone Keyboard Driver Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.1</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="stack">Stack</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blumenkrantz-Nukes-17.1k-Mesa">Blumenkrantz Flushes 17.1k Lines Of Old Mesa Code</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
<ul>
<li>nheko (Matrix): <a href="https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/releases/tag/v0.10.2">v0.10.2</a></li>
<li>matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/30/this-week-in-matrix-2022-09-30">This Week in Matrix 2022-09-30</a></li>
<li>matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/29/matrix-v-1-4-release">Matrix v1.4 release</a></li>
<li>matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/upgrade-now-to-address-encryption-vulns-in-matrix-sdks-and-clients">Upgrade now to address E2EE vulnerabilities in matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk and matrix-android-sdk2</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>Purism forums: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/firefox-esr-flickering-bookmarks/18347">Firefox ESR && flickering Bookmarks</a>. <em>The great thing about this issue is that anyone familiar with web technologies can help fixing this <a href="https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox">upstream</a>!</em></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>u/BubblyKombucha: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone/comments/xqleo6/pro_tip_waydroid_with_google_play_services/">Pro Tip: Waydroid with Google Play Services</a>. <em>I don't want Play Services anywhere, but if you do, that's fine and this might be helpful!</em></li>
<li>@linuxphoneapps: <a href="https://twitter.com/linuxphoneapps/status/1575850609953030144#m">"400. FINALLY! https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/"</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://blog.brixit.nl/automated-phone-testing-pt-3/">Automated Phone Testing pt.3</a></li>
<li>Chris Davis: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/2022/09/29/progress-update-for-gnome-43/">Progress Update For GNOME 43</a></li>
<li>TheEvilSkeleton: <a href="https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2022/09/28/what-not-to-recommend-to-flatpak-users.html">What Not to Recommend to Flatpak Users</a></li>
<li>Lup Yuen Lee: <a href="https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/dsi">Understanding PinePhone's Display (MIPI DSI)</a></li>
<li>Norman Feske for Genodians: <a href="https://genodians.org/nfeske/2022-09-29-pine-fun-how-low-can-we-go">Pine fun - How low can we go...</a>. <em>If you're interested in battery life, you must read this!</em></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/reclaiming-digital-privacy/">Reclaiming Digital Privacy</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>Bhushan Shah & Devin Lin at Akademy 2022: <a href="https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/1Yd26fiAAhmrZnVvGcoC86?start=4h56m41s">Plasma Mobile in 2022</a>. <em>I hope I've picked a reasonable timestamp...</em> <a href="https://conf.kde.org/event/4/contributions/96/">Talk details</a>.</li>
<li>Phalio: <a href="https://tube.tchncs.de/w/fEvGjTZ71cBUN9D9Kw61Ju">PinePhone Keyboard Typing</a></li>
<li>not robot: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHSQ17qfrUo">postmarketos pocof1</a>. <em>GNOME mobile for the win!</em></li>
<li>/u/oklopfer: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/xptx2x/mobile_linux_its_time_for_android_to_be_scared/">Mobile Linux: It’s time for Android to be Scared (PinePhone Pro + Mobian + GNOME + Waydroid)</a>. <em>A Waydroid demo (on GNOME Shell without mobile patches). Mental Health Advisory: Don't read the comments, it's r/linux.</em></li>
<li>akrosi8: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq7pKTWi_kI">Xonotic on the PinePhone</a></li>
<li>Aji2205: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2o5I8MRLRU">Install linux debian on wm8650 old tablet</a></li>
<li>Jhony Kernel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4XAvTOG1e0">neofetch postmarketOs nokia n900</a></li>
<li>(RTP) Privacy Tech Tips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRvt6CCi_VY">Set Up Tor ❄️ Snowflake Proxy On Any Linux Device</a></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj4Xoj3gWLI">Reclaim Your Privacy Online</a></li>
<li>Dev Café: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkbGpUgFO_g">Exécuter une application Flutter sur un téléphone Linux (postmarketOS) 👨💻 Tutoriel Dart / Flutter</a>. <em>French, but quite interesting!</em></li>
<li>David Bombal: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kg0Eh7n-RM">Is it possible to hack WiFi with a phone?</a>.<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup> <em>Spoiler: Yes. Warning: Python 2 required, apparently.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>
<p>Huge thanks to</p>
<ul>
<li>niko (who contributed to the last few weeks too btw :))</li>
<li><a href="https://hamblingreen.gitlab.io">hamblingreen,</a> <em>currently dabbling in self-hosting</em></li>
</ul>
<p>and possible further anonymous contributors for helping with this weeks update - and to Plata for <a href="https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io/-/merge_requests/5">a nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speeds up collecting links from feeds by a lot. </p>
<h3 id="something-missing-want-to-contribute">Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
<p>If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please get in touch via social media or email - or just put it into <a href="https://pad.hacc.space/7yCLy5a9QyOLWusIFiTt9A">the hedgedoc pad</a> for the next one!</p>
<p>PS: In case you are wondering about the title <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/108516506484897358">...</a>
PPS: This one has less headlines - <a href="mailto:weekly-update@linmob.net?subject=Feedback%20on%20Weekly%20Update%2039&body=Less%20or%20more%20headlines%20going%20forward%3F">what do you think?</a></p>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
<p>This video was added after initial publication on October 4th, 2022.</p>
</div>
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (31/2022): Automated Phone Testing for postmarketOS and various little updates2022-08-07T21:00:00+00:002022-08-07T21:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-31-2022/<p>Blog posts about the progress of Nemo Mobile and Manjaro ARM and this and that. ;-)</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span>
<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="software-progress">Software progress</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">GNOME ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/08/twig-55/">#55 Wallpapers & Screenshots</a>. <em>Nice progress!</em></li>
<li>Rust in Peace: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2022/08/04/aarch64-for-gnome-nightly-apps/">Aarch64 for GNOME Nightly apps</a>. <em>Easier app testing, yay!</em></li>
<li>Federico's Blog: <a href="https://viruta.org/paying-technical-debt-transcript.html">Paying technical debt in our accessibility infrastructure - Transcript from my GUADEC talk</a>.</li>
<li>Philip Withnall: <a href="https://tecnocode.co.uk/2022/08/05/mini-guadec-2022-berlin-retrospective/">Mini-GUADEC 2022 Berlin: retrospective</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h5 id="releases">Releases</h5>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc/-/releases/v0.21.0">Phoc 0.21 has been released</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-maui-ecosystem">Plasma/Maui ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2022/08/05/this-week-in-kde-easier-samba-sharing-setup/">This week in KDE: Easier Samba sharing setup</a>.</li>
<li>KDE Community: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.25.4/">KDE Plasma 5.25.4, Bugfix Release for August</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="nemo-mobile">Nemo Mobile</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nemo Mobile: <a href="https://nemomobile.net/pages/nemomobile-in-july-2022/">Nemomobile in July 2022</a>. <em>Nice progress!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Manjaro Blog: <a href="https://blog.manjaro.org/july-2022-in-manjaro-arm/">July 2022 in Manjaro ARM</a>. <em>Nice update, Dan!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://social.librem.one/@chrichri/108754910548068030">Chris Vogel: "I just made two exciting discoveries using my #Li…" - Librem Social</a></li>
<li>/u/QushAes: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PinePhoneOfficial/comments/weler6/am_i_the_only_one_disappointed_by_the_software/">Am I the only one disappointed by the software situation of the Pinephone after almost 2 years of it being out? : PinePhoneOfficial</a>. <em>I am so tired of reading complainy posts, but there are some good replies in that thread.</em></li>
<li>amosbatto on Purism forums: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/will-linux-phones-get-decent-processors-in-the-future/17956">Will Linux phones get decent processors in the future?</a>.</li>
<li>They want your <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/vote-for-an-official-case-for-the-l5/17987">Vote for an official case for the L5 - Librem / Phones (Librem 5) - Purism community</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="automated-testing">Automated testing</h4>
<ul>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://blog.brixit.nl/automated-phone-testing-pt-1/">Automated Phone Testing pt.1</a>. <em>Scale!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-keyboard-findings">PinePhone Keyboard Findings</h4>
<ul>
<li>megi's PinePhone Development Log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#072">Pinephone keyboard bugs and new findings</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="maemo-leste">Maemo Leste</h4>
<ul>
<li>Camden Bruce: <a href="https://medium.com/@camden.o.b/maemo-leste-might-be-right-for-your-pinephone-f0345485e8b1">Maemo Leste might be right for your PinePhone</a>. <em>Nice post about a great project!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="first-steps">First steps</h4>
<ul>
<li>Buck Ryan: <a href="https://www.buckryan.com/blog/getting-started-with-pinephone-pro/">Getting started with the PinePhone Pro</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="quicker-delivery">Quicker delivery</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-usa-at-shipping-parity-new-orders-ship-within-10-business-days/">Librem 5 USA At Shipping Parity: New Orders Ship Within 10 Business Days</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>postmarketOS podcast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/21-Interview-Sebastian-Krzyszkowiak-Phosh-Librem5/">#21 INTERVIEW: Sebastian Krzyszkowiak (of Phosh, Librem 5 Fame)</a>. <em>I bet this one is a great one!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://gnulinux.ch/gln025-podcast">GLN025 - Android Launcher, Faster Faster Faster, Linux Smartphones, Kopano</a>. <em>You'll need to understand German to enjoy listening to this.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="maemo-leste-1">Maemo Leste</h4>
<ul>
<li>Camden Bruce: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlDiHf5zdRs">Maemo Leste demo on the PinePhone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="installing-postmarketos">Installing postmarketOS</h4>
<ul>
<li>Vu Android: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMPmxBmTi3k">[Galaxy A72] Install postmarketOS via TWRP | Boot linux on Galaxy A72 | Without losing your data</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tablets">Tablets</h4>
<ul>
<li>Explaining Computers: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaCwLjIf3sU">Linux for an x86 Tablet</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="conference-talks-about-ubuntu-touch">Conference Talks about Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>MCH2022: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7nu2tmr-lQ">2022 - UBports: Imagine a phone that does everything you expect and nothing you don't.</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="something-missing">Something missing?</h3>
<p>If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please get in touch via social media or email!</p>
<p>PS: In case you are wondering about the title <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/108516506484897358">...</a></p>
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Weekly Update (4/2022): New releases of Phosh, phoc, Squeekboard and Chatty (with MMS), suspend on the PinePhone Pro and GStreamer 1.20 RC12022-01-28T22:15:00+00:002022-01-28T22:15:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-4-2022/<p>In the fourth week of 2022, we're having an overhaul of the GNOME on Mobile stack delivering important features like MMS or arbitrary (as in non-numeric) passwords, a report on what Nemo Mobile accomplished in January, and three PinePhone gaming videos!</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="editorial">Editorial</h3>
<p>While I am writing these lines, I have a <em>PinePhone Pro</em> a few meters away in my backpack with me. It's still in its box though, as I want to make a proper unboxing video – but as I am not at home, this can't happen today. The odd thing is: It feels good to not rush into it. Being able to take time, to maybe read up a bit about what's supposed to be working and what current workarounds are, is a nice luxury.<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>
Looking at the small box that contains the PinePhone Pro makes me think of the Librem 5 (and its big box) I ordered 1559 days ago and that likely is going to arrive some time this year. How fun would it be if it arrived precisely 1600 days after ordering?
But that's enough rambling. Have fun reading what happened in the past seven days!</p>
<h3 id="hardware-news">Hardware news</h3>
<ul>
<li>Brian Benschoff: <a href="https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/LinuxDevice.html">A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15</a> (via <a href="https://liliputing.com/2022/01/this-minimum-viable-computer-is-a-pocket-sized-pc-that-could-cost-15-to-make.html">Liliputing</a>).</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="hardware-enablement-news">Hardware enablement news</h3>
<ul>
<li>PinePhone Pro hardware enablement has been making progress:
<ul>
<li>With this <a href="https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/core/uboot-pinephonepro/-/jobs/7393">new build of uboot, suspend is coming to Manjaro on the PinePhone Pro</a>, which is huge news for battery life. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@martijnbraam/107701871046054627">And it's not just Manjaro</a>.</li>
<li>USB-C video out <a href="https://twitter.com/benpocalypse/status/1487112137881305091">can also work (here on Mobian)</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="software-news">Software news</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">GNOME ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/releases#v0.15.0">Phosh 0.15.0 is out</a>, delivering swipeable notification frames; VPN quicksettings, authentication and status icon; and support for arbitrary passwords among other things. <em>One of my favorites is that the night light feature is now working. Soo nice when tired.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc/-/releases/v0.12.0">Phoc 0.12.0 was also released</a>. </li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/commit/d49ce45de0956432cef9b957f806d9377fee4bc0">Squeekboard 1.16 joined the group</a>, supporting a few new languages and delivering multiple small fixes.</li>
<li><a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/commit/da26b33a98137e542efd840eadae426b0cdb7b42">Chatty 0.6.0 also landed</a>, delivering MMS for those who need it._</li>
<li>Also, <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/releases#42.beta.1">GNOME Calls 42.beta.1</a> has been released, delivering SIP improvements.</li>
