It's almost three years after the first weekly update (stay tuned for a look back on tuesday (or help with it beforehand :) ), and we have a new Linux Phone offering by Purism that feels quite familiar.

PSA: If you still use Twitter actively, please help with collecting interesting/relevant content! _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.

Commentary in italics.

Hardware

  • Purism: Introducing the Liberty Phone. 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.

Software

Gnome Ecosystem

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Ubuntu Touch

Nemo Mobile

Kernel

Matrix

Releases

Worth Noting

Worth Reading

Worth Watching

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!