LINux on MOBile - PurismLINMOB.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.Zola2023-08-05T20:40:28+00:00https://linmob.net/tags/purism/feed.xmlWeekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (31/2023): Phosh 0.30.0 bringing newer wlroots, rk2aw for better booting, and Plasma Desktop on the PineTab-V2023-08-05T20:40:28+00:002023-08-05T20:40:28+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-31-2023/<p>Also: New Droidian Features, pmbootstrap 2.0, another "man in armchair with cat"-video -> some more controversy, and more!</p>
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<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="hardware-non-linux">Hardware (Non-Linux)</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.paxo.fr/paxo-phone">Paxo - Systèmes électroniques open-source et intelligents</a>. <em>Laurent: DIY phone made by a teenager. The phone OS is called PAXOS_8 and seems to have been made from scratch. The 3D models, motherboard schema, and OS are open-source.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="hardware-enablement">Hardware enablement</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@Fishwaldo/110830727018142522">Justin: "My KDE Plasma Image for the #PineTab V…"</a>. _Wow, that was quick!</li>
<li><a href="https://pony.social/@isa/110822347144742960">nia (3 letter agency): "got mainline Linux booting on a OnePlus 9 Pro…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mstdn.social/@justsoup/110826767952765892">justsoup: "Since my last update post on the TCL A3 I have made some good progress.…"</a></li>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20230804-pxa1908-lkml-v3-0-8e48fca37099@skole.hr/">[PATCH v3 0/8] Initial Marvell PXA1908 support</a></li>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20230802-fp4-bluetooth-v3-0-7c9e7a6e624b@fairphone.com/">[PATCH v3 0/2] Add WCN3988 Bluetooth support for Fairphone 4</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="software">Software</h3>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@droidian/110817076977745140">Droidian Linux: "New #Droidian feature🎉 Timer support added to Camera…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@droidian/110828401489115400">Droidian Linux: "Some progress on #Waydroid settings…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS/110813041030733508">postmarketOS: "pmbootstrap 2.0.0 is here"</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Asahi-Remix-Coming">Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">Gnome Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/08/twig-107/">#107 Reduced Overheads</a></li>
<li>Allan Day: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2023/08/02/what-to-do-with-the-gnome-wiki/">What to do with the GNOME wiki?</a></li>
<li>Cassidy James: <a href="https://cassidyjames.com/blog/stars-thumbs-app-ratings-reviews-odrs/">Stars & Thumbs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.blaede.family/@cassidy/110809786238281040">Cassidy James :eos: :gnome:: "A challenge proposed by @jjard…" - Blaede Family</a></li>
<li><a href="https://floss.social/@rmader/110815436058994927">Robert Mader: "So we'll have a neat little camera indicator in #gnome45. …"</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="phosh">Phosh</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phosh.mobi: <a href="https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.30.0/">Phosh 0.30.0</a></li>
<li>Guido Günther: <a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/110830829192098690">#FroSCon starts tomorrow and we're having a short #phosh get together in the 📱 devroom (C117) at 16:30. Everyone interested is invited to share some #MobileLinux stories, attach names to faces and 🍾 the 0.30.0 release.https://programm.froscon.org/2023/events/2990.html</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-ecosystem">Plasma Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/03/august-plasma-6-progress-update/">August Plasma 6 progress update</a></li>
<li>Volker Krause: <a href="https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/08/05/kde-itinerary-june-july-2023.html">June/July in KDE Itinerary</a></li>
<li>David Edmundson: <a href="http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/new-ideas-using-wayland-input-methods/">New ideas using Wayland Input Methods</a></li>
<li>KDE Announcements: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.7/">KDE Plasma 5.27.7, Bugfix Release for August</a></li>
<li>redstrate: <a href="https://redstrate.com/blog/2023/07/my-work-in-kde-for-july-2023/">My work in KDE for July 2023</a></li>
<li>Carl Schwan: <a href="https://carlschwan.eu/2023/07/30/debugging-the-keyboard-navigation-in-your-qml-application/">Debugging the keyboard navigation in your QML application</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/08/04/this-week-in-matrix-2023-08-04/">This Week in Matrix 2023-08-04</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="stack">Stack</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-23.2-RC2">XWayland 23.2 RC2 Restores An Optimization For Depth 24 Windows</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth Noting</h3>
<p>-<a href="https://github.com/jmlich/sensorfw/pull/1">loader.cpp: Fix plugin suffix for Qt6 by Herrie82 · Pull Request #1 · jmlich/sensorfw · GitHub</a> <em>Great cross-project collaboration!</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://im-in.space/@etam/110827373046063326">Etam: "After almost 2 years of daily driving my #Librem 5 …"</a>. <em>Sad. This must be fixable, right?</em></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@hamblingreen/110805051235670987">hamblingreen: "i've continued the #frameufferphone…"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@devrtz/110836341520713702">devrtz: "Is your phone also running #archlinux…"</a> <em>LOL, brilliant!</em></li>
<li>r/MobileLinux: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilelinux/comments/15hwtif/gps_navigation_for_mobile_linux/">GPS navigation for Mobile Linux?</a></li>
<li>PinePhone (Reddit): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone/comments/15fnri0/pinephone_on_a_power_source_with_usb_dock/">PinePhone on a power source with USB dock.</a></li>
<li>r/PINE64official: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/15diwwv/how_does_mobile_linux_differ_from_desktop_linux/">How does mobile Linux differ from desktop Linux?</a></li>
<li>Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/louiss-rossman-on-purism/21009">Louiss Rossman on Purism</a></li>
<li>@dos@librem.one: <a href="https://social.librem.one/@dos/110817247919561274">After finally attempting to rescue my long broken #Librem5 devkit, I ended up with it booting into this Feb 2020 image. It already somewhat resembles the current thing, but gosh, we sure have made a lot of progress since then! 😁Excuse the white balance being all over the place, this was <em>not</em> shotonlibrem5 ;)#phosh #phoc #gnome #mobile #gnu #linux #mobilelinux #purism #linuxsmartphones #linuxmobile</a></li>
<li>Lemmy - linuxphones: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/2765618">Is it possible to run Android Auto using Waydroid?</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth Reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Nicholas Roth: <a href="https://nicholasroth.net/2023/07/09/the-pulseaudio-pipewire-frankeinstein-that-enables-good-enough-sound-and-camera-pinephone-pro/">The Pulseaudio-Pipewire Frankeinstein that Enables Good-Enough Sound and Camera (PinePhone Pro)</a>. <em>Missed this when it came out, great read and quite helpful!</em></li>
<li>LaoBlog: <a href="https://blog.libero.it/Laoblog2/16680478.html">Pinephone review: Rhino Linux beta su LaoBlog</a></li>
<li>megis PinePhone Development Log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#092">Update on the Pinephone Pro U-Boot build</a></li>
<li>megis PinePhone Development Log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#091">My new U-Boot builds</a></li>
<li>megis PinePhone Development Log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#090">rk2aw released along with new U-Boot builds</a></li>
<li>Hackaday: <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/08/03/displayport-taming-the-altmode/">DisplayPort: Taming The Altmode</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="shameless-self-promotion">Shameless self-promotion</h4>
<ul>
<li>LINMOB.net: <a href="https://linmob.net/hello-froscon/">Hello, FrOSCon 2023!</a>. <em>BTW, maybe if someone takes notes tomorrow anyway, can I have a glimpse? Rest assured, nothing will be published without consent.</em></li>
<li>LinuxPhoneApps.org: <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org/blog/new-listed-apps-q2-2023/">New Apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q2/2023: 15 New Apps, Packaging Info and Tooling Improvements</a>. <em>Too many "New" in this title, I know!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth Listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>postmarketOS Podcast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/33-Interview-Anjan-Sxmo/">#33 INTERVIEW: Anjan (of Sxmo Fame)</a>. <em>Great episode, quite entertaining!</em>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/2713739?scrollToComments=true">#33 INTERVIEW: Anjan (of Sxmo Fame) - Lemmy</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth Watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>devrtz: <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2023-2950-the_year_of_linux_on_desktop_wmobile">The year of Linux On Desktop^WMobile</a></li>
<li>ΞЖKↃ Tech Tips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gXsbBf8S_Y">displaylink test on oneplus 6t with postmarket os</a>. <em>This is really cool!</em></li>
<li>Louis Rossmann: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk">Purism wants me to DELETE my video exposing their refund scam & delay tactic - answer is NO!</a>. <em>Video content: "Person loosely connected with Purism writes weird email, Video title: [see above]... That said, do watch it. BTW: I love how some commenters keep claiming 'it all was a scam right from the beginning'. Just consider the investment in software alone (yes, Purism paid for getting Free Software written), then what a complicated, different design the Librem 5 is (this really is not 'Yet Another Mediatek Android With a Custom Logo printed on'.).... It would truly be the dumbest scam ever - for the scammer, not the scammee. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/110824101242827944">See also</a></em>
<ul>
<li>r/Purism: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/15giudr/extremely_damaging/">Extremely damaging</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Solar Gaming: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WoB2daIvts">Pinephone pro windows questions and answers</a>.</li>
<li>Retera: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkGYgbIgDrw">Why I love my Librem5 from Purism</a></li>
<li>Continuum Gaming: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6_qerScfE">Continuum Gaming E375: Sailfish OS app – Situations</a></li>
<li>Caffeine: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiH8pYk2ikY">Sailfish OS on the Samsung Galaxy SII / i9100</a></li>
<li>Brodie Robertson: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMolA5H39IE">GNU Sends Cease & Desist To Libreboot Developer</a>. <em>Not mobile specific, but kinda fun!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>
<p>Huge thanks to Plata for <a href="https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io/-/merge_requests/5">the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
<h3 id="something-missing-want-to-contribute">Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
<p>If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into <a href="https://pad.hacc.space/7yCLy5a9QyOLWusIFiTt9A?edit">the hedgedoc pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) <strong>If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (26/2023): Liberty Phones and Nemo Mobile progress2023-07-02T21:00:41+00:002023-07-02T21:00:41+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-26-2023/<p>It's almost three years after the first weekly update (stay tuned for <a href="https://pad.hacc.space/5g5RIS0qSh2hoPhMzCsL9w?edit">a look back</a> on tuesday (or help with it beforehand :) ), and we have a <em>new</em> Linux Phone offering by Purism that feels quite familiar.</p>
<p>PSA: If you still use Twitter actively, please help with <a href="https://twitter.com/linmobblog/status/1675382272625614848">collecting interesting/relevant content</a>! _If you had asked me, how Twitter could get even worse a week ago, I would not have been able to predict this. Nitter is broken, and as all remaining ways to interface with Twitter are quite terrible and far too time-consuming.</p>
