LINux on MOBile - SocialLINMOB.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.Zola2020-09-20T13:10:00+00:00https://linmob.net/tags/social/feed.xmlLinBits 11: Weekly PinePhone news / media roundup (week 38)2020-09-20T13:10:00+00:002020-09-20T13:10:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits11-weekly-pinephone-news-week38/<p><em>It's sunday. Now what happened since last sunday?</em></p>
<p>Manjaro Lomiri Alpha 1, GloDroid 0.4.0, more camera improvements and a ton of videos. <em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="software-releases-and-improvements">Software releases and improvements</h3>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/GloDroid/glodroid_manifest/releases/tag/v0.4.0">GloDroid 0.4.0</a>. The Android port is progressing. <em>They have also released an <a href="https://github.com/GloDroid/glodroid_manifest/issues/58#issuecomment-670354906">early build of Android 11</a>, and <a href="https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10613&pid=78278#pid78278">bauner in the Pine64 forums</a> is working on enabling GSM and GPS.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels">megapixels</a> has seen a lot of progress and now has a really fast viewfinder, takes pictures at 5 megapixels, rendering the PinePhone back camera a lot more usable. <em>The front camera also works in postmarketOS now, but it is very dim currently and only usable in daylight.</em></li>
<li>Manjaro <a href="https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-alpha1-with-lomiri-pinephone/26454">Lomiri Alpha 1</a> has been released. <em>I have made a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOinLw0xP3c">little video</a> demoing the release.</em> <sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup></li>
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<h3 id="other-hardware">Other Hardware <sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup></h3>
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<li>bunnie:studios, run by the famous bunny who created awesome hardware like the open source <a href="https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3657">Novena laptop</a>, have announced a new <a href="https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5921">handheld device</a>. It's called "Precursor" and is going to be sold on <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor">Crowdsupply</a>. <em>If you are looking for a faster device than the PinePhone, this FPGA-based device likely is not for you. But it should be more secure.</em></li>
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<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
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<li>CNX-Software: <a href="https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/16/pinephone-multiboot-image-boots-13-different-linux-distributions/">Pinephone Multiboot Image Boots 13 Different Linux Distributions</a>. <em>This image is really something. I managed to break it though...</em></li>
<li>Pine64: <a href="https://www.pine64.org/2020/09/15/september-update-let-it-sink-in/">September Update: Let it sink in…</a>. _</li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/adventures-of-porting-postmarketos-to-the-librem-5/">Adventures of porting postmarketOS to the Librem 5</a>. <em>A great read!</em></li>
<li>Koen Vervloesem: <a href="https://koen.vervloesem.eu/blog/exploring-the-pinephone-with-the-multi-distro-demo-image/">Exploring the PinePhone with the multi-distro demo image</a>. <em>This is a little review of Megi's p_boot image, which takes a very different perspective than I would have taken: E.g. I like it when there is not too much software pre-installed, because I know how to install software on pretty much every one of these distros. PSA: Don't report bugs experienced with this image to the respective distro maintainers, as this image uses a very different kernel. Also: Screenshots on Phosh based distros can be created via a little command line utilty called 'grim'.</em> <sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup></li>
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<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
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<li>Matthew Higgins: <a href="https://youtu.be/tEU0y-BDi5w">Running OpenSUSE Linux on the Pinephone (Braveheart)</a>. <em>I still did not try OpenSUSE myself, but it does not seem to bad.</em></li>
<li>Howto: Digital Privacy & Infosec: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdx-vp1doB0">Pinephone (Mobian Linux) Video/Audio Proof Phone Calls Do Work Both Incoming/Outgoing</a>. <em>This video may seem strange, but maybe it helps some people believing me that this stuff is incredibly hard to demo while maintaining privacy.</em></li>
<li>Howto: Digital Privacy & Infosec: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhgQk6wYYeg">Pinephone Mobian Inkscape + Camera + Firefox, Gpodder, SMS/Phone/Cell Data/Wifi/Hotspot All Working</a></li>
<li>sadwesv: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P76lQX70iI">Accelerated video decoding on Pinephone using gstreamer 0.18 and cedrus</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyRm8kccyG4">Pinephone playing 1440p h264 encoded video to external display</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHOgVmxH_dA">Pinephone: 1080p@60 video playback scaled to 1440p@60 display</a>. <em>Megi published a couple of video showing promising progress with regard to video acceleration on the PinePhone. Looks great!</em></li>
<li>Josh Moore: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ewLsIjqao">Pine64 PinePhone: Linux Users Remain a Persecuted Minority (For Now)</a>. <em>The video title is weird, this is just a negative review.</em></li>
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<h4 id="android-corner">Android Corner</h4>
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<li>HomebrewXS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbqzMXsnEEA">How to install Android 11 on PinePhone</a></li>
<li>HomebrewXS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Oqlwb2iLo">Android 11 on PinePhone, customizing and installing apps</a></li>
<li>Purism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAk72UnwU4E">Anbox on the Librem 5</a>. <em>This is a great demo of Anbox, not showing all the pain I showed in my videos. Please note that they are usinghttps://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-alpha1-with-lomiri-pinephone/26454 virtboard here, which is a terrible method of text input even on the slightly larger PinePhone.</em></li>
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<h4 id="dev-streaming-corner">Dev streaming corner</h4>
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<li>Marius Gripsgård: <a href="https://youtu.be/SJ_K6XFRk84">Hacking on Lomiri: Overview</a>. <em>A longer stream for people who want to help the development of Lomiri (a.k.a. Unity 8)</em></li>
<li>Bits inside by René Rebe: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AneXavrp8MA">t2 ARM64 Linux on a Pine64 Pinephone</a>. </li>
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<h4 id="gaming-corner">Gaming corner</h4>
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<li>Doctor Cranium: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUS3bg3l6XU">Quake on Pinephone</a></li>
<li>Iron Oxidizer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nICNyCosbCU">PinePhone playing Super Mario 64 natively at 30fps</a></li>
<li>Danct12: <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDanct12/status/1306988588773515264">Undertale on the PinePhone</a></li>
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<h4 id="privacy-corner">Privacy corner</h4>
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<li>Rob Braxman Tech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTC28AWnCyk">Privacy. That's LinuxPhone. True? False?</a></li>
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<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
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<li>I finally migrated my blog over to different hosting. It still uses Jekyll, but should be GDPR compliant now. Sadly, this will negatively impact my GitHub activity statistics. ;-)</li>
<li>On friday I received my postmarketOS CE convergence package PinePhone and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2w0p_gzpds">made an unboxing video</a>.</li>
<li>I tried to build some more software. <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Social">Social</a> took long to build, but I could not authorize it to use it with my Mastodon account. Also, I build GNOME Maps 3.38, which <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/104888229662272223">works a lot better on the PinePhone than the previous version</a>. What's notable: The new PinePhone ran a lot cooler than my UBports CE while building these apps.</li>
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<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
<p>The link to my Lomiri video, the Other Hardware section and last Worth Reading link were added after initial publication on Monday, September 21st at 8:14 AM CEST.</p>
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