<li>Julian Sparber: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/jsparber/2022/01/28/a-long-overdue-update-fractal-next/">A Long Overdue Update – Fractal-next</a>. _</li>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/01/twig-28/">#28 PrintScrn</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-maui-ecosystem">Plasma/Maui ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dan Johansen: <a href="https://blog.strits.dk/how-to-test-plasma-5-24-beta-on-plasma-mobile/">How to test Plasma 5.24 beta on Plasma Mobile</a>. <em>Give it a try!</em></li>
<li>KDE.news: <a href="https://dot.kde.org/2022/01/26/season-kde-kicks">Season of KDE Kicks Off</a>. <em>I am really looking forward to notifications in Tokodon and flatpak permission management in Discover!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="gstreamer">GStreamer</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GStreamer-1.20-RC1">GStreamer 1.20 RC1 Released With Many Exciting Improvements</a>. <em>GStreamer 1.20 is going to be super exciting for Cedrus and Hantro VPU support alone!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distro-releases">Distro releases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Danct12 has released <a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20220124">new images of his Arch Linux ARM based distribution</a> for the first time this year. <em>Since the release, the new versions of Phosh, phoc, Squeekboard and Chatty have landed!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/phosh/releases/tag/beta21">Manjaro Phosh Beta 21</a> and</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/plasma-mobile/releases/tag/beta10">Manjaro Plasma Mobile Beta 10</a> have also been released.</li>
<li>Nemo Mobile have also released <a href="https://img.nemomobile.net/2022.05/">new images for the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro</a>. <em>It's supposed to stabilize until May, hence the number.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="nemo-mobile">Nemo Mobile</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nemo Mobile: <a href="https://nemomobile.net/pages/nemomobile-in-january-2022/">NemoMobile in January/2022</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-keyboard">PinePhone Keyboard</h4>
<ul>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#058">Pinephone Keybaord – kernel driver merged</a>.</li>
<li>presire: <a href="https://github.com/presire/PPKeyboard_How_to_Install">PinePhone Keyboard Driver Installation for Mobian</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-usage-reports">PinePhone usage reports</h4>
<ul>
<li>/u/bloggerdan: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PinePhoneOfficial/comments/sbricv/daily_driving_plasma_mobile_part_2/">Daily Driving Plasma Mobile Part 2</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="rust-y-cute-developments">Rust-y cute Developments</h4>
<ul>
<li>Ayush Singh: <a href="https://www.programmershideaway.xyz/posts/post1/">Creating Rust/QML Project</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports blog: <a href="https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-115-3800">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 115</a>. <em>The written summary of the past Q&A. Make sure to join Q&A 116 on January 29th, 7 pm UTC!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="purism">Purism</h4>
<ul>
<li>Todd Weaver for Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/purism-2022-roadmap/">Purism 2022 Roadmap</a>. <em>I didn't know roadmaps are even allowed to be this vague.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>PineTalk: <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2022/01/26/6118/">Season 2 Episode 5: Talk About a Dense 15 Minutes</a>. <em>Nice one!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="pinephone-pro-gaming">PinePhone (Pro) Gaming</h4>
<ul>
<li>Raezroth Helmiem: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPr0Aw3xZrA">PinePhone Pro running Portal 2 through Steam using Box86</a>.</li>
<li>CalcProgrammer1: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAfEB0B14fw">Half Life 2 Deathmatch and Half Life 2 on PinePhone Pro with Box86</a>.</li>
<li>Grhmhome: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKGJQW24fHU">pico 8 on the Pinephone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-pro-experiments">PinePhone Pro Experiments</h4>
<ul>
<li>Danct12: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E0kOIWVI7A">Compiz running on PinePhone Pro</a>. <em>Danct12's video description is very, very fitting.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-criticism">PinePhone Criticism</h4>
<ul>
<li>HyperVegan: <a href="https://odysee.com/@HyperVegan:2/20220125_FinallyTalkingAboutPinephone_720p30fps:5">Pinephone With Mobian As Daily Driver In 2021</a>. <em>Feedback on things that happened months ago is rarely really useful.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="cute-tablets">Cute Tablets</h4>
<ul>
<li>ETA PRIME: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDMYBrYk-aY">This New Open Source CM4 Powered Linux Tablet Is Awesome! Hands-On With The Cutie Pi</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="bootloaders">Bootloaders</h4>
<ul>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/b166d197-e755-47c9-9bbe-03ad524c0205">Tow-Boot on the Pinebook Pro</a>. <em><a href="https://tow-boot.org">Tow-Boot</a> is a cool project that works on making booting ARM devices boring. While boring may sound ... um ... boring, in this case it's actually super exciting to have a more standardized approach on ARM, as it makes work for distributions a lot easier.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pine64-quarterly-community-q-a">PINE64 Quarterly Community Q&A</h4>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tORlxpzmF3U">Quarterly Community Q&A session [Live recording]</a>. <em>A long listen, but worth it, e.g. to learn about a PinePhone NFC back cover.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="something-missing">Something missing?</h3>
<p>If your projects' cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please get in touch via social media or email!</p>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
<p>Coincidentally, with my <a href="https://devtube.dev-wiiki.de">currently used PeerTube instance going offline soon</a>, I am glad to delay the moment of "okay, I do need to fix this and find a new instance" for a few more hours. I am wondering if I should not just take some VPS and put raw video files on there, files in a folder, FOSDEM style – I don't want to run a PeerTube instance myself, and I dislike moving instances (and fear this might occur again). Suggestions on this issue are very much welcome!</p>
</div>
Weekly Update (3/2022): First PINE64 Community Update and first Ubuntu Touch Q&A of 2022, some PinePhone keyboard videos, news on OpenBSD and Genode on the PinePhone.2022-01-21T21:00:00+00:002022-01-21T21:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-3-2022/<p>The third week of 2022 has the release of postmarketOS 21.12 Service Pack 1 and many smaller stories – a comparatively quiet week. </p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="hardware-news">Hardware news</h3>
<ul>
<li>PINE64 published the January Community Update (<a href="https://www.pine64.org/2022/01/15/january-update-more-news/">blog post</a>, <a href="https://tilvids.com/w/35XgkrMqrU8MME59pqH8aC">video</a>), without further highly exciting product announcements. This makes sense, as Chinese New Year is approaching, which means that operations (be it manufacturing, shipping or else) pretty much shut down for a bit. The PineNote Developer Edition is now available (for everyone), but ... even if you are an eInk enthusiast, you might still want to hold off if not a developer. <em>This time, PizzaLovingNerds video is especially good, so make sure to <a href="https://linmob.net/weekly-update-3-2022/#pine64-community-update">watch it</a>!</em> </li>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2022/01/this-kit-turns-a-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-into-a-pocket-computer-with-a-keyboard-and-display-crowdfunding-soon.html">This kit turns a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W into a pocket computer with a keyboard and display (crowdfunding soon)</a>. <em>Reminds me of the PocketC.H.I.P., nice.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="fun-projects">Fun projects</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/utopiah/status/1351436027462881280">Using the PinePhone accelerometer as a device to keep you walking</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="software-news">Software news</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">GNOME ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/commit/30253118333ac52d3f137e76e063450cf1ffbfea">Chatty 0.6.0 beta has been released</a> (with the latest stable release still being 0.4.0), bumping the version due to necessary changes that change the database schema and thus preventing easy downgrades.</li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/secrets/-/tags">Secrets 0.6.0 and 0.6.1, a subsequent bugfix release, where released this week.</a> <em>This is GNOME PasswordSafe gone GTK 4/libadwaita.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2022-January/msg00004.html">GNOME 42.alpha</a> has been released – the final release is going to happen in march, taking many apps to a new GTK4 base.</li>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/01/twig-27/">#27 Borderless</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-maui-ecosystem">Plasma/Maui ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-6.3-Alpha">Qt 6.3 Alpha Released With New Qt Quick Compiler For Commercial Customers</a>. <em>Sad to see speed improvements as a "commercial guys only" feature.</em></li>
<li>Volker Krause: <a href="https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2022/01/15/kf6-continuous-integration.html">KDE Frameworks 6 Continuous Integration</a>. <em>Great!</em></li>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2022/01/18/the-15-minute-bug-initiative/">The 15-Minute Bug Initiative</a>. <em>Not mobile specific, but quite important, anyway!</em></li>
<li>Niccolò Ve: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDufEXZSnL0">KDE NEWS - Kirigami Improvements, New Multi-Monitor Tools, And More!</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="non-linux">Non-Linux</h4>
<ul>
<li>Genode: <a href="https://genode.org/news/road-map-for-2022">Road Map for 2022</a>. <em>The road map includes the following: "we plan to take Genode on the Pinephone to a level where we can routinely use it for advanced applications, in particular video chat". Impressive plans!</em></li>
