With everything going on in the world, I take joy from the small things. Today, that happens to be controlling GNOME podcasts on pmOS with my PineTime. Amazing work devs!
Seriously though, is there such a thing as a Linux developer appreciation day?
#sxmo#linuxmobile news:
i fixed the wifi-sec hotspot creation bug, added a 'GSM Disable' entry and a 'Wifi Credentials' to show pw in text and qr-code of the connected wifi or hotspot.
and:
i decided to stop messing with sourcehut, #git send-email and upstream, for fuck sake, its so demotivating! to which email address? why did it not only send the last commit? where is it gone?
i prefer to use my time for features/fixes and to document them, not to messup pipelines of others....
on my #linuxmobile#op6 i can now select anything on the screen and it will ocr the text, copy it to the clipboard and read it out loud for me. to start it, there is a button on the keyboard 😎
Wrote a blog post about the first two months of my #pinephone Pro usage as a PDA and how I got around solving some initial hardware problems (spoiler: read the manual, then asked the support team).
There is a call here for small projects by #NLnet for free and open source hardware, software and open access scientific papers. Perhaps you could get some fund to port your favorite Linux mobile distribution to some phone?
It is beautiful(the colours and everything). Hopefully, One day I will install #B2G on #pmOS on my phone. But now I haven't got enough resources(time and effort) to port different stock apps to it to have free alternatives of them.
I think #LinuxMobile needs its dedicated phone. A company which puts resources into having a #LinuxMobile phone not porting pmOS to existing hardware.
A friend of mine gave me a bunch of old phones he had lying around, and one of them (a Samsung Galaxy A3 from 2015) is supported by postmarketOS! I am now the proud owner of a Linux phone! 🚀🎉🚀
Finally a native #Wallet application for Linux mobile 🎉 . #fWallet got just merged into #Alpine testing, looking forwards to for feedback from #pmos users !
@craftyguy Great update. Thanks for taking the time to write it up.
I recently tried to install #pmOS on my Surface Go 1st gen. It has the potential to be a great x84_64 device for pmOS but flashing to the onboard eMMC is not as straight forward as I had hoped. I think I tried three different ways but I never got it to boot. That was over a month ago though, so I may try again given all the recent developments. In the long term, a USB installer for x86_64 devices would be 👍️.
In praise of the @postmarketOS release upgrade package: postmarketos-release-upgrade
It's a really solid package.
I had some initial errors in updating the #pmos release on my op6 from v23.06 to v23.12 and it failed to generate initramfs.
postmarketos-release-upgrade script picked up the error and auto magically fixed it (with apk fix) so the release upgrade ended up completing properly.
Not having to fix a system after a release upgrade is quality of life :)
I am now supporting @postmarketOS with 2,50€ each month. It's not much, but every little bit helps. I do believe what they do is groundbreaking work and immensely important to the future of open source software, and reducung electronic waste in the infamous mobile sector. I also just like it.
. @linmob Thanks to this, I now know that the #PinephonePro on #pmOS has a working camera app with Snapshot! Thank you! I'm not prepared to use flatpack, so it's great that it is packaged regularly now. Only drawback is that only the front camera works, but that's better than no camera.
Goal is automatic snapshots in #PostmarketOS, with automatic rollback if something goes awry.
This increases resistance to b0rking for all devices supporting #btrfs, and makes it more feasible to use a phone running #pmOS edge on the daily.
It's basically my first time packaging, so I appreciate input :blobfoxdealwithitfingerguns: