Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (43/2022): An impressive Gadget

Also: Progress reports by Mobian, Manjaro and Nemo Mobile, a nice video on SqueakPhone and a lot of the usual!

Commentary in italics.

Hardware

Clockwork uConsole: A 5" plus keyboard handheld device, wide choice of SoCs (Rockchip RK3399 (A-06), Broadcom BCM2711 (RPI-CM4 Lite), AllWinner H6 (A-04) or D1 (R01), an optional LTE module, starting at USD 139 - likely quite useless, but also a hell of a gadget. So far I've managed to keep myself from pre-ordering one.
- MobileLinux: Clockwork's uConsole is a modular portable computer for $139 and up, RaspPi CM4 and 4G connection available as options

Software progress

Sailfish OS

Distributions

Mobian Blog: These... past 4 months in Mobian: July - October 2022
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Nokia N900: keyboard mapping broken
glodroid_manifest (GitHub): GloDroid v0.8.1
Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Beta 13 5.26!
Manjaro Blog: October 2022 in Manjaro ARM
Mobile NixOS: PinePhone got a flashable installer image that allows you to setup FDE and choose between Phosh or Plasma. ALL CAPS NICE!

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2022-10-28

Worth noting

Guido Günther: "Devices with notches and rounded corners using #phosh so far have to tweak CSS to move the clock out of center (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/issues/552). I've experimented with a GSetting to just move the whole panel down a bit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1158
MobileLinux: Running Ubuntu 22.10 w/ Kernel 6.0+ on my PinePhone Pro because why not.
r/PinePhone: Not booting on Micro SD. Not news, but maybe helpful for people using Tow-Boot on the OG PinePhone.
r/PinePhoneOfficial: PinePhone and LoRa?. If you've played with the PinePhone LoRa back-cover and have something to share, OP and I would certainly love to hear about it! (If you don't use reddit, you can use me as an email relay!)
Ha-NeuerSoftware on Twitter: "Ha-NeuOS is a new OS for the #PinePhone Pro! It’s based on GNOME Shell and will feature new apps and more! Stay tuned for more information.". I love the smell of vaporware in the morning! - Just kidding, looking forward for more info!

Worth reading

Martijn Braam: Automated Phone Testing pt.5
Lup Yuen Lee: Rendering PinePhone's Display (DE and TCON0)
Purism: Kerberos authentication on the Librem 5. Also on Guido's blog.
TuxPhones.com: Vanilla OS offers an innovative, modernized "post-Debian" experience
Neil Brown: RSS as my default web browser (for some stuff)
Rafael Caricio: A brief introduction to GStreamer

Worth watching

Jacob David Cunningham: Pinephone Pro powered docks (USB-C to HDMI with PD)
Jacob David Cunningham: Creating a React PWA with Pinephone Pro
Equareo: Ubuntu touch fairphone 4
Jaack: Operating System (OS) other than Android & iOS
agar002: Synit and SqueakPhone demo, 29 October 2022.
u/MarkG_108: A screen recording of Mobian, done using the program wf-recorder (4 minutes)
The Linux Experiment: MANJARO has a BIG PROBLEM

Thanks

Huge thanks to synQun for contributing to this installment of the Weekly Update and also to Plata for a nifty set of Python scripts that speeds up collecting links from feeds by a lot.

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PS: In case you are wondering about the title ...

PPS: This one has (once again) less headlines - what do you think?