So far you had to pull out #phosh's top and bottom bar quiet a bit to make it unfold. That's kind of o.k. on 📱 like the #Librem5 or #PinePhone but can be cumbersome on larger phones like the #OnePlus6T or tablets like the #Librem11. I've put out an MR for #phoc which adds a fling #gesture so you can also fold/unfold with a fast swipe. Here's a short video demoing this for different screen sizes:
Whenever I have to deal with #LinuxMobile on devices that formerly ran android I realize how super simple things like flashing and debugging are on the #Librem5 compared to that.
No odd partition schemes, no super sensitive boot loader that gives up on the first glitch. Just #uboot and if all else fails #jumpdrive.
Pine64 is under the thumb of the CCP, and allegedly binds all orders to the laws of Malaysia as well. nope.avi
That's the thing. There are several Linux phones, and pretty much all of them seem to have something seriously alarming or prohibitive about them or their vendor. For Purism, it's price. For Pine64, it's the aforementioned.
@argv_minus_one I guess besides being lucky and getting a cheap used (or maybe never used because it didn't meet expectations) device there's little options atm. I hope prices go down as adoption grows.
I needed #Rust bindings for an app to interact with #feedbackd to submit #haptic feedback. Here's the generated bindings for libfeedback in case someone else needs it too:
I remember how nervous I was when (in early 2020) I went to the post office with my #Librem5 📱 to drop off a 📦 and present the barcode on the phone. (Having previously scp'ed the pdf to the phone to show it in evince).
Would the 🔋 last? Would it overheat? Would the display stack hold? It worked.
Nowadays I don't spend a thought: Fill in the data on my laptop, save the pdf, have it synced automatically via #syncthing to #phosh's ticket-box folder and show it at the counter. ✅
@agx It's amazing how far you and the rest of the community have brought the ecosystem.
I had a fairly substantial international commute the other day involving a car (BT audio, Lollypop, Puremaps), train (Firefox to activate my ticket), and finally the venue (Syncthing'd ticket PDF via login-screen plugin). Battery was not a concern.
It's also really neat how much better GPS has gotten. Positioning error occasionally spiked, but it tracked my position almost perfectly.
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.
@pavel phosh or rather phoc is pretty lightweight in that regard. I'd try a terminal like foot on the PP.
On the Librem5 the issue is that we don't use the advanced features of the external display controller (DCSS) like texture comression (which is a driver limitation in the kernel / mesa) so memory bandwidth becomes tight when driving both displays and hence things can become laggy.
While we try to find a suitable place for the clock in phosh's top bar when notches are present (since 0.29.0) we didn't take rounded corners into account as most of the time the left and right padding would be enough.
With more devices like the #fairphone5 and #xiaomi daisy showing up as being used with #phosh we need to care about that too:
I kept unlocking the 📱 a lot to check a cars charging status. Using #phosh's launcher-box lockscreen-plugin and the LauncherEntry DBus protocol we can simplify that and have the information easily accessible:
If you're using #phosh in docked mode a lot and (like me) play videos while doing other things then upcoming changes in #phoc to have apps always-on-top and keybindings to move windows into screen corners might be helpful:
please don't make having access to Google's or Apple's app stores to use your products a requirement.
This locks so many of us out because we either don't have a compatible device or the device doesn't have the software to access these services (like google play services).
@agx
Appealing to sociopathic entities who follow the interests of owners above all is pointless. Best case is a temporary shift while the positive PR is judged financially preferable.
If we want to fix these corporations we have to bypass them, which means delivering better products and services, and helping people move.
Some try to improve regulation, tackle the monopolies etc, which is good, but will be far more effective if we also have better alternatives.
@agx You configured Liberapay to only allow payments via Paypal. Did you consider adding donating via SEPA payment, which is much more privacy friendly than using Paypal?