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<p><em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<h3 id="hardware">Hardware</h3>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-liberty-phone/">Introducing the Liberty Phone</a>. <em>This is just a Librem 5 with 4GB of RAM (which the Librem 5 USA technically has too, IIRC) and 128 GB eMMC. As a Librem 5 (3GB/32GB) user, these are welcome upgrades, but ... that naming and price tag make it so that I just can't get myself to feel excitement, sorry.</em></li>
</ul>
<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/2023/06/twig-102/">#102 Contextual Back Buttons</a>. <em>I need to check out iPlan!</em></li>
<li>Marcus Lundblad: <a href="http://ml4711.blogspot.com/2023/07/summer-maps.html">Summer Maps</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="phosh">Phosh</h4>
<ul>
<li>Guido Günther: <a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/110606019406438830">While one could get back to an ongoing call on #phosh's lockscreen by swipingto the right it wasn't clear if there was still a call ongoing. This will beimproved by showing a notification on the lockscreen making it hard to miss (and which we can likely also use to switch between calls once the calls app supports it):1️⃣ /3️⃣</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-ecosystem">Plasma Ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/30/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-development-continues/">This week in KDE: Plasma 6 development continues</a></li>
<li>redstrate: <a href="https://redstrate.com/blog/2023/06/my-work-in-kde-for-june-2023/">My work in KDE for June 2023</a></li>
<li>k3yss: <a href="https://k3yss.github.io/posts/gsoc_blog4/">GSoC-23 Week 3-4 | Finalizing Account Moderation tool & Adding Report Moderation Tool #4</a></li>
<li>tsdgeos: <a href="https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2023/06/kde-gear-2308-release-schedule.html">KDE Gear 23.08 release schedule</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unofficial Ubuntu Touch for PinePhone (Pro): <a href="https://gitlab.com/ook37/pinephone-pro-debos/-/tags/v0.7">v0.7</a></li>
<li>Ubuntu Touch Forums News: <a href="https://forums.ubports.com/topic/9077/a-phone-without-apple-or-google-it-s-possible">A phone without Apple or Google? It's possible!</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="nemo-mobile">Nemo Mobile</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jozef Mlich: <a href="https://blog.mlich.cz/2023/06/nemomobile-in-june-2023/">NemoMobile in June/2023</a>. <em>Nice collection! Nemo Mobile on openSuSE sounds interesting!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="kernel">Kernel</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-SoCs">Alibaba T-Head TH1520 RISC-V CPU & A Few New Arm SoCs Ready For Linux 6.5</a></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/MSM-Adreno-700-Series">Qualcomm Adreno 700 Series GPU Support Published For Open-Source Linux Driver</a></li>
<li>phone-devel: <a href="http://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/208D596A-5F22-479B-9125-81E8A6A3D90B@goldelico.com/">Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] Imagination Technologies PowerVR DRM driver</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="matrix">Matrix</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matrix.org: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2023/06/30/this-week-in-matrix-2023-06-30/">This Week in Matrix 2023-06-30</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="releases">Releases</h4>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth Noting</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kop316/110635393301249862">Chris: "This week marks 18 months sinc…" - Fosstodon</a>. <em>Congrats!</em></li>
<li><a href="https://floss.social/@carlschwan/110633615390229794">Carl Schwan :kde:: "Current status of my train tri…" - FLOSS.social</a>. <em>Itinerary is just great!</em></li>
<li>r/MobileLinux: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilelinux/comments/14m9ykp/support_for_linux_distributions_added_to/">Support for Linux distributions added to customrombay.org</a></li>
<li>Lemmy - linuxphones: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/1536978">Are there any android emulators on Linux phones?</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth Reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Purism community: <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/constructive-criticism-and-review-of-purism-and-the-librem-5/20685">Constructive criticism (and review) of Purism and the Librem 5</a></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-10-3-ui-and-camera/">PureOS 10.3 UI and Camera</a>. <em>Great work!</em></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-celebration-sale-200-off-for-a-limited-time/">Librem 5 Celebration Sale $200 off For a Limited Time</a>. <em>I recommend buying used, but if you need new stuff ...</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth Watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>RTP Tech Tips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRNXTPtFUE">France Turns On IoT Spying & Ramble Reddit-like Privacy Platform</a></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AG-IX6pq_k">PureOS 10.3 UI and Camera</a></li>
<li>Avisando <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOeshaIru_0">Gnome Mobile on PinePhone: First Look</a></li>
<li>Continuum Gaming: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5WsgUeh7l0&pp=ygULc2FpbGZpc2ggb3M%3D">Continuum Gaming E371: Sailfish OS Shake Torch</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>
<p>Huge thanks to Plata for <a href="https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io/-/merge_requests/5">the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
<h3 id="something-missing-want-to-contribute">Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
<p>If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into <a href="https://pad.hacc.space/7yCLy5a9QyOLWusIFiTt9A?edit">the hedgedoc pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) <strong>If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>
Weekly Update (1-2/2022): PinePhone Pro and accessories shipping, Poco F1 call audio progress, libadwaita 1.0, and modem firmware updating2022-01-14T19:40:00+00:002022-01-15T21:52:00+00:00https://linmob.net/weekly-update-1-2-2022/<p><em>A new year begins with exciting news regarding Linux Phones:</em> Experimental call audio on Snapdragon 845 devices, better PinePhone modem updating for postmarketOS (Edge), PinePhone accesories and PinePhone Pro up for order, Ubuntu Touch OTA 21, Sxmo 1.7.0 and more! Also: This weekly update has a new name!</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="editorial-a-new-start-a-slightly-different-format">Editorial: A new start, a slightly different format</h3>
<p>At the end of 2021, I felt increasingly bored and tired by writing all these weekly updates. While my process of going through things using an RSS agregator is not too bad, the process of manually copy-pasting all these URLs, names and titles into an unordered list of Markdown links felt more and more like bad busywork. To be frank: There have been many weeks where I dreaded my Wednesday evening. I did not want to go through tons of irrelevant content to make sure I wouldn't miss the interesting tidbits any more.</p>
<p>But: Writing regular little updates is easier to do for me than editing videos, and enough people told me how much they like these updates. So I've decided to carry on, but due to less time<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>, I will exclude duplicate posts that don't add much value. To ease this work for me, just make sure <a href="https://linmob.net/weekly-update-1-2-2022/#something-missing">to ping me</a> if I don't include your cool project all the time anyway! Going forward, I want to change hosting of this site to a public Git repo again (likely framagit.org), to make merge requests or even collaborative editing possible.</p>
<h3 id="hardware-news">Hardware news</h3>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2022/01/11/pinephone-pro-explorer-edition-pre-orders-open-january-11/">PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition is now available for purchase.</a>. If you understand, that this device is not ready yet as hardware enablement is not fully done (see <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/107605215463739200">also</a>), go get one. <em>I ordered one.</em></li>
<li>Also, PINE64 have <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/12/31/happy-new-year-the-keyboard-and-cases-are-here/">finally made the PinePhone accessories available</a> (the keyboard<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#2">2</a></sup> and various backcovers: LoRa, Wireless Charging and Fingerprint sensor) , shortly after LinBits 77. I've ordered all the things and received them yesterday but have not really tried them out extensively.<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#3">3</a></sup> <a href="https://linmob.net/weekly-update-1-2-2022/#pinephone-keyboard-first-impressions-and-fixes">Read some PinePhone keyboard first impressions below</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="hardware-enablement-news">Hardware enablement news</h3>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="https://twitter.com/joelselvaraj95/status/1478971761127350275">Xiaomi Poco F1 is about to get support for audio calls soon-ish</a>! <em>Looks like Snapdragon 845 phones are going to be fully viable mainline Linux phones relatively soon (soon as in later this year).</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="software-news">Software news</h3>
<h4 id="gnome-ecosystem">GNOME ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/01/twig-25/">#25 The Big 1.0</a>.</li>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/01/twig-26/">#26 Contact Me</a>. <em>Contacts and Secret sound very promising! And boy do I look forward to alphanumeric passwords for Phosh!</em></li>
<li>Alexander Mikhaylenko: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/12/31/libadwaita-1-0/">Libadwaita 1.0</a><em>Libadwaita 1.0 is a big deal, for packaging in distributions alone. This should increase distro adoption of GTK4/Libadwaita applications, many of which running fine on Linux Phones.</em></li>
<li>Allan Day: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2022/01/13/human-interface-guidelines-libadwaita-1-0-edition/">Human Interface Guidelines, libadwaita 1.0 edition</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plasma-maui-ecosystem">Plasma/Maui ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li>Maui Project: <a href="https://mauikit.org/blog/maui-report-17/">Maui Report 17</a>.</li>
<li>Volker Krause: <a href="https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2022/01/08/kde-pim-november-december-2021.html">November/December in KDE PIM</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubports-ubuntu-touch">UBports Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dalton Durst for UBports: <a href="http://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-21-release-3798">Ubuntu Touch OTA-21 Release</a>. <em>While this release is "just" for the non-mainline devices (not for PinePhone or PineTab), it's great to see so much feature work continuing while the transition to an Ubuntu 20.04 base is happening.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="sxmo-1-70">Sxmo 1.70</h4>
<p>Sxmo 1.7.0 is out, delivering multiple improvements including visual voicemail support. Make sure to <a href="https://lists.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-announce/%3C20220107164241.u7q5uaok5wkw37y6%40worker.anaproy.lxd%3E">read the announcement</a> for more details.</p>
<h4 id="others">Others</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nemo mobile: <a href="https://nemomobile.net/pages/put-your-hand-to-the-work-on-nemomobile/">Put your hand to the work on Nemomobile</a>. <em>A bug list, so if contributing more is on your list of new year resolutions, you can get to work here.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="kernel-work">Kernel work</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Hantro-VP9-Linux-5.17">Hantro Media Driver Adds VP9 Acceleration With Linux 5.17</a>. <em>This is relevant for both the Librem 5 and the PinePhone Pro.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="postmarketos-awesomeness">postmarketOS awesomeness</h4>
<ul>
