Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (17/2024): Funding for Cell Broadcasting support
Table of Contents
Phosh receive a grant to implement Cell Broadcasting support, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, experimental video recording in Megapixels on PinePhone (AllWinner A64, non-Pro) news from SculptOS and more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- David Clubb: Linux mobile; safer phones for children?
- Aaron's Blog: Mobile Linux (Phosh) in 2024
- Purism: Purism Differentiator Series, Part 14: Surveillance Capitalism
- Purism: Purism Differentiator Series, Part 13: Modularity & Right to Repair
- Purism: Unexplained Potatoes
- Purism: Purism Differentiator Series, Part 12: Secure Supply Chain and Made in USA Electronics
Worth Watching
- UBports: UBports Q&A 139 Work towards Ubuntu Touch 24.04, updates on the WPE WebKit based browser and more!
- Lamouseo2: Does Ubuntu Touch Work on Alcatels?
- totodesbois100: Contact sync between Ubuntu Touch and Radicale CardDav server demo
- Charbax: Linux on Snapdragon X Elite Laptop with Tim Benton at the Linaro booth at Embedded World 2024 #ew24
Worth Noting
- Mobian: "Notes on the quest to get the alarm clock to wake up the phone from suspend: this executed as user mobian actually resumed a L5: …"
- Pavel Machek: #pinephone + #megapixels .Code is public, git@gitlab.com:tui/Megapixels2.git but not yet ready for wider testing.
- Purism community: Symbols for network... in status bar
- Purism community: Librem 5 Battery Life 2024
- Purism community: Minimize squeekboard if a USB or Bluetooth keyboard/ a keyboard & mouse combo is active
- #LinuxMobile: What is the difference between Android and Linux Mobile?Android is getting worse.Linux Mobile is getting better!#android #linuxmobile
- #LinuxMobile: According to the Guardian there's great potential for #LinuxMobile :Phttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/27/the-boring-phone-stressed-out-gen-z-ditch-smartphones-for-dumbphones
- #LinuxMobile: @maltimore Yeah, I should probably add that some app/stacks do better than others, which is one reason why you see vastly different performance, often also depending on the used HW.For most devices, the work here will mainly impact battery life. But especially in the #LinuxMobile and low-end area the difference is quite visible. I.e. devices like the #librem5 or #PinePhonePro can play 4k videos just fine and shouldn't heat up when doing so, just like other phones.
- #LinuxMobile: on my #linuxmobile #op6 i can now select anything on the screen and it will ocr the text, copy it to the clipboard and read it out loud for me. to start it, there is a button on the keyboard 😎the howto is here:https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/User:Magdesign#Offline_Text-to-Speechi am still wondering how 'the real' screenreaders do the magic#pmos
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #145 Quality Over Quantity
- GNOME Shell & Mutter: Notifications in 46 and beyond
- ramcq: Update from the GNOME board
- chergert: Collaborating on Builder
- Phoronix: GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default
- Phoronix: GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit
- Phoronix: Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd
Phosh
- Phosh (Mastodon): Very, very happy that our proposal for adding #cellbroadcast support to #ModemManager and #Phosh was accepted by @NGIZero : https://nlnet.nl/project/SMS-CB 🗼 〰️ 📱#LinuxMobile
- Phosh (Mastodon): A new release of #feedbackd is out (https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd/-/releases/v0.3.0). Besides some cleanups the user visible change is that "blessed" apps can now override the global feedback level so e.g. your alarm clock can ring even when the phone is in quiet mode (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1398)#LinuxMobile
- Guido Günther: Laptop died yesterday but thanks to the #Librem5, the Baseus Dock, an HDMI Screen, a USB keyboard and #Phosh's docked mode I have access to most of the things via my phone.#nitrokey helps a lot as that means I have my ssh keys available by just plugging it in.Took me about 15min to notice that I didn't even plug a mouse in.#LinuxMobile
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: megabytes and gigabytes for all
- Nate Graham: Berlin mega-sprint recap
- Volker Krause: KDE Accessibility, Sustainability and Automation Sprint
- David's Blog: Goals Sprint 2024
- broulik: Contributing is more than just code
- TSDgeos: KDE Gear 24.05 branches created
Sxmo
- @pocketvj@fosstodon.org: #sxmo #linuxmobile news:fixed the wifi-sec hotspot creation bug, added 'GSM Disable', 'SSH Disable' and a 'Wifi Credentials' to show pw in text and qr-code of the connected wifi or hotspot.and:i decided to stop messing with sourcehut, #git send-email and upstream, for fuck sake, its so demotivating! to which email address? why did it not only send the last commit? where is it gone? i prefer to use my time for features/fixes and to document them, not to messup pipelines of others....
