#postmarketOS just landed the last MR needed to make the #libcamera + #PipeWire camera stack work on the #Librem5 and #PinePhone by default, using the new software ISP shipped in libcamera 0.3.
So if you have such a device: just update and go install apps like Snapshot, Warp, Decoder etc. You can even use it with Firefox and - very soon - Chromium.
Note that this does not replace #megapixels or #millipixels - those continue to be the default camera apps.
Note that with all of this in place, camera support on a lot of other devices is in close reach. For example the #OnePlus6 and #SHIFT6mq should only need kernel patches enabling the camera sensors. The softwareISP should then - at least in theory - "just work". Well, fingers crossed :)
P.S.: the one device where this already worked is the #PinePhonePro - but until recently it broke audio. That was also fixed in the process.
I just posted a short tutorial on setting up a simple #LLM on your #oneplus6 running #postmarketOS . The LLM (7b alpaca in this case) is not terribly accurate but possibly useful in some cases.
Warning! You phone will get hot. I haven't tested it long enough to know if it will harm your device, but do be careful.
Oh! I have a website now! Wow! My history with websites is hit and miss, so enjoy it while it lasts. I have half a dozen posts in the works already.
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.
#Apple doing it's best to disallow alternative app stores on #iOS despite EU ruling. #Google gearing up to ban sideloading apps on #Android in Singapore.
I'm unable to fix my #oneplus6 with the Windows tools. I can install the #qualcomm driver and the device is detected by windows but not in the msm tool (wrong COM port) so I can't reinstall #postmarketos nor the original #firmware. Any advice? I don't want to buy another phone again 😕
My first week of daily driving pmOS edge, or: "Having your dogfood and eating it too"
Intro
I got a Oneplus 6 2.5 years ago, to play around with Linux on mobile. My other phone, an old Android, partially broke its screen last fall. The writing was on the wall, as the cracks crept ever further. Last week it was no longer usable, as the screen began sensing touch inputs erratically, without being touched.
Camera on the #Oneplus6 doesn't work yet. I love documenting my day in photos, saving and sharing them with my family. I feel the loss.
#Flare (the Signal Messenger on Linux app) has only partial support for being the main Signal client, i.e. without being connected to an Android phone. Buut the mode is experimental and difficult to enable. There's a workaround using signal-cli, but signal-cli in #AlpineLinux is only built for x86_64. (for now)
@dylanvanassche has done an incredible amount of reverse engineering work to enable sensor support for SDM845 devices in #postmarketOS! 🎉 🎉 🎉
The accelerometer (auto screen rotation), ambient light sensor (auto-brightness), and compass now work properly on phones like the #OnePlus6 and #SHIFT6mq! Amazing work!!!
I just installed #PostmarketOs with #Posh on the #OnePlus6 phone.
First impressions:
🔵 I expected GTK3+ apps more responsive and more adapted to mobile screen.
🔵 Touch gestures are often misinterpreted - swipes recognized as click and so on
🔵 Its very laggy
🚀 Check out PaperPlane, a sleek Telegram client for Linux! Now available on Flathub beta. For those rocking PostmarketOS on devices like OnePlus 6T, it's a great way to keep your Telegram chats going on your Linux phone! 📱✉️ https://github.com/paper-plane-developers/paper-plane
Going to run fwupdmgr update on my ThinkPad Gen 1 P14s that's got an encrypted filesystem so fingers crossed I'm still here after hitting the enter key. 🙃
@ukscone Hahaha. I've obvs my ThinkPad and my #PineBookPro a random Toshiba laptop for testing stuff on. I've also 2 pi 4's as servers and a full blown server too. Oh lets not forget my #Pinephone and #PinephonePro and my #OnePlus6 and 6T 😂
I even bought a Pico just so I could build my own TKL board with oled running on kmk. I just can't help myself.
I was so intrigued by #GNOME on mobile phones at #LAS2023 that I bought this beauty.
Are there any ready-to-use images with GNOME Shell (ideally) or Phosh for #oneplus6?