<li>Martijn Braam: <a href="https://blog.brixit.nl/why-installers-are-needed-for-fde/">Why installers are needed for disk encryption</a>. <em>Great explainer. I hope that more distributions adopt similar installers.</em></li>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/postmarketos-linux-live-usb-fastboot-network-boot/">You can now live-boot postmarketOS on Android phones</a>.</li>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/draft-automating-the-little-things-might-actually-be-a-bad-idea/">Automating the little things</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="firmware-management">Firmware management</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dylan van Assche: <a href="https://dylanvanassche.be/blog/2022/pinephone-modem-upgrade/">Upgrading your PinePhone modem easily</a>. <em>This is huge news, and a great way to solve the modem firmware conundrum: PINE64 can't ship the open source firmare, which is a security risk. Dylan's approach does not reinvent the wheel, but works with minor changes to existing, established projects - this is going to be great once it lands!</em>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fwupd-1.7.4-Released">Fwupd 1.7.4 Supports More Hardware For Firmware Updating On Linux</a>. <em>Quectel EG25-G is in there!</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="long-term-support">Long Term Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports: <a href="http://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-and-the-10-year-smartphone-3799">Ubuntu Touch and the 10 Year Smartphone</a>. <em>The idea of keeping devices usable (and at least somewhat secure to use) for really long time frames is something that drives my excitement about Linux Phones, as I believe the "every two years a new phone" model is not sustainable at all. *Pretends he does not own way too many smartphones.*</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="purism-news">Purism news</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/2021-year-in-review-design/">2021 Year in Review: Design</a>.</li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/throwback-to-2021-more-from-librem-5-in-2022/">Throwback to 2021, More from Librem 5 in 2022</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-keyboard-first-impressions-and-fixes">PinePhone keyboard first impressions (and fixes)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Avery: <a href="https://avery.cafe/blog/pinephone-keyboard-first-impressions/">PinePhone Keyboard First Impressions</a>.</li>
<li>Avery: <a href="https://avery.cafe/blog/a-quick-fix-for-the-pinephone-keyboards-top-row/">A Quick Fix for the PinePhone Keyboard's Top Row</a>. <em>It's fine for me on my unit, but if it's you have problems, this might help!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="crazy-attempts-to-run-linux">Crazy attempts to run Linux</h4>
<ul>
<li>Thomas Triadi: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Doy8HzTko">JingOS Arm64 port running on Xiaomi Redmi Note 4x ( xiaomi mido )</a>. <em>A postmarketOS kernel, an Ubuntu rootfs, and JingOS Software. As <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@tuxdevices/107571057163406522">@tuxdevices points out</a>, this is not too fast, but it's still interesting.</em></li>
<li>Janus Cycle: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd1dpUUXrsw">Linux on the Windows 7 Phone</a>. <em>The Fujitsu F-07C phone in this video actually runs Windows 7 Home Premium by default and is about 10 years old, using an Intel Atom Lincroft chip.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-unboxing-and-new-user-thoughts">PinePhone Unboxing and new user thoughts</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nick Shulhin: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv3JGZsMwgY">I bought a PinePhone | Linux Mobile phone</a>. <em>Nice unboxing.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-tutorials">PinePhone tutorials</h4>
<ul>
<li>Avisando: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgAnQKCYxQY">How to flash an OS on the PinePhone without a PC (eMMC or SD)</a>. <em>Step by step. I waguely recall doing a similar video about a year ago.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nick Shulhin: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yZb7g5o97A">I love Ubuntu Touch! | PinePhone | Linux</a>. <em>As I commented: Don't run that ancient stable channel on your PinePhone, try something newer!</em></li>
<li>Linux Lounge: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujJnlsa06ZU">SuperTux on Ubuntu Touch! - Ubuntu Touch Game Review</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="xmpp-fun">XMPP fun</h4>
<ul>
<li>RTP Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://tube.tchncs.de/w/86d8b6df-8000-41f6-a92c-1d8ba2501972">Dino (XMPP): Decentralized End To End Encryption Messenger/+ Chatroom Client (Linux/Pinephone Shown)</a>. <em>Please note: You don't have to run your PinePhone at 1x scaling to use Dino, just build and run the <a href="https://github.com/dino/dino/tree/feature/handy">libhandy-enabled branch</a> - postmarketOS even ships it, and there are relatively easy ways to install it on <a href="https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=dino&s%5B%5D=dino">Mobian</a> and <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/pkgbuilds/-/tree/main/dino-mobile-git">Arch</a>.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="my-eink-runs-arch-btw">My eInk runs Arch, BTW</h4>
<ul>
<li>Danct12: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76uFrG3b-Y0">Phosh UI running on PineNote</a>.</li>
<li>Danct12: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5ynJENo0Y">PineNote booting Arch Linux ARM</a>. <em>For context: The eInk screen of the PineNote <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@PINE64/107566967950259308">is now working with mainline Linux</a>, which is just awesome!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="development-streams">Development Streams</h4>
<ul>
<li>caleb: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MJpcKvIcIs">OnePlus 6 camera shenanigans pt 2 #Linux #postmarketOS</a>.</li>
<li>caleb: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mp3lmVcXjo">OnePlus 6 camera shenanigans pt 3 #Linux #postmarketOS</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="jingos-progress">JingOS progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>JingOS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw0iW3EtE7E">[Preview] JingOS V1.2 ARM - Screen Rotation - Fingerprint Unlock - JingPad A1</a>. <em>Flatpak support is a big deal.</em></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>New dayjob!</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="2"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">2</sup>
<p>The first keyboards shipped without a manual, if you're affected by this, <a href="https://wiki.pine64.org/images/1/12/USER_MANUAL-KEYBOARD-V2-EN-DE-FR-ES.pdf">here's the PDF</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="3"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">3</sup>
<p>I attempted an unboxing live stream, but had serious set-up woes. Firstly, Plasma's Wayland session is apparently not ready for OBS Streaming, and after that I messed with too many settings so that my video looked terribly (which I, due to a small stream preview window, only noticed after ending the second attempt to stream (on Plasma X11)<a href="https://youtu.be/l7kWqNhaEw0">.</a> To complete a full blown train wreck, the Keyboard as the only accessory I tried on camera, did not work with my postmarketOS CE running DanctNIX - luckily it works with the borked Plasma Mobile install on my UBports CE PinePhone. <strong>Update, January 15th, 2022:</strong> After cleaning the pogo pins, it works just fine with DanctNIX on my 3GB PinePhone, too – if only Phosh were better in landscape mode.</p>
</div>
LinBits 77: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 51/52)2021-12-30T18:00:00+00:002021-12-30T18:00:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-77-weekly-linux-phone-news-week51-52/<p><em>The end of the year in Linux Phones, let's have a last LinBits:</em> A new Maui Shell for phones and tablets, postmarketOS v21.12, Mobian on the PinePhone Pro, GTK 4.6.0, an app-list replacement prototype and more!</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Maui Shell, see more below: <a href="https://linmob.net/linbits-77-weekly-linux-phone-news-week51-52/#maui-shell">Text</a> and <a href="https://linmob.net/linbits-77-weekly-linux-phone-news-week51-52/#maui-shell-demo-videos">video</a>.</li>
<li>Biktorgj’s <a href="https://github.com/Biktorgj/pinephone_modem_sdk/releases/tag/0.5.0">open-source modem firmware 0.5.0</a> has been released. fixing some more things.</li>
<li>postmarketOS have released <a href="https://postmarketos.org/blog/2021/12/29/v21.12-release/">their next stable release, v21.12</a>. This is based on Alpine 3.15, delivering Sxmo 1.6, Plasma Mobile Gear 21.12 and Phosh 0.14.0 among other updated packages. Also, TTYescape has been added, which is basically a way to fix things on TTY when your GUI should fail without using SSH or a hardware keyboard. Device support has improved, 9 new devices (5 Snapdragon 410 powered ones) have been added. Sadly, the good old Nokia N900 (2009) was dropped, but that’s just what happens when nobody steps up. If you want to hold on to your N900, <a href="https://leste.maemo.org/Nokia_N900">Maemo Leste still support it</a>. <em>If you have not used postmarketOS in a while (or ever) and have a compatible device, this release might be a good time – stable is less prone to breakages, and with service packs you still get new software every then and now.</em></li>
<li>GTK 4.6.0, a new major GTK 4 release, is out! <em>More dust settling as GNOME 42 is nearing!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>PINE64 are having a <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/12/29/pinephone-community-poll/">PinePhone Community Survey</a>! Make sure to take part!</li>
<li>If you’re waiting for better battery life on your Librem 5, follow <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next/-/merge_requests?label_name%5B%5D=suspend">these issues</a>!</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="software-progress">Software Progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2021/12/twig-24/">#24 Future of Files</a>. <em>I need to try that GTK4 port of Tangram!</em></li>
<li>antoniof: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/antoniof/2021/12/29/the-icon-view-is-dead-long-live-the-icon-view/">The icon view is dead, long live the icon view!</a>.</li>
<li>Claudio Cambra: <a href="https://claudiocambra.com/2021/12/25/happy-holidays-kalendar-v0-4-0-is-our-gift-and-it-brings-new-views-improved-performance-and-many-many-bugfixes-kalendar-devlog-24/">Happy holidays! Kalendar v0.4.0 is our gift, and it brings new views, improved performance, and many bugfixes – Kalendar develop 24</a>.</li>
<li>kver: <a href="https://kver.ca/2021/12/better-adaptive-icons-for-2022/?utm_source=atom_feed">Better Adaptive Icons for 2022</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distro-progress">Distro Progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Mobian blog: <a href="https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2021/12/28/pinephone-pro/">The PinePhone Pro is here (and it runs Mobian!)</a>. <em>Great! The only thing that saddens me a bit that parts of this can be interpreted as further mainlining of the OG PinePhone being quite unlikely.</em></li>
<li>Jozef Mlich: <a href="https://blog.mlich.cz/2021/12/nemomobile-in-december-2021-part-two/">NemoMobile in December/2021 part two</a>. <em>Great progress!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="call-for-testing">Call for Testing</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://ubports.com/de/blog/ubports-blogs-nachrichten-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-21-call-for-testing-3796">Ubuntu Touch OTA-21 Call for Testing</a>. <em>Do help out by trying new stuff early!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="maui-shell">Maui Shell</h4>
<ul>
<li>NitruxOS blog: <a href="https://nxos.org/maui/introducing-maui-shell/">Introducing Maui Shell</a>. <em>This is definitely something to look forward to! I always need to physically interact with UIs to know how much I like them, but this seems really promising!</em>
<ul>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2021/12/maui-shell-is-a-convergent-desktop-for-linux-phones-tablets-laptops-and-desktop-computers.html">Maui Shell is a convergent desktop for Linux phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="backups-something-one-should-always-do-and-if-not-now">Backups: Something one should always do, and if not, now</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/how-to-create-librem-file-backups/">How to Create Librem File Backups</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="hardware-corner">Hardware corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/the-shift-we-need/">A SHIFT in perspective, is this the next step for Linux phones?</a>. <em>Nice article about an interesting phone (I likely won’t buy)!.</em>