- @pocketvj@fosstodon.org: on my #linuxmobile #op6 i can now select anything on the screen and it will ocr the text, copy it to the clipboard and read it out loud for me. to start it, there is a button on the keyboard 😎the howto is here:https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/User:Magdesign#Offline_Text-to-Speechi am still wondering how 'the real' screenreaders do the magic#pmos
- #sxmo: Mini #linuxmobile @postmarketOS #sxmo "work"station :P
Sailfish OS
- adampigg: #sailfishos #ofono Day 25 - Fixing up DTMFhttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-25#pinephone
- adampigg: #SailfishOS #Ofono Day 24 - Partial Success!https://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-24@PINE64 #pinephone
- adampigg: #sailfishos #ofono Day 23 - Submitting V5https://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-23
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 229
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 228
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 227
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 226
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 225
- #sailfishOS: #SailfishOS 4.4.0.72 for the #Sony #Xperia 1 and Xperia 5 has been releasedThe release includes various security updates and other bug fixes that affect all Sony adaptations taken from Jolla.The delay between the last was mostly caused by the development for the update discovery service andmy personal situation in my private live took a turn for the worst last year. The Xperia 1/5 II port also took some time of course.Get it now here:https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-os-for-sony-xperia-1-and-5/12662https://xdaforums.com/t/sailfish-os-for-sony-xperia-1-and-5-4-5-0-24.4479833
- #sailfishOS: Finally got to build latest #cURL for #sailfishos https://build.sailfishos.org/package/binaries/home:nielnielsen/curl?repository=sailfishos_latest_latest
- #sailfishOS: 110 #sailfishos packages updated https://build.sailfishos.org/project/show/home:nielnielsen
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Today is Ubuntu Touch Q&A Day
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A tomorrow 19:00 UTC
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 139 Call for Questions
Distributions
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: New SXMO-ONFIRE Tool: units
- Mobian (Mastodon): We are releasing the fix in staging and it should be available within the hour. Please make sure you upgrade to 6.6.27+librem5-2 if you are in staging (If you were using the trixie repo, no need to do anything!)EDIT: The fix is in staging now!
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: apk plugin breakage in GNOME Software and Plasma Discover
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: systemd: merge master_systemd_staging with master
- Phoronix: Fedora Miracle Spin Proposed For Fedora 41
Apps
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Fossdd: add wike to aports
- Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: Magic is the Open Source community! Some time ago, I began implementing the find-my-phone feature for #PineTime. However, I got stuck on debugging because I didn't have the devkit, only the sealed version. Fortunately, I received the #devkit for free. Even more fortunate, someone debugged my code and fixed it.https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/pull/2053
- Purism community: New app: cashbox
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] Mark qcom,ipc as deprecated in two schemas
- phone-devel: [PATCH v10 05/12] clk: mmp: Add Marvell PXA1908 APBC driver
Non-Linux
Stack
- Phoronix: GCC 14.1 Compiler Aiming For Release Around 7 May
- Phoronix: Wayland 1.23 Alpha Released With OpenBSD Support & New APIs
- Phoronix: Llamafile 0.8 Releases With LLaMA3 & Grok Support, Faster F16 Performance
- Phoronix: Rust-Based Coreutils 0.0.26 Increases Compatibility With GNU Coreutils
- Phoronix: Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes
- Phoronix: Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test
- Phoronix: Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-04-26
- Matrix.org: Post-mortem of the Matrix.org Outage
Thanks
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