<li>ExoticSilicon.com: <a href="https://www.exoticsilicon.com/crystal/pinephone_openbsd">Crystal installs OpenBSD on the Pinephone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distro-releases">Distro releases</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://postmarketos.org/blog/2022/01/17/v21.12.1-release/">postmarketOS v21.12 Service Pack 1 has been released</a>. <em>Great to see the Nokia N900 being back, Librem 5 GPS working now, the latest Sxmo and adding support for the PinePhone keyboard.</em> </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="kernel-building">Kernel building</h4>
<ul>
<li>xnux.eu: <a href="https://xnux.eu/howtos/build-pinephone-kernel.html">How to build megi's PinePhone kernel</a>. <em>Megi added a how to, so if you've been holding off on building your own kernel, ...</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pine64-critisism">PINE64 Critisism</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Drew DeVault: <a href="https://drewdevault.com/2022/01/18/Pine64s-weird-priorities.html">Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities</a>. <em>This is an interesting read, and I agree that it would be great if PINE64 could do more with regard to Drew's first priority ("Implementing and upstreaming kernel drivers, u-Boot support, etc") to improve their devices software story.<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup> Regarding the rest, I think that unless PINE64 is switching to focus on phones exclusively or mostly (remember: They make SBCs, laptops and tablets, too), I am not too sure. I understand PINE64 as a "hardware provider", not a "product company" – it's up to the community to contribute (with time and work or financially) to the software development. If this is the case, this story could be told better or more openly – I've frequently seen people oder multiple PinePhones to support the effort in places where I felt that spending the same amount across a few software projects would have helped more. Assuming I am not completely wrong here, were just talking about the nightmare of funding FOSS projects properly once again.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://teddit.net/r/PinePhoneOfficial/comments/s7ljs4/pine64_should_reevaluate_their_community/">Related Reddit thread</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30009452">Related Hacker News thread</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="keyboard">Keyboard</h4>
<ul>
<li>/u/GrumpyCat79: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone/comments/s3zgv4/what_desktop_environment_do_you_guys_use_with_the/">What Desktop Environment do you guys use with the keyboard?</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="mainstream-publications-write-about-the-pinephone-pro">Mainstream Publications write about the PinePhone Pro</h4>
<ul>
<li>ArsTechnica: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/the-pinephone-pro-brings-upgraded-hardware-to-the-linux-phone/">The PinePhone Pro brings upgraded hardware to the Linux phone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="postmarketos-on-the-samsung-galaxy-s5">postmarketOS on the SAMSUNG Galaxy S5</h4>
<ul>
<li>project-insanity: <a href="https://blog.project-insanity.org/2022/01/18/this-is-what-you-already-can-do-with-linux-on-a-low-budget-smartphone">This is what you already can do with Linux on a low-budget smartphone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="pine64-community-update">PINE64 Community Update</h4>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://tilvids.com/w/35XgkrMqrU8MME59pqH8aC">January Update: More News</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-keyboard">PinePhone Keyboard</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jose Briones: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdRrxYqKeBE">Pinephone Keyboard Review</a>. </li>
<li>Izaic's Linux: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnzcoAKbTN4">PinePhone Pro with Keyboard - Plasma Mobile Bug</a>.</li>
<li>(RTP) Privacy Tech Tips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xntd5lx2Av0">Pinephone Keyboard Case First Impression + Opensnitch Firewall + Faraday Bag #Quickie</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubports-ubuntu-touch">UBports Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ZAl-dFB4A">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 115</a>. <em>This is a really good one, make sure to watch carefully in the beginning and listen until the end.</em></li>
<li>Geotechland: <a href="https://tilvids.com/w/jHVoLqnUvvH5ipdqGKkUuD">Ubuntu Touch OTA-21 New Updates</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="conference-talks">Conference Talks</h4>
<ul>
<li>linux.conf.au: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9i5c7J29VU">"A year in the life of GTK" - Emmanuele Bassi</a>. <em>Great talk detailing the way towards and ideas behind GTK4!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="shorts">Shorts</h4>
<ul>
<li>@utopiah: <a href="https://twitter.com/utopiah/status/1483572211407540229">postmarketOS Sxmo and PinePhone Keyboard</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="something-missing">Something missing?</h3>
<p>If your projects' cool story is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please get in touch via social media or email!</p>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
<p>Let me also say that I mostly agree with his comments regarding Manjaro.</p>
</div>
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>