<ul>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2021/12/shift6mq-is-a-modular-repairable-and-somewhat-linux-friendly-smartphone-from-germany.html">Shift6mq is a modular, repairable (and somewhat Linux-friendly) smartphone from Germany</a>. <em>Brad’s take.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="other-roundups">Other roundups</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fossphones.com: <a href="https://fossphones.com/1228-news.html">Linux Phone News - December 28th, 2021</a>. <em>Well done!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="off-topic">Off topic</h3>
<ul>
<li>Drew DeVault: <a href="https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html">Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>PineTalk Season 2 Episode 4: <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/12/28/s02e04-pinetalk-behind-the-curtains/">Behind the curtains</a>. <em>Great show!</em></li>
<li>Destination Linux: <a href="https://destinationlinux.org/episode-258/">Linux in 2021: Year In Review! | Destination Linux 258</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="pinephone-emulation-gaming">PinePhone Emulation Gaming</h4>
<ul>
<li>Danct12: <a href="https://tilvids.com/w/k2Lj4GbqRzf8uWykWhu9wx">PICO-8 Emulator on PinePhone (with keyboard case)</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="maui-shell-demo-videos">Maui Shell Demo Videos</h4>
<ul>
<li>Camilo Higuita: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efB9hX_2lZU">Cask - Maui Shell - Phone</a>. <em>I like the concept, but can't full grasp it yet.</em></li>
<li>Camilo Higuita: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxedAIpF3hc">Cask - Maui Shell - Tablet</a></li>
<li>Camilo Higuita: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxklj0OTGto">Cask Tablet mode</a>. <em>On device demos are always nicer, and this looks promising!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch">Ubuntu Touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>Digital Wandering: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMATJ-jpl1Y">Using Android apps on Ubuntu Touch ((WAYDROID))</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="shorts">Shorts</h4>
<h4 id="shorts-1">Shorts</h4>
<ul>
<li>NOT A FBI Honey pot: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0U09AGyPDU">Linux user test the Pinephone's browser privacy.....#shorts</a>. <em>Technically, this is all running with Waydroid, so I am not sure what’s so PinePhone-y about this.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="thank-you">Thank you!</h3>
<p>Thank you for following these updates in 2021, and for all the kind feedback. This is the last update to carry the LinBits name, fear not, these posts are going to continue, just under a different name, without numbering. To celebrate the new name, I’ll most likely take next week off – I do need a break. But don't worry, this roundups are going to be continued.</p>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<ul>
<li>Following last weeks "<a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/issues/10">[Draft/Discussion] Future: Turning this list into LinuxPhoneApps.org</a>", I've built something that you can find at <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.frama.io">https://linuxphoneapps.frama.io</a>. It has multiple issues, e.g. as the app list performs as poorly as ever and there's no real working road formward, but at least this could be a stop-gap solution that allows for more explanatory content and other things this project needs, e.g. it's own blog. <em>Please get in touch if you've got thoughts!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linmobapps-and-linux-phone-apps">LINMOBapps and Linux Phone Apps</h4>
<p>Aside from the website-building above, this week two apps were added:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/gnunet-messenger/messenger-gtk">Messenger-GTK</a>, an <em>(awesome)</em> example GUI application for the GNUnet Messenger service using libgnunetchat, and</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Diego-Ivan/Flowtime">Flowtime</a>, a productivity timer app, similar to pomodoro timers.</li>
</ul>
<p>There's plenty back log to still work through, but I guess I better take it easy.</p>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a> on LINMOBapps this week. And please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
LinBits 76: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 50/51)2021-12-23T21:58:00+00:002021-12-23T21:58:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-76-weekly-linux-phone-news-week50-51/<p><em>Another week passed:</em> A new Squeekboard release, Dual Screen PinePhone thanks to 3D printing, Phosh on Yocto and Genode for PinePhone progress!</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Squeekboard (the Phosh keyboard) has had another <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/merge_requests/513">release</a>, adding layouts, a debug mode and better errors among other things.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>/u/5ILVER: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/PinePhoneOfficial/comments/riryb4/what_if_a_pinephone_was_a_pinephone_keyboard/">What if a pinephone was a pinephone keyboard?</a>. <em>Note: This is just some (albeit impressive) 3D printing work at this point, software still needs to be figured out.</em></li>
<li>/u/TheJackiMonster: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/pinephone/comments/rk5zyb/gnunet_messenger_for_mobile_linux/">GNUnet Messenger for mobile Linux</a>. <em>Great to see progress with this endeavor!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="software-progress">Software progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2021/12/twig-23/">#23 Modernized Settings</a>. <em>My favorite this week is the GTK4/libadwaita implementation of Cawbird.</em></li>
<li>Georges Stavracas: <a href="https://feaneron.com/2021/12/21/gtk4ifying-settings/">GTK4ifying Settings</a>.</li>
<li>Marcus Lundblad: <a href="http://ml4711.blogspot.com/2021/12/christmas-maps.html">Christmas Maps</a>.</li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MT8192-DRM-Linux-5.17">Mediatek MT8192 Kompanio 820 Display Support Staged For Linux 5.17</a>. <em>IIRC, this chip is going to be used in future Chrome OS hardware, in case you where wondering why there's decent Linux progress for a Mediatek SoC.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="apps">Apps</h4>
<ul>
<li>Carl Schwan: <a href="https://carlschwan.eu/2021/12/18/more-kde-apps/">More KDE Apps</a>. <em>Carl's work is impressive!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="interface-overview">Interface overview</h4>
<ul>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/mobile-linux-phone-desktop-environments-de-comparison-interfaces/">Short guide to Linux phone desktops</a>. <em>Nice guide!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="non-linux-pinephone-development">Non-Linux PinePhone development</h4>
<ul>
<li>Genodians: <a href="https://genodians.org/nfeske/2021-12-21-pine-fun-display">Pine Fun – Display</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tongue-in-cheek">Tongue in Cheek</h4>
<ul>
<li>Guido Günther for Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/were-puttin-the-band-back-together/">We’re puttin’ the Band back together</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="plain-marketing-year-in-review">Plain Marketing Year in Review</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: [Year End Update for 2021, Looking Forward to 2022](Year End Update for 2021, Looking Forward to 2022)</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-first-impressions">PinePhone First Impressions</h4>
<ul>
<li>DistroWatch: <a href="https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20211220#pinephone">The PinePhone running Manjaro and Plasma Mobile</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>postmarketOS cast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/12-v2112-TTYescape-Mainline-OP6-SHIFT6mq-Fairphones-pmb/">#12 v21.12, TTYescape, Mainline OP6/SHIFT6mq/Fairphones, pmbootstrap</a>. <em>Another great new episode! Looking forward to 21.12!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="software-progress-1">Software progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tobias Frisch: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKTwIu6Vdw">GNUnet Messenger: December 2021</a>. <em>This is looking promising, although I still need to read up on GNUnet.</em></li>
<li>Avisando: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_RMePIsArA">PinePhone Megapixels Test (end 2021)</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-usability">PinePhone Usability</h4>
<ul>
<li>Arbitrary Tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPHbaJVg-8Q">Pinephone Usability Review Q4 2021</a>. <em>Plasma Mobile is getting there.</em></li>
<li>Twinntech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEGzVzmB1eQ">Pinephone vs Blackberry</a>. <em>If that first take was too positive, this one is less positive. Also, confirmation bias and other fun phenomena at work!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-pro-unboxing-and-first-boot">PinePhone Pro Unboxing and First Boot</h4>
<ul>
<li>Niccolò Ve: <a href="https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/aVQTimWLJdP6K58KYXGLsr">First Look At The Pinephone Successor!</a>. <em>A fun look at Rockchips Android!</em></li>
<li>Iziac's Linux: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nHW--NheTI">Taking a look at the PinePhone Pro</a>. <em>Bad camera, but well informed!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch-plaza">Ubuntu Touch Plaza</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L49H55lnYUw">Ubuntu Touch Q&A 114</a>. <em>The last Q&A of 2021: Featuring MMS improvements, magnetometer progress in 16.04 and more, all going into OTA 21 today; camera permissions following later. Focal gets meta-packages among other things, moving forward. Lomiri Debian packaging is moving forward as well. Also, new apps and some community questions.</em></li>
<li>Crypto Contrarian Concierge: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTRIXfxFxPs">Ubuntu touch smartphone Linux ubports in 2021</a>. <em>Um, yeah.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="virtual-conference-talks">Virtual Conference Talks</h4>
<ul>
<li>Yocto Project: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAUPZhRPHAY">“Phosh: A GNOME based Wayland shell and compositor” by Tim Orling</a>. <em>Great to see Phosh on/in Yocto!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="jingpad-corner">JingPad corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>Niccolò Ve: <a href="https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/9kgKnd8KuLnwnVCHYAwuC5">JingPad Review: The KDE Plasma Fork iPad?</a></li>
<li>JingOS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Wi2jvVwqQ">[Dev News] JingOS ARM 1.1.1 GUI Uninstall and JingPad Android App Support V0.7 Demo</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="shorts">Shorts</h4>
<ul>
<li>Siva Bharani & Friends: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0qb3l_xGlM">Sailfish OS - OnePlus 6 = Good feel #Shorts #OnePlus6 #SailfishOS #OnePlus6in2022</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="missed-your-story">Missed your story?</h3>
<p>If we missed an important bit of news, please get in touch. If you want to make sure we don't miss your app release, distro update, blog post or video, just ping us on social media or send me an email! <em>It's very much appreciated!</em></p>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>Nada.</p>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<ul>
<li>I've started a discussion on LINMOBapps/LinuxPhoneApps called "<a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/issues/10">[Draft/Discussion] Future: Turning this list into LinuxPhoneApps.org</a>". <em>Please join the discussion, every idea is welcome!</em></li>
<li>I have installed <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/107497364791471085">Fedora Silverblue on a ThinkPad Tablet 10 2nd</a>. <em>Sometimes X86_64 is so much easier.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="linmobapps-and-linux-phone-apps">LINMOBapps and Linux Phone Apps</h4>
<p>This week four apps were added:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/whale">Whale</a>, a very simple file explorer using Kirigami;</li>
<li><a href="https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/hash-o-matic">Hash-o-Matic</a>, a simple hash validator allowing to compare two files, generate the checksum of a file and verify if a hash matches a file;</li>
<li><a href="https://invent.kde.org/smigaud/kompass">Kompass</a>, a compass application for plasma mobile, and</li>
<li><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~wisperwind/wifi2qr">Wifi2QR</a>, a tiny GTK utility to display QR codes to easily connect to any Wifi for which a NetworkManager connection profile exists.</li>
