So my Pixel 3a's #LineageOS install decided to brick itself today... any cool ROMs to try out that support AMOLED mode?
I was also considering mobile Linux, though I do really depend on Discord notifications due to my university; unsure how well that would work...
My 72 year old mother is in a hospital right now. I had to make and take all sorts of phone calls lately, just to manage things like insurance and care facilities.
It got me thinking about Linux phones. In this current time I couldn't use something like @postmarketOS because even missing a single call can cause huge difficulties and delays right now.
I really hope calls can be made more reliable in the future. 🙏
If that is not happening, then why, what is stopping you?
The (wrong and silly) assumption that everyone must use Google/Apple phones is expected from Big Tech these days but you are supposed to be among the good guys. Please help us be free from Google/Apple 🙂
Is there anyone from the #LinuxMobile#mobileLinux community living in Berlin with a working #Librem5 battery who would be willing to help me booting and updating my device once? Unfortunately my battery is dead and I haven't found out how to quickly get a new one - however IIUC it would boot without battery once updated to a newer firmware (https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-does-not-boot-without-battery/16954/11).
Randomly stumbled upon Sean Moss-Pultz's short post about Openmoko, featuring some photos of a working prototype of GTA03/3D7K, the cancelled successor to the Neo Freerunner that was being worked on around 2009. So far I have only heard verbal descriptions of how it looked like (usually described as "a soap dish" 😂) and seen photos of some casing mock-ups and bare PCBs, but never a complete device.
In-line with my previous blog post about #Flatpak in #Lomiri I have been working on getting the core Lomiri click apps packaged for Flatpak.
Thankfully, there have been upstream efforts to do this already! Sadly it seems that the packages are out of date and barely functional, but it is something to work with!
So far I have the Lomiri calculator, clock, and filemanager running.
"April 15th, 2024, in the Top 10 Most Secure Mobile Phones to Buy in 2024, the cybersecurity-focused firm Efani, has ranked Purism Librem 5 as as the #1 most secure phone for the year 2024."
And yes, I have a #Librem5#Linux phone. I'm using it as my daily phone for nearly two years. It is great to be totally in control of your phone, and to have total #freedom to use your phone the way you like.
Does anyone want to help me design a logo and/or icon for #BitRitter?
If i draw it myself, i'd rather have no icon haha.
It is a password manager frontend for #MobileLinux (and desktops aswell).
Boosts welcome. :boostRequest: #FediArt
If there is a hashtag for such things, let me know aswell.
News from #BitRitter: https://codeberg.org/Chfkch/bitritter
Account creation is now possible via the app, no need to store credentials on disk.
This was a huge step towards the release of the first beta.
Basic usage is covered in my eyes, now i have to polish things up a bit and test integration in distros and on devices.
Got a lot of help from the community and the #Relm4 channel.
If you want to try now, hit me up if you have problems. #LinuxMobile#MobileLinux#RustLang
My #Fairphone3 arrives on Wednesday. Looking forward to running #UbuntuTouch on it as a test case for viability of ethical phone for kids that helps dodge the worst of mobile apps, behaviours, tracking etc
My initial response is: brilliant. The phone is great (kudos to #Fairphone), and the software works perfectly. Nice app store. Sim card worked flawlessly. Wifi connected immediately. I am very happy. Hope to have time in the next week or two to write a proper blog post about the (potential) importance of #MobileLinux in keeping kids safe(r) when using mobile phones @ubports
I gave KDE Plasma Mobile another go. It improved a LOT over the past few months. No crashes yet! It's a lot more stable now. Although not as stable as Phosh.
I like their whole "just copy Android" philosophy. Everything feels familiar and intuitive. I might keep it like this.
Decided to try to setup a blog for my development. For my first piece I decided to recount the development history of #Lomiri as a frame for my future posts.
Attention people in Southern California! KDE is coming to town (to set up a booth a SCaLE21x).
Come visit us at @socallinuxexpo at the Pasadena Convention Center, enjoy some talks, meet KDE contributors, marvel at our technological... er... marvels, and have a good time!
and i use #sailfishos as a daily driver, have done so for years, full functionality and everyday #mobilelinux with a great community, but I still tinker and love to try other Android-free ideas.