Glad I have a Librem 5 phone with hardware kill switches - France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Citizens' Phones
https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-camera-gps-1850609772 #purism #librem5 #privacy #security
@Phaserune @devrtz @purism see https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/librem5-dev-tools/-/blob/master/l5-fetch-next in l5-devscripts - note that this is intended for people who want to check MRs currently under review so you want to follow the MRs that are tracked too (see e.g. /usr/share/doc/phosh/changelog.Debian.gz) and e.g. https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh-next
We want that bit of extra care/time before releasing into byzantium (to all users). New packages are in #PureOS landing already.
You can always run phosh-next if you want new stuff sooner and help testing MRs (but need to be sure you know how to recover)
phosh 0.29.0 is out 🚀📱:
This release brings Improved audio device selection, notifications for ongoing calls, a new sensors panel (thanks @devrtz) suspend from system menu (thanks undef) and more!
Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.29.0/
#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux
This week marks 18 months since I have been using a #librem5 as a daily driver. The first few months were probably the roughest, but I have not needed to use Android at all in those 18 months.
Today, I actually find it quite useable! It just works as a phone, and I can do everything I used to do on my Android Phone on it.
This week I will be on a conference in Italy only using the #Librem5.
The last few weeks with the L5 gave me enough confidence that I think this should work.
Thanks to the lockscreen PDF plugin train and conference tickets are quickly accessible, all my email accounts from work I can access with Geary and the camera is good enough to take notes of some slides.
@eccentricShaft @kop316 Just to fight the disingenuous: I can fully subscribe to what Chris said there and can add games, giving talks using the phones usb-c output for DP, playing music not only with headphones but also car audio systems via BT (including song information in the cars dash), …
I wouldn't say we have still work to do but who hasn't? This might still be a niche compared to proprietary mobile OSes but there's plenty of people using phones like the #librem5 as daily drivers.
@awai @kop316 @marcellinusme Add to that the fact that many Android apps don't even bother to start when they hit a non-vendor Android claiming it has been "rooted". Same story when you want to run without google play services.
@kop316 @marcellinusme Also an important point to some of us: AOSP is open-source, but its development is quite locked down, and only serves Google's interests... Working on a Linux-based distro gives developers more leverage to contribute and shape the ecosystem in a way that benefits the community, rather than one single company
call notification MR: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1281
vertical space MR: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1280
3️⃣ /3️⃣
While at that I put notifications and media player widget into the same
scrolled window and have that use more vertical space so things are (hopefully) less clumsy to use.
2️⃣ /3️⃣
While one could get back to an ongoing call on #phosh's lockscreen by swiping
to the right it wasn't clear if there was still a call ongoing. This will be
improved by showing a notification on the lockscreen making it hard to miss (and which we can likely also use to switch between calls once the calls app supports it):
1️⃣ /3️⃣
phosh MR: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1277
pipewire MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/merge_requests/1646
(sorry for the repost, had to convert video as it otherwise wouldn't be picked up correctly)
Simplifying audio device selection in #phosh (which also needs a tweak in #pipewire to get nice icons on #LinuxMobile too):
@linmob Congratulations. I enjoy reading it every week!
Mit einer Freie-Software-Office- und Kollaborations-Suite für Behörden will die Bundesregierung den Zielen des Koalitionsvertrags näher kommen. Doch ein genauerer Blick auf das Projekt wirft Fragen auf.
#PublicCode #FreeSoftware
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230606-01.html
Biggest downside of running #phosh on my phone and laptop: you sometimes try to swipe away notifications on the laptop although it's not a touchscreen 😜 - just happened again .
#OpenCL was added to https://mesamatrix.net/ :3
thanks Nora!
@okennedy yeah, as @devrtz says: they were around all along and can be enabled via https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/wikis/Configuration#under-smpuriphosh - it'd wait for 0.29.0 though as the lack of an animation could make the switching a bit surprising