</ul>
<p>There's plenty back log to still work through, but the momentum is promising. :D</p>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a> on LINMOBapps this week. And please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
LinBits 75: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 49/50)2021-12-15T21:32:00+00:002021-12-15T21:32:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-75-weekly-linux-phone-news-week49-50/<p><em>7 Days in Linux Phones:</em> PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition will be up for order soon, distro releases and Calls and Chatty developments, the Framebufferphone project, Meltemi (one Nokia Linux project that never saw the light of day) on camera and more!</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<h4 id="apps">Apps</h4>
<ul>
<li>GNOME Calls 42.alpha.0 has been <a href="https://fosstodon.org/web/@devrtz@mastodon.online/107450465206852666">announced</a> and <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/tags/42.alpha.0">released</a>.</li>
<li>Chatty 0.5.0-beta4 has been released, <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/commit/3f9e1af45d1262a7b8d115d103c0e83fb327b6ac">delivering more MMS improvements and fixes</a>. <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/commit/e1502ae56f0a769cad0b71d67944c6ac984b4dbc">Beta 3</a> earlier this past week delivered Matrix and chat dialog fixes. </li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/megapixels/-/commit/c0e76da4b7715e311f0480b121aeb89837e19562">Megapixels 1.4.3 is a bug fix release</a> for our favourite Camera app.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distributions">Distributions</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/ManjaroLinux/status/1471060340905582592">Manjaro Phosh Beta 20 has been released</a>, delivering Chatty 0.5-beta3 and other current software.</li>
<li>Manjaro <a href="https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/plasma-mobile/releases/tag/beta9">Plasma Mobile Beta 9</a> has also been released. <em>There's no changelog, but from trying it briefly it ships all the goodness included in Plasma Mobile Gear 21.12.</em></li>
<li>Arch Linux ARM (Danct12) has seen a <a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20211212">new release on December 12th</a>, delivering Kernel, crust, Plasma Mobile Gear 21.12 and many further updates. </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting:</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you’re in the UK, and want to get Sailfish X on your smartphone, <a href="https://blog.jolla.com/congrats-uk/">Jolla has now got you covered again post-Brexit</a>.</li>
<li>If mainline Linux Smartphones are you’re thing: <a href="https://mainline.space">Martijn Braam build an awesome, simple webpage for you to look the amount of mainline deviations up</a>.</li>
<li>Alternatively, there's also <a href="https://not.mainline.space/">https://not.mainline.space/</a>. <em>It's for fun!</em></li>
<li>If Sxmo (with X or Wayland) still feels to bloated for you, check out ~mil's new project <a href="https://sr.ht/~mil/framebufferphone/">Framebufferphone</a>. It's early days, but definitely an interesting endeavour!</li>
<li>Always wanted to wrist mount your (Pine)Phone? <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5159672">Go for it</a>, or watch a <a href="https://imgur.com/vuXYHdm">video demo</a> first! <em>Great work by 5ilver!</em></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/2021/12/15/december-update-a-year-in-review/">December update: a year in review</a>. <em>A truly big update at the end of the year. Sticking to phones, the PinePhone Explorer Edition is going to be up for orders in a few weeks time, and so is the keyboard after some last fixes. The other back covers are also coming along, so Q1/2022 is going to be filled with accessory releases. But there's more, so do read it!</em>
<ul>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2021/12/399-pinephone-pro-explorer-edition-linux-smartphone-will-go-on-sale-within-weeks.html">$ 399 PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition Linux Smartphone will go on sale within weeks</a>. <em>Brad's take.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="software-progress">Software progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>KDE blog: <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.12.0/">KDE Gear 21.12</a>. <em>Convergence, right? Most of these apps are desktop apps, but some work on Mobile too.</em></li>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2021/12/twig-22/">#22 Spring Time…?</a>. <em>The same caveat applies here. Great that NewsFlash is being ported to libadwaita and GTK4!</em></li>
<li>danigm: <a href="http://danigm.net/loop.html">Loop: A simple music application</a>. <em>I added it to LinuxPhoneApps.org last week, and now it's on Flathub!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="purism-development">Purism Development</h4>
<ul>
<li>Martin Kepplinger for Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-16/">Purism and Linux 5.16</a>. <em>Great stuff coming!</em></li>
<li>Amos B. Batto: <a href="https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2021/12/15/amount-code-librem5/">Amount of code developed by Purism for the Librem 5 phone</a>. <em>A quarter million lines of code. Impressive.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-vs-librem-5">PinePhone vs. Librem 5</h4>
<ul>
<li>Amos B. Batto: <a href="https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2021/12/10/comparing-l5-and-pp/">Comparing the Librem 5 USA and PinePhone Beta</a>. <em>Just a warning: Firefox’s reading mode claims reading this takes 88 to 112 minutes, Miniflux claims it's only 66 minutes, so be sure to have some time on your hands. That said, there's a lot of good info in there. There are a few caveats I have to apply though: Mobian (it appears weird that Amos is still using Bullseye here, BTW!), while a great project with a really helpful wiki, is on the slow side of PinePhone distributions – while this does not make a significant difference in benchmarks, e.g. postmarketOS or Arch IMHO just feel faster.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="mobile-shell-comparison">Mobile shell comparison</h4>
<ul>
<li>/u/The01player: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/rewgqw/small_review_of_a_few_pinephone_uis_phosh_sxmo_kde/">Small review of a few PinePhone UIs (Phosh, Sxmo, KDE)</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="fun-projects">Fun projects</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bacardi55: <a href="https://bacardi55.io/2021/12/11/send-sxmo-notifications-to-a-matrix-room/">Send sxmo notifications to a matrix room</a>. <em>Why, you ask? Why not?</em></li>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2021/12/pineboy-3000-wrist-mount-turns-a-pinephone-into-a-pip-boy.html">PineBoy 3000 wrist mount turns a PinePhone into a Pip-Boy</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="install-tutorial">Install tutorial</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nemo Mobile: <a href="https://nemomobile.net/pages/nemomobile-on-volla-phone/">Nemomobile on Volla Phone</a>. <em>Nice install tutorial!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="for-aspiring-developers">For (aspiring) developers</h4>
<ul>
<li>rabbiticTranslator: <a href="https://rabbitictranslator.com/wordpress/index.php/2021/12/12/long-kfluff-compiling-with-stuff/">Long KFluff – compiling C++/Qt with g++/clang++, QMake, CMake, Kate, KDevelop, QtCreator</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-keyboard-p-boot-landscape-mode">Pinephone Keyboard – p-boot landscape mode</h4>
<ul>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#057">Pinephone Keyboard – p-boot landscape mode</a>. <em>It's coming along! Make sure to watch the video below!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="cereal-serial-access"><del>Cereal</del> Serial Access</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/avoid-boot-loops-try-librem-5-serial/">Avoid Boot Loops, Try Librem 5 Serial</a>. <em>Let's just hope you won't need this.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="blunders">Blunders</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bhushan Shah: <a href="https://blog.bshah.in/2021/12/12/tlp-unintended-side-effects/">TLP has uhttps://puri.sm/posts/avoid-boot-loops-try-librem-5-serial/nintended side effects on Mobile devices</a>. <em>Wow, that’s bad. Luckily <a href="https://mastodon.fam-ribbers.com/@bart/107432738162751052">postmarketOS is not affected</a>.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="history-lesson">History lesson</h4>
<ul>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2021/12/nokia-kataya-and-ion-mini-2-get-the-hands-on-treatment-neer-released-nokia-phones.html">Nokia Kataya and Ion Mini 2 get the hands-on treatment (never-released Nokia phones)</a>. <em>Seeing Meltemi is quite thrilling.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="current-desktop-things">Current Desktop Things</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2021/12/09/what-desktop-linux-needs-to-succeed-in-the-mainstream/">What desktop Linux needs to succeed in the mainstream</a>. <em>Yes, this is not about mobile Linux per se, but do read it anyways.</em> </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="tutorials">Tutorials</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YA-XUalo_I">Avoid Boot Loops, Try Librem 5 Serial</a>. <em>I like this explainer, but I don’t understand posting this from a marketing perspective, as it makes it sound like it's a real possibility that you’ll have to solder on your up to 2000 USD phone to fix boot issues.</em></li>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5R_hKgDFk8">How to use serial console on the PinePhone (Pro)</a>. <em>Turns out: The device built for the community to provide software does better here.</em></li>
<li>Avisando: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUv9lOGaydw">PinePhone - How to install (some) Android applications on Manjaro Phosh (Waydroid)</a>.</li>
<li>Lawnmover Repairs And Stuff: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_32j49NMWY">Getting the PinePhone set up and ready to use!</a> <em>Great channel name!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pine64-community-update-1">PINE64 Community Update</h4>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftk7Wm3-_ug">December update: a year in review</a>. <em>Great job on this video summary once again, PizzaLovingNerd!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="new-hardware-meeting-old-software">New hardware meeting old software</h4>
<ul>
<li>Danct12: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWk2Z2HjT7U">Arch Linux ARM with LXDE on PinePhone Pro</a>. <em>Reminds me a lot of the now long-abandoned AVMulitPhone OS.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="hardware-fun">Hardware fun</h4>
<ul>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2021/12/pineboy-3000-wrist-mount-turns-a-pinephone-into-a-pip-boy.html">PineBoy 3000 wrist mount turns a PinePhone into a Pip-Boy</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="keyboard-fun">Keyboard fun</h4>
<ul>
<li>sadfwesv: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaciUkMrXiY">Linux/p-boot tuning for Pinephone Keyboard (Final Version!?)</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-reviews">PinePhone reviews</h4>
<ul>
<li>Root BSD: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoyuT4Pom2Q">The Pinephone is ready! Well, sort of..</a>.</li>
<li>Idcrafter: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZv9nx4dMXU">Pine64 PinePhone Review</a>. <em>This video is in German, but you will get some good look at some new Plasma Mobile developments, as this shows off current Manjaro Plasma Mobile Dev.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-pro-gaming">PinePhone (Pro) gaming</h4>
<ul>
<li>CalcProgrammer1: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T406a8EQ5T0">PinePhone vs. PinePhone Pro running Star Wars Jedi Academy with OpenJK</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="conference-talks">Conference Talks</h4>
<ul>
<li>OpenAlt: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t7yV83rKI4">Jozef Mlich: Nemomobile</a>. <em>You may have watched this when it was streamed. If you haven't, go watch it now :)</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="sailfish-waydroid">Sailfish + Waydroid</h4>
<ul>
<li>Sailfish official: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61YM66oebLI">Xz2c sailfish os 4.2.0.21 + waydroid</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="shorts">Shorts</h4>
<ul>
<li>Zvost: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lanIcOGzAOY">UBUNTU TOUCH ASUS ZMPM1 #Cusrom #Oprek</a>.</li>
