Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (04/2024): Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 + FOSDEM preparations

With FOSDEM 2024 approaching, let's have another roundup: Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA 4, gmobile 0.0.5, an update on progress in Nemo Mobile (plus a Qt6-based image to try out), a healthy "Worth Reading" section, another episode of the postmarketOS podcast and sadly not much of a video section.

Also, one ask: Please part-take in this pseudo-survey - thank you!

Commentary in italics.

Software

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #132 Bottom Sheets
a11y: Automated testing of GNOME accessibility features
Phoronix: GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols This may help with convergence on devices without USB-C DP alt mode!

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This week in KDE: everything everywhere all at once edition
Phoronix: KDE Lands More Performance Improvements & Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 6.0 Next Month

Sailfish OS

flypig's Gecko log: Day 149
flypig's Gecko log: Day 148
flypig's Gecko log: Day 147
flypig's Gecko log: Day 146
flypig's Gecko log: Day 145

Apps

adampigg: More great work by @jmlich bringing @AsteroidOS support to #Amazfish
Call, browse contacts or call history in Phosh deskop enviroment faster - Fastcalls immediately brings you features that are not available without this workaround (note that it is workaround - hope is that gnome ecosystem will make this unnecessary). Thanks the person that contributed this!

Kernel

phone-devel: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Add GPU support to MSM8953 SoC
phone-devel: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8953: add reset for display subsystem

Stack

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-01-26

Worth Noting

PureTryOut: "Did you know #postmarketOS has been shipping nightly built #Plasma6 packages for a while now?…"
LinuxPhoneApps.org: "Interim Survey for a #LinuxMobile FOSDEM talk (https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3303-the-linux-phone-app-ecosystem/), also for #UbuntuTouch and #SailfishOS users…" - LinuxRocks.Online
David Llewellyn-Jones: "Less than a week to go! Come v…"
scops: "just a little shot of my current little #mobileLinux setup: a #ClockworkPi #uConsole connected to an old #Motorola #Lapdock…"
Federico Izzo: "I ported #postmarketOS to the #clockworkpi #uConsole (CM4)! …"
Codemaster Freders: "Building Snaps right from within Tide for Linux, coming with version 2.0.…"
kelbot ◖⎚∠⎚◗: "Beepy PDA is starting to take shape. BeepDA? BDA? PBA? …"
devendoring software guy: #Snapshot, the new #GNOME 45 camera app is in #Debian now. It was a lot of to work to get it in since we build unvendored. This meant packaging ~ 10 new libraries beforehand.
Volker Krause: "The #OSM indoor routing prototype for #KDE Itinerary is meanwhile running integrated in our map renderer.…"
nanosocial: "holy shit mozilla has a new issue tracker documenting all of the ways that apple, google, and microsoft purposefully put third party browsers at a disadvantage and is calling for action …"
Call, browse contacts or call history in Phosh deskop enviroment faster - Fastcalls immediately brings you features that are not available without this workaround (note that it is workaround - hope is that gnome ecosystem will make this unnecessary). Thanks the person that contributed this!
PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): Review of PinePhone after daily driving it for about a month (TLDR: Great device, not a great phone)
Purism community: Signal App not usable - Flare preferred
Purism community: 3D printed stand for desk
Purism community: Install/Running programs from external media
@linmob@fosstodon.org: If someone wants to have fun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145701Could use some more #LinuxMobile experience reports.
@linmob@fosstodon.org: I've been wanting to write a "Looking forward to 2024" post, that among a little preview focuses on gaining contributors for linmob.net and increasing the bus factor.I should have forced myself to do write this before the day job restarted, but well, lumbago ... So, if you come across a story or a video that's relevant, please remember the pad: https://pad.hacc.space/7yCLy5a9QyOLWusIFiTt9A?edit#

Worth Reading

Martijn Braam: Fixing the Megapixels sensor linearization
Hans Goede: A fully open source stack for MIPI cameras
Flathub: Over One Million Active Users, and Growing
Pablo Yoyoista: On how to fork a GNOME Core app without meaning to do so
- Lemmy - linuxphones: On how to fork a GNOME Core app without meaning to do so – GNOME adventures in mobile
Yaky's blog: PinePhone - Post daily driver review
The KosmosGhost Site: So, You Bricked PmOS
jyn: the rust project has a burnout problem
Purism: Replacing the Screen of Your Librem 5
Purism: Purism Liberty Phone to be Featured in Orpheum Films Collaboration
Purism: Easy App Development: Text Forwarding
Purism: Retain Your Control and Customize Everything with Modular Software
Neil Brown: Why I don't care about website/blog stats. Same here.

Worth Listening

postmarketOS Podcast: #37 Clayton goes full-time, v23.12, smart speakers, musl locales

Worth Watching

Purism: Retain Your Control and Customize Everything with Modular Software
Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E401: Sailfish OS app "BikeMe"
UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 132 No time to manually look for videos this time, sorry!

Thanks

Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.

Something missing? Want to contribute?

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 the hedgedoc pad for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!