<li>Сергей Чуплыгин: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZktfWGE2gZs">let's indicators fixed</a>. <em>Nemo Mobile!</em></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="missed-your-story">Missed your story?</h1>
<p>If we missed an important bit of news, please get in touch. If you want to make sure we don't miss your app release, distro update, blog post or video, just ping us on social media or send me an email! <em>It's very much appreciated!</em></p>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>Nothing, again. I did not manage to write my "Abandoning the Zola approach to LinuxPhoneApps" post. <em>Maybe I'll manage to do so in the coming week.</em></p>
<h4 id="linmobapps-and-linux-phone-apps">LINMOBapps and Linux Phone Apps</h4>
<p>This week I only added </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/megapixels">Millipixels</a>, a camera application for the Librem 5.</li>
</ul>
<p>Soon, with holidays and all, I hope to increase my activity again.</p>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a> on LINMOBapps this week. And please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
LinBits 72: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 46/47)2021-11-24T21:57:00+00:002021-11-24T21:57:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-72-weekly-linux-phone-news-week46-47/<p>This week in Linux Phones: Android 12 coming to PinePhone, NemoMobile 0.7, Ubuntu Touch OTA 20, postmarketOS on the Pocket P.C., and more!</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-20-release-3790#">Ubuntu Touch OTA-20 Release</a>.</li>
<li>Danct12 has <a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20211121">released new builds</a> of his Arch Linux ARM based distribution, including a build for the PinePhone Pro, bringing all the software up to the latest version. </li>
<li>NemoMobile have released a new <a href="https://img.nemomobile.net/2021.10/Manjaro-ARM-nemomobile-pinephone-0.7.img.xz">image</a>, dubbed 0.7. <em>While it's not ready for daily use yet, they've made major progress! <a href="https://liberapay.com/NemoMobile/">Do support them!</a></em></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/GloDroid/glodroid_manifest/releases">GloDroid v. 0.7.0</a> brings Android 12 to the PinePhone!</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>Martijn Braam has brought <a href="https://fosstodon.org/web/@martijnbraam/107327809947282123">postmarketOS with Phosh to the Pocket P.C.</a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/web/@martijnbraam/107328327046742273">and also Plasma Mobile and GNOME 41</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="software-progress">Software progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2021/11/twig-19/">#19 Updated Calculations</a>.</li>
<li>tchx84: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2021/11/20/flatseal-1-7-5/">Flatseal 1.7.5</a>. <em>Nice update!</em></li>
<li>Janet Blackquill: <a href="https://blog.blackquill.cc/porting-tok-to-not-linux-the-journey-of-incessant-failure">Porting Tok To Not Linux: The Journey Of Incessant Failure</a>. <em>Not about mobile Linux specifically, but still fun.</em></li>
<li>GabMus: <a href="https://gabmus.org/posts/gtk4_libadwaita_and_the_new_feeds/">Gtk4, LibAdwaita and the new Feeds</a>. <em>Great app, great post!</em></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Box86-0.2.4-Box64-0.1.6">Box86 + Box64 Updated For Running Linux x86/x86_64 Programs On Other Architectures</a>. <em>While Box* is something you only really need for proprietary stuff, it's awesome to see it making progress.</em></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Alpine-Linux-3.15">Alpine Linux 3.15 Released - Builds Off Linux 5.15, Drops MIPS64, SimpleDRM For FB</a>. <em>Why is this relevant? Well, the next postmarketOS stable is going to be based in this!</em></li>
<li>itfoss: <a href="https://www.itsfoss.net/distribution-kit-for-mobile-phones-nemomobile-0-7-released/">Distribution kit for mobile phones NemoMobile 0.7 Released</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="librem-5-corner">Librem 5 Corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/true-convergence-is-here-pureos-10-is-released-for-all-librem-products/">True Convergence is Here: PureOS 10 is Released for all Librem Products</a>.</li>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2021/11/purisms-librem-5-linux-smartphone-costs-1199-after-the-latest-price-hike.html">Purism’s Librem 5 Linux smartphone costs $1199 after the latest price hike</a>. <em>While I get this from a accrued costs perspective, it surely won't help with sales.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-pro-development">PinePhone Pro Development</h4>
<ul>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#055">Pinephone Pro LCD panel</a>. </li>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#056">Pinephone Pro – audio and modem power up support</a>. <em>Nice progress reports by Megi!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="hardware-risc-v-on-phones-and-tiny-intel-convertibles">Hardware: RISC-V on Phones and Tiny Intel Convertibles</h4>
<ul>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/sipeed-rv64-first-risc-v-rv64-phone-linux-2022-2023/">The world's first RISC-V phone might be just behind the corner</a>. <em>I don't want to be negative, but I doubt this RISC-V phone is something you are actually going to want to use if you're not totally psyched by everything RISC-V.</em></li>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2021/11/running-linux-on-the-gpd-pocket-3-mini-laptop.html">Running Linux on the GPD Pocket 3 mini-laptop</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tutorials">Tutorials</h4>
<ul>
<li>Samuel Norbury: <a href="http://whatshouldyoueat.com/2021/11/21/multi-wm-linux-phone/">A usability hack for convergent devices</a>. <em>This is something I thought about for a long time, and Samuel just did it. Awesome!</em></li>
<li>Neil Brown: <a href="https://neilzone.co.uk/2021/11/installing-mobian-with-full-disk-encryption-on-pinephone">Installing Mobian with full disk encryption on PinePhone</a>. </li>
<li>Han Young: <a href="https://www.hanyoung.uk/blog/cross-compile-to-pinephone-with-clang/">Cross Compile to PinePhone with Clang</a>. <em>Great tutorial!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ethical-tech-giving">Ethical Tech Giving</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tux Phones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/freedom-and-phone-advice/">Freedom and phone advice</a>. <em>Great post by Martijn!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>PEBKAC: <a href="https://pebkac.show/2021/11/15/pebkac-s01e04-mid-november-updates/">PEBKAC S01E04 Mid November Updates!</a> <em>Well done, and thanks for the mention! (I felt that I got nothing done lately, this nugded me to revisit that assumption).</em><sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup></li>
<li>PineTalk: <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/11/23/s2e03-pinetalk-performance-uis-the-keyboard-oh-my/">S2E03: PineTalk - Performance, UIs, the Keyboard, Oh My!</a> <em>Come for the news, stay for a great discussion! I love how Brian and Justin are doing this now!</em></li>
<li>postmarketOS Cast: <a href="https://cast.postmarketos.org/">#11 INTERVIEW: kop316 (of mmsd-tng Fame)</a>. <em>Great interview!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="learn-something">Learn something</h4>
<ul>
<li>Avisando: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EK7Ua2efbE">PinePhone "Desktop Mode" Manjaro Phosh (2021)</a>. <em>I love that voice!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ubuntu-touch-corner">Ubuntu Touch Corner</h4>
<ul>
<li>UBports: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWHX4Twu34">OTA-20 Released | Ubuntu Touch Q&A 112</a>. <em>After taking a break, Dalton and Marius are back to talk about OTA 20, Clickable 7 (the tool to build Ubuntu Touch apps), new apps, 20.04 progress, how they need help with device support and more.</em> </li>
<li>Review for Nerds: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rQMMIvuDYA">One Month using a Linux SmartPhone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="android-12-on-pinephone">Android 12 on PinePhone</h4>
<ul>
<li>蕭博文powen: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnrZSnTBK7o">Android 12 on pinephone,flash with Glodroid 0.7.0(still in development)</a>. <em>Nice!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="jingpad">JingPad</h4>
<ul>
<li>Niccolò Ve: <a href="https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/aeuenwrcarabMZnJ1eSiwn">I Brought The JingPad To Venice! And The PineBook as well! Oh, right, my girlfriend too</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="nemo-mobile-shorts">Nemo Mobile Shorts</h4>
<ul>
<li>Сергей Чуплыгин: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HegimsdVw_o">Voicecall work on Nemomobile PinePhone</a>. <em>Awesome!</em></li>
<li>Jozef Mlich: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK_99lds7GA">glacier-weather demo</a>. <em>Nice app!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>Nothing.</p>
<h4 id="random">Random</h4>
<p>I've played with Sxmo 1.6.0 and Nemo Mobile 0.7 this week, and what shall I say: Both are really smooth. Do give them a try.</p>
<h4 id="linmobapps-and-linux-phone-apps">LINMOBapps and Linux Phone Apps</h4>
<p>This week I added </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/elescoute/spacelaunch">Space Launch</a>, a GTK/libhandy app that tracks rocket launches. </li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a> on LINMOBapps this week. And please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
<p>This should have been included last week (it is now), but since it was added so late it's in here, two. Just subscribe to these podcasts so that you don't have to rely on me!</p>
</div>
LinBits 71: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 45/46)2021-11-17T21:34:00+00:002021-11-17T21:34:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-71-weekly-linux-phone-news-week45-46/<p><em>What's new with Linux on Mobile?</em> Sxmo goes Wayland with 1.6.0, a Chatty beta delivers MMS, Megapixels adds a flash and lots of tablet stuff!<span id="continue-reading"></span> <em>Commentary in italics.</em> </p>
<h3 id="software-releases">Software releases</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/megapixels/-/tags">Megapixels 1.4.0 and two subsequent bug fix releases</a> have been released. New features include LED and Display-based flash support, and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/piggz/harbour-amazfish/releases/tag/2.0.3">Amazfish 2.0.3 has been tagged</a>, delivering <a href="https://twitter.com/adampigg/status/1460735342156423173">support for the new InfiniTime motion service</a>, so you can have a look at the steps you walk on your Linux Phone (currently SailfishOS only).</li>
<li><a href="https://lists.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-announce/%3C31IGOQIT71NT5.2LYA6VY1SCLPK%40stacyharper.net%3E">Sxmo 1.6.0 is out</a>, delivering Wayland!</li>
<li>Chatty 0.5.0~beta, the next pre-release of Phosh's default messaging app, <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/tags/v0.5.0_beta">has been tagged</a>, delivering MMS functionality! There's much more, make sure to go and read the <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/commit/7095860abce9c8c7787515cdca950ccb656a32f1">changelog</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>Work on gestures for Phosh <a href="https://fosstodon.org/web/@agx@librem.one/107270696986030097">is happening</a>.</li>
<li>Signal users, rejoice! One more option for using <a href="https://teddit.net/r/PINE64official/comments/qthw58/looking_for_some_basic_feedback_on_native_signal/">Signal on Linux Phones</a>!</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="pinephone-hardware-mods">PinePhone Hardware mods</h4>
<ul>
<li>Izzo: <a href="https://izzo.pro/pinephone-vccq-mod/">Improve your PinePhone eMMC speed</a>. <em>Great article! I am not sure whether I'll attempt the hardware mod any time soon, but it is awesome to have the option!</em></li>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-storage-performance-pinecil-vccq-emmc-mod/">Doubling the PinePhone storage perf with a soldering iron and a steady hand</a>. <em>Same topic, great explainer of the hardware mod by Caleb!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="mainline-ports">Mainline ports</h4>
<ul>
<li>TuxPhones: <a href="https://tuxphones.com/xiaomi-redmi-note-7-linux-phone-mainline-kernel/">Another Xiaomi device platform is getting Linux support</a>. <em>Great work by Danct12!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="downstream-ports">Downstream ports</h4>
<ul>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2021/11/new-software-for-old-phones-pixel-2-gets-android-12-and-ubuntu-touch-ports.html">New software for old phones: Pixel 2 gets Ubuntu Touch and unofficial Android 12 ports</a>. <em>Great to see the Pixel 2 seeing some love after being abandoned by Google!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tablet-hardware">Tablet Hardware</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jeff Geerling: <a href="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/cutiepi-raspberry-pi-cm4-linux-tablet">CutiePi - a Raspberry Pi CM4 Linux Tablet</a>. <em>Sadly performance (in benchmarks, less in "real use", according to the video review) seems to suffer from thermal problems – maybe a nominally slower, compatible SoM like the <a href="https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/SOQuartz">PINE64 SOQuartz</a> or the <a href="https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock3/CM3">Radxa CM3</a> could actually have better sustained performance in this form factor. (Please note, this won't be plug and play and just working. You'll need some advanced kernel compilation if not hacking skills at least to make this hypothetical a reality.)</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="armv9-bring-up">ARMv9 Bring-Up</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Cortex-A710-GCC-12-Lands">Arm Cortex-A710 Support Merged Into GCC 12 Compiler</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-pro-bring-up">PinePhone Pro Bring-Up</h4>
<ul>
<li>xnux.eu log: <a href="https://xnux.eu/log/#054">A bunch of mostly Pinephone Pro news</a>. <em>Great progress by Megi!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="armv7-wind-down">ARMv7 Wind-Down</h4>
<ul>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-37-Drop-ARMv7">Fedora Drafts Plans For Retiring ARMv7 Support</a>. <em>ARMv7 devices are still usable for many tasks, so this is sad to see, but it's also understandable.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="software-progress">Software Progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2021/11/twig-18/">#18 Delicious toasts</a>.</li>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2021/11/12/this-week-in-kde-primarily-centered-hamburgers/">This week in KDE: Primarily Centered Hamburgers</a>.</li>
<li>Nate Graham: <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2021/11/13/be-flexible-to-win-big/">Be flexible to win big</a>. <em>Plasma running on more devices as a default is a definitive success!</em></li>
<li>Claudio Cambra: <a href="https://claudiocambra.com/2021/11/13/kalendar-v0-2-0-is-out-now-adding-drag-and-drop-improved-calendar-management-and-lots-of-bug-fixes-kalendar-devlog-22/">Kalendar v0.2.0 is out now, adding drag-and-drop, improved calendar management, and lots of bug-fixes — Kalendar devlog 22</a>. <em>Great progress!</em></li>
<li>Robert: <a href="http://curiositydrivendevelopment.blogspot.com/2021/11/calculator-and-gtk4.html">Calculator and GTK4</a>. <em>I hope mobile support is going to stay.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="librem-5-with-pureos-byzantium">Librem 5 with PureOS Byzantium</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/november-librem-5-update-byzantium-released/">November Librem 5 update: Byzantium Released</a>. <em>To be fair: Byzantium is massively better than Amber, and Purism keeps doing great work to make Mobile Linux a lot more viable!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pine64-community-update">PINE64 Community Update</h4>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2021/11/15/november-update-first-impressions/">November update: first impressions</a>. <em>Nice update! Make sure to read Lukasz's PinePhone Pro impressions. I am looking forward to being able to order the keyboard and the PinePhone Pro!</em>
<ul>
<li>xda-developers: <a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/pinephones-official-keyboard-add-on-will-turn-it-into-a-tiny-linux-pc/">PinePhone’s official keyboard add-on will turn it into a tiny Linux PC</a>. <em>True.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="more-mobile-linux-round-ups">More Mobile Linux Round-Ups</h4>
<ul>
<li>Liliputing: <a href="https://liliputing.com/2021/11/linux-smartphone-news-roundup-pinephone-keyboard-pinephone-emmc-speed-hack-and-more.html">Linux Smartphone News Roundup: PinePhone Keyboard, PinePhone eMMC speed hack, and more</a>. <em>Great roundup! Thanks for the shoutout!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>PEBKAC: <a href="https://pebkac.show/2021/11/15/pebkac-s01e04-mid-november-updates/">PEBKAC S01E04 Mid November Updates!</a>. <em>Well done, and thanks for the mention! (I felt that I got nothing done lately, this nugded me to revisit that assumption).</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="pinephone-pro">PinePhone Pro</h4>
<ul>
<li>Manjaro Linux: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpxzqz-WqhE">Pinephone vs. Pinephone-Pro - Benchmarking Apps</a>.</li>
<li>Danct12: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obnvV30rft4">PinePhone Pro Developer Edition Unboxing</a>.</li>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46khsEjkqPU">PinePhone Pro First Impressions</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-hardware-mod">PinePhone Hardware mod</h4>
<ul>
<li>_symmetrist_: <a href="https://twitter.com/_symmetrist_/status/1459589852266176514">PinePhone Vccq mod</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-commentary">PinePhone Commentary</h4>
<ul>
<li>Linux Lounge: <a href="https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/410c7a5d-221e-4f6f-a841-c285ee0d5162">The PinePhone Isn’t a Consumer Ready Device Yet (And That’s Okay!)</a> <em>It's okay, indeed!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pinephone-gaming">PinePhone Gaming</h4>
<ul>
<li>PanzerSajt: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1y1O-EoW_k">Minecraft Java running on PinePhone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tablet-hardware-review">Tablet Hardware Review</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jeff Geerling: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ZQ9LRdXSk">Finally! A Raspberry Pi Linux Tablet that works!</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="jingpad-corner-see-also-shorts">JingPad corner (see also shorts)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Niccolò Ve: <a href="https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/pAzho3YM7xTVM1mzGpCkVe">JingPad A1 Unboxing!</a>.</li>
<li>The Linux Experiment: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj3QueLJfSY">JingPad Roadmap and updates, installing other distros, open source status, pen latency, and more</a>.</li>
<li>LearnLInuxTV: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiSSAaLSwhA">The JingPad A1 Linux Tablet, Full Review!</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="openalt-conference">OpenAlt Conference<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup></h4>
<ul>
<li>OpenAlt: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry84A-hTXRw&t=23920s">Jozef Mlich: Nemomobile</a>.</li>
<li>OpenAlt: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry84A-hTXRw&t=16760s">Martin Botka, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno, Marijn Suijten: SoMainline's 2021: Rowing into the upstream</a>. <em>Same video, different time stamp!</em></li>
<li>OpenAlt: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z878W0YGd7w&t=23350s">Elzbieta Godlewska: Learn with FOSS communities or how to turn a passion into a profession</a>. <em>Not mobile specific, but sometimes we need to go broader, right?!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pine64-community-update-1">PINE64 Community Update</h4>
<ul>
<li>PINE64: <a href="https://odysee.com/@PINE64:a/november-update-first-impressions:b">November Update: First Impressions</a>. <em>Great video by PizzaLovingNerd!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="pine64-community-update-commentary">PINE64 Community Update Commentary</h4>
<ul>
<li>Twinntech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0JbvtZl1i8">November review Pinephone status.</a> <em>Is it unfair to call him a single-issue guy? Nice cat though!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="byzantine-marketing">Byzantine Marketing ;-)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUm22aFJ5uo">November Librem 5 update: Byzantium Released</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="android-on-pinephone">Android on PinePhone</h4>
<ul>
<li>蕭博文powen: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5j9kZ-gE4U">Android 11 on my pinephone</a>.</li>
<li>蕭博文powen: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDY988kbdQU">Full progress of flashing android 11 to pinephone with MacOS using Glodroid</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="nemo-mobile-shorts-shorts">Nemo Mobile Shorts Shorts</h4>
<ul>
<li>Сергей Чуплыгин: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYacHR0Z1AI">Pure Maps on nemomobile</a>.</li>
<li>Сергей Чуплыгин: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypxTJtwqHqo">Glacier Package manager demo</a>.</li>
<li>Сергей Чуплыгин: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6T9YrD4YP4">polkit+package manager</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="regular-shorts">Regular Shorts</h4>
<ul>
<li>PizzaLovingNerd: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiVokRn8fxc">Spot - GNOME's Spotify App #shorts #linux</a></li>
<li>NOT A FBI Honey pot: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FrW3J0IK9M">Linux user....kinda gets android to work on pinephone......</a></li>
<li>Massimo Antonio Carofano: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsV91LsXJbk">SimCity BuildIT Android app native running on JingPad A1 with JingOS ARM (Ubuntu Based)!!</a>.</li>
<li>Massimo Antonio Carofano: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkTUE06N0po">Google Earth for Android running on JingPad A1 with JingOS ARM (Ubuntu Based)</a>.</li>
<li>J Collins: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH9TnZJPINs">Using 5G on my Jingpad A1 wifi only model.</a>,</li>
<li>Baonks81: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN3DFGGwsx8">pmOS onboard login screen</a>. <em>Unless I am completely mistaken, this is a Nexus 7 (2012).</em></li>
<li>Baonks81: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKZG655V5PQ">Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri Nexus 7 2012 wifi rev.E1565 kernel-5.15.0-rc4</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>Nothing.</p>
<h4 id="linmobapps-and-linux-phone-apps">LINMOBapps and Linux Phone Apps</h4>
<p>While LinuxPhoneApps "alpha" activity is still at zero, classic "LINMOBapps" (which you can also find by going to <a href="https://linuxphoneapps.org">LinuxPhoneApps.org</a>), saw a few changes. BigB added one app,</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://itmodulo.eu/git/LinuxOnMobile/Sonically">Sonically</a>, a native GTK3 client implementing the subsonic API for audio streaming. <em>Thanks for the Merge Request, BigB!</em>
Also, I added </li>
<li><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~nicohman/signal-rs/">signal-rs</a>, a WIP Rust/QML signal client. </li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a> on LINMOBapps this week. And please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
<p>This section is a week late, sorry! I only included English talks.</p>
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LinBits 65: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 39/40)2021-10-06T21:20:00+00:002021-10-06T21:20:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits-65-weekly-linux-phone-news-week39-40/<p><em>This week in Linux Phones:</em> Nemo Mobile and Mobile NixOS progress reports, updates on Kalendar, KQuickImageEdior and some GNOME apps, a guide to PinePhone Privacy, yet more cross-compilation, a cool new podcast and many PinePhone videos! <span id="continue-reading"></span> <em>Commentary in italics.</em> </p>
<h3 id="worth-noting">Worth noting</h3>
<ul>
<li>The newly announced FairPhone 4 can apparently already boot <a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_4_(fairphone-fp4)">postmarketOS</a>! </li>
<li>Purism sent another email to Librem 5 backers (including me), telling buyers to <a href="https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-backlog-delivery-update-sep-oct-2021/14897">expect further delays</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<h4 id="software-progress">Software progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Qt blog: <a href="https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.2-lts-released">Qt 6.2 LTS Released</a>. <em>Qt 6 is getting more and more developed, which matters as eventually KDE will do something cool with it!</em></li>
<li>This Week in GNOME: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2021/10/twig-12/">#12 Inspecting Libadwaita</a>.</li>
<li>Alexander Mikhaylenko: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/10/04/dark-style-preference/">Dark Style Preference</a>.</li>
<li>Volker Krause: <a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2021/10/twig-12/">August/September in KDE Itinerary</a>. <em>Walking directions are a great new feature!</em></li>
<li>Carl Schwan: <a href="https://carlschwan.eu/2021/10/02/kquickimageeditor-0.2-released/">KQuickImageEditor 0.2 released</a>.</li>
<li>Claudio Cambra: <a href="https://claudiocambra.com/2021/10/03/massive-new-features-a-new-week-view-kcommandbar-and-more-kalendar-devlog-17/">Massive new features: a new week view, KCommandBar, and more — Kalendar devlog 17</a>.</li>
<li>Nemo Mobile: <a href="http://nemomobile.net/pages/nemomobile-in-october-2021/">Nemomobile in October/2021</a>. <em>Great progress!</em></li>
<li>Christian F. K. Schaller: <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/10/01/pipewire-and-fixing-the-linux-video-capture-stack/">PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack</a>. <em>Pipewire is not just important for phones.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="distro-progress">Distro progress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Mobile NixOS: <a href="https://mobile.nixos.org/news/2021-10-05-august-september-round-up.html">August and September 2021 round-up</a>. <em>Plasma landing, nice!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="hardware-repair">Hardware repair</h4>
<ul>
<li>haskal: <a href="https://write.lain.faith/~/Haskal/repairing-the-pinephone/">repairing the pinephone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tutorials">Tutorials</h4>
<ul>
<li>Han Young: <a href="https://www.hanyoung.uk/blog/cross-compile-to-pinephone-part-four/">Cross Compile to PinePhone Part Four</a>.</li>
<li>RTP: <a href="https://politictech.wordpress.com/2021/09/30/top-pinephone-privacy-tips-videos-writeup/">PinePhone Privacy Ideas/Tips [Videos/Writeup]</a>. <em>Great! While we've linked many of his videos in the past, having them curated in an explanatory blog post makes them even better!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="off-topic-but-a-fun-read">Off topic, but a fun read</h4>
<ul>
<li>Amos B. Batto: <a href="https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2021/10/06/huawei-smartphone/">What can be learned by taking apart a Huawei smartphone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="competition">Competition</h4>
<ul>
<li>fossphones.com: <a href="https://fossphones.com/10-04.html">Linux Phone News - October 4, 2021</a>. <em>Nice roundup!</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-listening">Worth listening</h3>
<ul>
<li>PEBKAC.show: <a href="https://pebkac.show/web/2021/10/01/the-pebkac-show/">S01 E01: Mobian Project Interview</a>. <em>Great first episode! PEBKAC BTW is short for "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair".</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<h4 id="librem-5">Librem 5</h4>
<ul>
<li>PizzaLovingNerd: <a href="https://tilvids.com/w/fcdFrjG48qmB8TLFjit6o1">It's Finally Here! (Librem 5 Unboxing/Review)</a>. <em>Nice video! Minor nitpick: IMHO, the biggest problem with Librem 5 right now is not price, but the uncertainty to when it is going to be delivered.</em> </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="current-manjaro">Current Manjaro</h4>
<ul>
<li>TechHut: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDmY3xhZIX0">Manjaro PHOSH on the PinePhone - Beta 16</a>. <em>Good review!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="postmarketos-ports">postmarketOS ports</h4>
<ul>
<li>Baonks 81: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_QlNfT6G60">postmarketOS Phosh on Xiaomi Redmi 2 wt86047_wt88047 kernel 5.14</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="tutorial">Tutorial</h4>
<ul>
<li>(RTP) Privacy & Tech Tips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ-jGKWQKJY">Pinephone Privacy Tips</a>. <em>Excellent!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="conference-talks">Conference talks</h4>
<ul>
<li>Guido Günther: <a href="https://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2021/MiniDebConf-Regensburg/debian-on-a-smart-phone-are-you-serious.lq.webm">Debian on a smart phone, are you serious?</a>. <em>Great talk, <a href="https://social.librem.one/@agx/107050012218380100">this toot</a> has a link to the slides!</em></li>
<li>Fedora Project: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuEL_GJ1Y2s">The PinePhone Hardware, Software and Next Steps</a>. </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="shorts">Shorts</h4>
<ul>
<li>NOT A FBI Honey pot: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkAZlR0Wcbk">is this the best pinephone distro? with Htop pre-installed! #pinephone #shorts #linux</a>, <em>Maemo Leste, ladies and gentlemen!</em></li>
<li>Requested everywhere: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOY-IJSLT3Q">Custom Ringtone on PinePhone</a>.</li>
<li>Drew Naylor 2: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEua4VDVxM8"></a>. </li>
<li>Scientific perspective: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuanNIzLwdE">Dual boot Ubuntu touch + any android distro | POCO F1 #shorts</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<h4 id="content">Content</h4>
<p>I played with Swmo (Sxmo, but Wayland), and wrote a <a href="https://linmob.net/playing-with-swmo/">little blog post about it</a> - <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/107051189274623959">right on the PinePhone running Swmo</a>.</p>
<p>I have also started to write a post detailing my current Linux Phone setup, as my <a href="https://linmob.net/my-setup-with-danctnix-archlinuxarm/">post from January</a> is slightly outdated. I hope to be done with it before the next weekly update.</p>
<h4 id="linmobapps">LINMOBapps</h4>
<p>I did next to nothing here (I wasted some time unsuccessfully trying to build one app), but at least <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/merge_requests/16">accepted a merge request</a>. Thank you so much, Ferenc!
<a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/commits/master">Read here what (else) happened</a> on LINMOBapps this week. And please <a href="https://framagit.org/linmobapps/linmobapps.frama.io/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">do contribute!</a></p>
<h4 id="linux-phone-apps">Linux Phone Apps</h4>
<p>Still only thoughts, the planned "let's do something on saturday" action was cancelled due to not feeling too well. </p>
GNOME Software 41 will work just fine on mobile2021-09-12T15:30:18+00:002021-09-12T15:30:18+00:00https://linmob.net/gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/<p>With GNOME 41 being released soon, one important app is now working fine on Mobile. But the new features don't stop there, making it worth a closer look.<span id="continue-reading"></span></p>
<h3 id="what-is-gnome-software">What is GNOME Software?</h3>
<p>GNOME Software is basically the "App Store" for GNOME (and thus Phosh) operating systems. For KDE Users: This is basically the KDE Discover of GNOME. Previously it has been available on most Phosh-running distributions. It can update your distributions, you can use it to install Flatpaks and more.</p>
<h3 id="what-s-the-current-state">What's the current state?</h3>
<p>Some distributions just included the not-properly-scaling upstream GNOME Software, sometimes mitigated and made somewhat usable via <code>scale-to-fit</code> while other distributions shipped <a href="https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/pureos-store">Purism's patches</a> to GNOME Software that Purism did for their PureOS store.</p>
<h3 id="what-s-changing-with-gnome-software-41">What's changing with GNOME Software 41?</h3>
<p>It now works just fine on phones like the PinePhone or the Librem 5, at least that's what I see when I run PureOS Store on my Librem 5 running PureOS Byzantium and my PinePhone running the AUR package <code>gnome-software-git</code> on <a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/">Arch Linux ARM</a>. Let's just have a few screenshots:</p>
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/01_start-screen.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/01_start-screen.f134f69426a4e853.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/02_start-scren-lower.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/02_start-scren-lower.beeda46774fc1cac.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/03_app-listing.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/03_app-listing.4b19e36650a119a9.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/04_app-listing-lower.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/04_app-listing-lower.14755366fc4d6f01.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/05_app-listing-bottom.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/05_app-listing-bottom.8b72a07a8331ec55.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/06_app-listing-form-factor.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/06_app-listing-form-factor.817c1398f99ea5fc.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/07_app-listing-safety.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/07_app-listing-safety.b90cc5f8d4f00431.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/08_installed-apps.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/08_installed-apps.0b0b9f4a32ff8c9e.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/09_updates.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/09_updates.80de797d548c54f8.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/10_update_preferences.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/10_update_preferences.57d5f35e4eeb5c82.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/11_preferences-repositories.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/11_preferences-repositories.23b87fe319251437.png" />
<img style="margin: 10px;" alt="/2021-09-12-gnome-software-41-will-be-fine-on-mobile/12_version.png" src="https://linmob.net/processed_images/12_version.2cd49fe253603995.png" />
<p>As you can see, GNOME Software can now provide a lot more context about apps. If you want to read up on the thoughts that led to this design, make sure to read Tobias Bernard's blog post titled <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2021/09/09/software-41-context-tiles/">"Software 41: Context Tiles"</a>.</p>
<h3 id="what-remains-to-be-done">What remains to be done?</h3>
<p>As you can see on my screenshots, even apps that are known to work fine on the mobile form factor don't necessarily show up as running fine. This is an application metadata issue, which is going to have to be fixed by each and every upstream project. Thankfully there's a list at the bottom of the compatibility listing that <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/wikis/software-metadata#user-content-how-to-add-missing-hardware-information">links to this page detailing what additional metadata will have to be added to appstream xml files</a> – which hopefully will be further augmented, as it's currently just a link to <a href="https://tecnocode.co.uk/2021/07/12/add-metadata-to-your-app-to-say-what-inputs-and-display-sizes-it-supports/">this blog post</a> we had in LinBits a while ago. Apparently, changes will also have happen over at <a href="https://github.com/flathub/flathub/issues/2439">Flathub, which currently omits this support data</a>. </p>
<p>If you are an app developer (or someone that wants to help out your favourite app with proper metadata, as it's important but not necessarily fun to add), make sure to also read this <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2021/09/07/ready-for-software-41/">blog post by Tobias Bernard about getting apps ready for GNOME Software 41</a>.</p>
<p>Assuming the changes at Flathub are going to happen, we can only hope that upstream projects are going to add this metadata – at least this is not <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/specify-form-factors-in-your-librem-5-apps/">vendor specific custom metadata</a>, but part of the <a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-requires-recommends">official appstream specification</a>.</p>
<h3 id="will-this-obsolete-linuxphoneapps-org-linmobapps">Will this obsolete LinuxPhoneApps.org/LINMOBapps?</h3>
<p>While I have to admit that due to the complexity of the task, the complications occuring and my general lack of free time to work on these projects I would love to say "yes, this obsoletes my effort and I can rest now", it likely does not. Not every new developer will ever add all the necessary metadata, and knowing the Gaussian curve, some will refuse to accept merge request adding the data. BTW: If you want to help out linuxphoneapps.org, e.g. by coming up with a way to import upstream app metadata, please get in touch!</p>